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QUESTION:  What exactly does ERI do?  What is the value of ERI's products to me?

 

It is ERI's goal to be your organization's compensation and benefits research outsource. That is, you should be able to duplicate ERI's calculations should you desire to spend the time and resources required to collect, compile and analyze the thousands of data points that comprise any one city's wage and salary rates as well as cost-of-living levels. This time and these resources can now be spent by subscribers in administering pay and performing the many other duties that modern Human Resource positions demand. ERI's research analysts offer a combined one-hundred-plus years of experience in the fields of compensation and benefits.

 

ERI maintains several unique databases. ERI collects and tracks wage and salary information for the U.S., Canada, the UK, many European nations, and other countries around the globe.  ERI reports cost-of-living information globally, covering every nation and most major cities in the world.  Data for each country is maintained separately. (Detailed methodologies are available from each Assessor Series application.)  

 

ERI's research, available for decades, provides instantaneous answers to your most pressing compensation and benefits questions. ERI's researchers save you time and money!