Payroll Study with The Harris Poll 2021

Full Methodology

The first survey was conducted online within the United States by The Harris Poll on behalf of Paycom Aug. 24-26, 2021, among 922 adults employed full or part time. The second survey was conducted online within the United States by The Harris Poll on behalf of Paycom Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2021, among 948 adults employed full or part time.

For both surveys, results were weighted for age within gender, region, race/ethnicity, income, education and size of household where necessary to align them with their actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents’ propensity to be online.

All sample surveys and polls, whether or not they use probability sampling, are subject to multiple sources of error that are most often not possible to quantify or estimate, including sampling error, coverage error, error associated with nonresponse, error associated with question wording and response options, and post-survey weighting and adjustments. Therefore, Harris Poll avoids the words “margin of error,” as they are misleading. All that can be calculated are different possible sampling errors with different probabilities for pure, unweighted, random samples with 100% response rates. These are only theoretical because no published polls come close to this ideal. 

Respondents for this survey were selected from among those who have agreed to participate in online surveys. The data have been weighted to reflect the composition of the adult population. Because the sample is based on those who agreed to participate in our panel, no estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated.