ABSTRACT
The Professional Pricing Society (PPS) has been surveying the pricing community regularly since 1998. PPS organization acquires survey data as a free service to their members and those interested in pricing demographic trends. Since PPS is the center of the pricing discipline worldwide, the survey results are widely used as a benchmark for a variety of pricing queries includes salaries, reporting structures, career opportunities, pricing software usage and key components of job satisfaction from both positive and negative standpoints. More pricers are reporting to Marketing and Finance compared to previous surveys, with fewer reporting to Sales. The most satisfying job aspects for pricers was Increasing the Company Bottom Line with 54.4 percent of survey respondents. The highest-rated elements of job satisfaction were the effectiveness of communication within one's immediate pricing group and the amount of influence they have in determining how they carry out their job.
