ERI Economic Research Institute is a leader in compensation survey data. Since 1987, we have published updated consensus reports of competitive wages and salaries covering the United States, Canada, and (now) Europe. Our cost-of-living reports cover every major city in the world for relocation applications and family expenditure budget projections.

What Compensation Surveys Do You Provide?

We are primarily a pay survey compilation and extraction service that provides market analyses via our compensation survey software. Our survey library includes thousands of privately published cost-of-living and compensation surveys published around the world.

We conduct surveys ourselves that are not already done by other research bodies. For example, we analyze Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) pay information, including proxies, 10Ks, and compensation tables covering executive compensation at public corporations. We report these data to our subscribers via our Executive Compensation Assessor^® software. This software provides unprecedented analyses of total executive compensation (cash and non-cash) in organizations whose stock is publicly traded. The Nonprofit Salary Survey Assessor™ software is the tax-exempt entities version of this compensation survey software, providing top executive pay in charities and foundations. This desktop software provides access to Form 990/PF/EZ extracts since 2000, permitting users to conduct their own surveys. This software is relied upon by federal (IRS) and state regulatory agencies, including the NY Attorney General's Office.

In the future, we will provide a Health Care Pay Assessor software to focus on the competitive wages and salaries paid in that industry alone, separate from the otherwise blended analyses we currently report in our Salary Assessor^® and Executive Compensation Assessor software. These compensation survey databases combine all public and private surveys covering every industry by SIC and NAICS code.

What Additional Compensation Survey Sources Does ERI Use?

In addition to collecting thousands of privately published compensation surveys, ERI analyzes compensation data on specific benchmark jobs from the following sources: Chambers of Commerce, trade associations, consulting firms, the IRS, and the SEC. You can view many of our survey sources by downloading a free Salary Assessor demo. Once you open this compensation survey software, click on View/Salary Surveys for a list of all surveys covering the area of interest you have specified.

Assessor Series^® software databases are designed for professional use by the compensation and Human Resource specialists for whom we are a research outsource. We license individual users rather than companies or computers, and we offer unlimited training to all licensed subscribers. For a list of online courses that provide instruction on our compensation survey software, click here. Free Online Tutorials and Conference Calls are also available to our subscribers.

What Is ERI's Reputation?

Our subscribers have included the CIA, IRS, NSA, DCAA, UN, US and Canadian militaries, and federal/state/provincial agencies. For example, the US Department of Interior uses ERI's Salary Assessor software to police contracts, ensure compliance, and assure that bid rates are based on rational pay expectations and the ability to attract employees. Human Resources and corporate managers from over 80% of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies rely on ERI research products to set their organizations' salaries, cost-of-living allowances, and relocation bonuses. In addition, compensation consultants, forensic economists, CPAs, law firms, disability carriers, vocational rehabilitation counselors, and academic researchers utilize ERI labor cost data, cost-of-living adjustment estimates, and job analysis software.

This is all we do — publish the most current and complete summary of competitive salary and cost-of-living information in fast, secure, and portable software databases that are updated every quarter. No one else offers what we offer.

How Can I Try Out ERI Compensation Survey Products?

You can download free demos of our compensation survey software from ERI's website www.erieri.com, where you can also explore our Free Compensation Resources.

Feel free to call if you have any further questions or would like to place an order. ERI Subscriber Services is available at 800.627.3697 (US/Canada) or (0044) 207.409.5060 (Europe) 24 hours each weekday.