QUESTION: We use ERI data in business valuation to assist with determining reasonable compensation for owners. In litigation, attorneys request the sources of the numbers and the size (number of incumbents) of the survey. Is there any way to find out how many respondents there are? Where do I find this information?
Salary Assessor Subscribers:
Executive compensation is available from the Salary Assessor and is pulled from ERI's Executive Compensation Assessor databases. While the purpose of the Salary Assessor is to assist with an organization's salary planning and salary administration, it is not designed to support litigation research where one needs to pull actual source documents from ERI's file servers. For this purpose and for business valuations, please utilize the Executive Compensation Assessor & Survey for this type of application.
Executive Compensation Assessor Subscribers:
The Executive Compensation Assessor databases were built to support reasonable compensation and litigation research. Click on any data point displayed on the graph to view the proxy data company and salary. In addition, the application provides proxy data "comparables" (organization matches of your choice) for litigation purposes. The Executive Compensation Assessor databases access the most current SEC proxy data available. Similarly, the Nonprofit Comparables Assessor draws from public domain Form 990s/EOs/EZs/PFs where the actual source documents can be displayed.
To View the Employee Population
To view ERI's estimate of the surveyed population of incumbents used in its most recent analysis for the selected position, click the 
button in the lower-left corner of the screen in the Salary Assessor or Executive Compensation Assessor application.