Salaried Compensation

This survey includes recruitment and retention, benefits (healthcare, retirement, PTO, etc.), and position-specific compensation covering 35+ executive, salaried and sales positions in wholesale distribution. This survey was conduted in early 2024 among 588 wholesale distribution companies, representing 8,791 locations, of which 51 companies were foodservice distributors representing 347 locations.

The results provide foodservice distributors a better understanding of how your company’s practices compare in the job market.

Participating companies receive free, exclusive access to full results and online reporting tools that won’t be available to non-participants. An aggregate PDF report is available for-purchase to to non-participating companies.

Participant Access to Free Results:

• Go to https://compensationbenchmarking.com/IFDA
• Enter your email and click on the “Continue” button.
• Enter your password. Please note that this is the password you used when completing the survey; it is not linked to your regular IFDA website member login.
• If you don’t remember your password, click “Forgot Password?”

Participants Receive:

1. Cross-Industry Compensation & Benefits Report PDF – a report that includes compensation- and benefits-related statistics for 35+ executive, salaried and sales positions in the wholesale/distribution industry. The report includes data from hundreds of companies representing membership of 21 trade associations, including IFDA.

2. Excel Results – a non-abridged version of the survey results. The file reports the data in aggregate form and includes more data cuts than could be reasonably included in the PDF report.

3. Cross-Industry Company Compensation Report (CCR) PDF – a customized report of your company’s compensation and benefits data shown alongside the appropriate cross-industry comparatives. This report provides you an easy means for interpreting the results.

4. Online Reporting Tools – Interactive online reporting tools that allow users to filter the results by their own selected criteria to build your own report.

IFDA again engaged Industry Insights, an independent research company, to collect and compile the results of the study.  Industry Insights has more than 40 years of experience in conducting confidential, compensation benchmarking studies of this nature. The survey is hosted and maintained on a secure server outside of IFDA’s website to keep your data safe and confidential.

For questions about IFDA’s compensation surveys and other research, contact Annika Stensson at astensson@ifdaonline.org.