Give Your Company a Competitive Edge
Whether you're benchmarking your business or keeping a finger on the pulse of the industry, FMA surveys and reports provide a complete outlook on the current metal fabrication landscape. Access details on capital spending trends, salaries, hourly wages, benefits, and financial and operating metrics to measure your company’s performance against and identify opportunities for improvement.
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Salary / Wage and Benefit Survey
This tool provides crucial intel for company owners and human resource managers in the metal forming, fabricating, and processing industry. Compare your compensation packages to ensure the best chance of attracting and retaining top talent.
Now open for participation through May 4, 2024.
Survey Participation Benefits
More participation means more valuable results, so FMA offers all who fully complete the survey a substantial discount on the compiled results:
- All members who complete the survey will receive the results at no charge
- Nonmember companies who complete it may purchase the results at a discounted rate
- Final survey results for non-participants will be $419 for nonmembers and $199 for members
Survey Participation Details
The survey details employment practices, benefit packages, salary, and wage data for executive suite, office staff, and shop or production staff. Anonymous responses are compiled together and reporting comparisons are made based upon demographic similarities such as organization size, location, sales volume, area population, and type of company.
Financial Ratios and Operational Benchmarking Survey
Access comprehensive business performance data collected each year that includes liquidity, profitability, asset management, operational benchmarking, value proposition, and marketing effectiveness.
2023 data is now available!
Survey Participation Benefits
More participation means more valuable results, so FMA offers all who fully complete the survey a substantial discount on the compiled results:
- All members who complete the survey will receive the results at no charge
- Nonmember companies who complete it may purchase the results at a discounted rate
- Final survey results for non-participants will be $419 for nonmembers and $199 for members
Survey Participation Details
The responses are compiled and reported anonymously. The results are available in the fall. Participants will be able to compare their data to other companies based on the number of employees, company type, annual sales volume, geographic region, and plant size. Sources to help you complete the survey:
- Detailed income statements: month- and year-end
- Balance sheets: month- and year-end
- Quotation logs, bookings logs, invoice register
- Payroll and headcount logs
Capital Spending Forecast
This report enables you to target your marketing efforts by providing insights into the purchasing intentions of leading fabricating and forming companies. The report is compiled with a random sampling of FMA Communications subscribers that are sent a confidential survey each year.
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The report includes data from the previous year such as:
- Principal overall motives for capital spending
- Current capacity by plant size
- Projected operating level by plant size
- Projected business spending by plant size
- The types of products that capital investment was spent on
Forming and Fabricating Job Shop Consumption Report
Obtain an effective analysis of how real shops are operating in and responding to today’s economic conditions. This report provides insights on hiring, new orders, material costs, capacity utilization, and more.
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Twice a year, the survey is distributed to select subscribers of The Fabricator to obtain data on what small- to medium-sized job shops and fabricators are currently experiencing.
FMA has created this report to benefit the industry and gathers the hard-to-collect information in one place and provides it without cost.
