Abbott, Langer Association Surveys FAQ#8

QUESTION:  Where can I find more detailed pay information?

Expert users, such as Human Resource and Compensation Departments of major companies, pay consultants, contractors, and attorneys, often conducting prevailing wage analyses, typically rely on the wide-ranging and long-proven databases of ERI Economic Research Institute. ERI has been the authoritative source of current consensus competitive pay survey information for over seven thousand corporate subscribers, including over 85% of the Fortune 500 companies, and thousands of consultants, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies for three decades. Their survey analysis software is interactive and reasonably priced, for corporate and expert research use.

ERI's Salary Assessor® is an easy-to-use software program that reports "up to the present day" competitive wage, salary, and incentive survey data. Each of the over 5,000 jobs included has been studied over time (many since 1977). Analyses are derived from millions of data points gathered annually from loan and employment applicant earnings verifications, digitized public records including the US SEC, OCR of US IRS returns, SalariesReview's patented online surveys, and licensed UK, Canadian, and US salary surveys and datasets.  The Salary Assessor® is available in 2 versions – Professional (for US/Canada non-management salary planning) and Consultant (for salary planning with executive data, US/UK/EU planning, board governance, and litigation support).

ERI's Executive Compensation Assessor® reports for-profit competitive management remuneration levels with the ability to retrieve and review source documents. Each of over 500 job titles has been studied over time (many since 1977). Data are derived from 14,000 US publicly-traded corporations’ proxies and 10-K annual reports (1994 to present), 8-Ks, loan and employment applicant earnings verifications, digitized public records including the US SEC, Canadian SEDAR® Data, OCR of US IRS returns, SalariesReview's patented online surveys, and licensed UK, Canadian, and US surveys and datasets. ERI research saves subscribers time and expense, providing analyses for Board planning of direct cash (salary levels and incentives), long-term incentives, stock appreciation rights, SERPs, benefits, stock options and other executive allowances. This research represents the largest executive salary survey ever conducted, excluding ERI’s Nonprofit Comparables Assessor™ with 23 million incumbent inputs. Each is more a census than a survey. The Executive Compensation Assessor® is available in 2 versions – Professional (for US/Canada executive compensation planning) and Consultant (for use in SOX, litigation support, UK/Canada/EU analyses, and reasonable compensation analyses).