Each year, Colorado Municipal League asks our members to complete a survey of employee salary, wages, and benefit data. The survey is offered in partnership with TechNet, who maintains the online Compensation Survey System.

All compensation data can now be found exclusively in the Compensation Survey System from TechNet. On the site, users can create custom reports and export them to Excel files for further analysis. 

Access to the Compensation Survey System is only available to our member municipalities, and access is approved for clerks, deputy managers, finance directors, human resources directors, or managers of a member municipality. Other municipal employees may be granted access to the system with approval from someone in one of these roles.

CML associate members that are local governments, such as counties and special districts, may subscribe to the survey system for an annual fee of $250, in addition to their associate membership fee (click here for an order form). Non-governmental associate members and nonmembers do not have access to the data.

Log into the Compensation Survey System

If you wish to access Compensation Reports from 2025 or earlier, please reach out to Maeve McHugh at mmchugh@cml.org.

Unauthorized use of the information contained in the compensation survey reports is strictly prohibited, and unauthorized use may result in legal action against you and your organization. Unauthorized use includes, but is not limited to: sharing information from the reports with any person outside of your organization; sharing information from the reports with an organization or person who is not an authorized CSS client (e.g., a CML member municipality); and selling the information.