Collect sensitive answers without asking who they are.

A documentation community asked its members what they earn. Thirty questions became seven sections, in any order, and none of them asks who is answering.

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Salary survey 7 sections

Finish them in any order.

Employment Contractor path

Done

Salary Confirmed by the respondent

Done

Demographics City, state, country

Open

No name or email requested

Illustrative experience

Seven sections, any order
Location as a city, not an address
The salary read back before it saves

The finished experience

Useful answers, without asking for direct identifiers.

The community got numbers good enough to negotiate against — one member used the published results to win a 30% raise — and the same form has run since with barely a change.

A good fit for
Communities surveying their own members about pay, or anything else sensitive.

1

Set the path in one question

A short intro form asks employee or contractor and passes that answer into the survey.

GP Easy Passthrough
2

Break the survey into sections

Each section is a form of its own, so respondents answer the parts that apply in any order.

GP Nested Forms
3

Ask for a city, not an address

A free snippet keeps the suggestions to cities and hides the street and postcode inputs.

GP Address Autocomplete
4

Let them check the figure

The salary is copied into a confirmation field to read back and tick before it is saved.

GP Copy Cat

Inspired by a real build

Spotlight: Building a Salary Survey with Gravity Forms February 2026 Kay Smoljak used Gravity Forms and Gravity Perks to build a survey that collects anonymous salary data, helping documentarians negotiate pay. Read the spotlight

What you’ll need.

Start with Gravity Forms. Add the capabilities this solution needs, then make the experience your own.

GP Nested Forms

Splits the survey into sections respondents complete in any order, instead of one form thirty questions long.

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GP Easy Passthrough

Carries the employee-or-contractor answer from the intro form into the survey, so nobody is asked it twice.

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GP Address Autocomplete

Suggests locations as they type; with the city snippet in place the entry keeps only city, state and country.

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GP Copy Cat

Copies the salary into a confirmation field, so the respondent reads the figure back and ticks it before the section is saved.

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Taking it further

Add these optional plugins when your project calls for more.

Optional

GC Google Sheets

Optionally sends selected response fields to your connected Google Sheet. Review the export alongside the survey’s privacy settings.

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Before you start

A short intro form to set the path, and one form per section, each capped at a single entry.
A Google API key for the address suggestions, and the free Autocomplete By City snippet to keep them city-level.
Review stored entry metadata, logs, analytics and exports. City, salary and demographic combinations can still identify someone, especially in a small group.

Get this built.

A plan covers how many of our plugins you run at once, and on how many sites. Here is what this one needs.

Required

GP Nested FormsPerks
GP Easy PassthroughPerks
GP Address AutocompletePerks
GP Copy CatPerks

Optional

GC Google SheetsConnect

Gravity Perks Pro $299 /year

4 perks need Pro — on unlimited sites.

Gravity Connect Basic $59 /year

Only if you add GC Google Sheets.

See plans for this solution

Every plan renews at the same price, and you can upgrade any time for the difference.

Make it fit
your project.

Does leaving out names make the survey anonymous?

It avoids collecting direct identifiers such as a name or email, and the location stops at the city. Disable IP storage and review other entry metadata, server logs, analytics and exports before describing the results as anonymous. Rare combinations of salary, location and demographics may still identify someone; review and aggregate results before publishing them.

Does the location go to Google?

Address suggestions send location requests to Google’s Places API using your key. Display the required Google terms and privacy links. Separately review any spreadsheet or analytics exports you enable; GC Google Sheets sends the fields you map to the connected sheet.

Why sections instead of pages?

Thirty questions with two branches in one form was the maze this build replaced. As seven sections, respondents open the ones that apply to them in whichever order they like; the community’s own verdict was “choose your own adventure”.