Welcome to Sensible Surveys Help

Sensible Surveys helps organizations run wage, benefits, and compensation surveys: create the survey, invite the businesses that should respond, track who has submitted, and release aggregated results with privacy controls. This help center is written for people using the product, not developers. You can read it without signing in, and every article uses demo data only.

Start with who you are

I run surveysOwners and managers: set up the account, build a survey in the wizard, invite businesses, and launch.

I'm taking a surveyYou received an invitation email and need to sign in, answer, and submit.

I'm releasing resultsThe survey closed. Review results, set visibility, preview, and release per audience.

I'm viewing resultsViewers and subscribers: find the results shared with you and understand what safe harbor hides.

If you already know the page you are working on, use the sidebar or search. Search works well with plain language such as “invite people”, “release results”, “safe harbor”, “reminders”, or “change branding”.

Common workflows

I am setting up an account

Start with the Owner setup checklist and Roles and permissions. Then review General settings and notifications and Team members.

I am preparing a survey

Use Create and launch a survey for the five-step setup wizard, Use the survey editor for questions and sections, and Add and manage invitees for the people who will respond.

I am taking a survey

Use Take a survey as a respondent. It explains your invitation email, signing in, automatic saving, required questions, and what happens after you submit.

I am reviewing or releasing results

Use Analyze results, Understand results and safe harbor, Release results, and Manage who can see results. Results are never distributed automatically; someone releases them on purpose.

Key ideas to know

• A survey moves through four stages: draft, running, closed, and compiled. Release is a separate, deliberate action per audience.
• Invitees become survey takers when the survey launches and invitation emails go out.
• Results stay private after a survey closes until an owner or manager releases them to viewers, takers, or subscribers.
• Safe harbor hides any question answered by fewer businesses than the survey’s threshold, so no single company’s data can be identified.
• Owners and managers always see more than released audiences. Use the Released audience preview to check exactly what viewers will see.
• Compensation questions collect wage ranges per occupation, and results show aggregated regional data only.

Privacy note

Screenshots in this help center use demo accounts and sample surveys, never live customer information. Survey answers are only ever shown to released audiences as aggregates protected by safe harbor.