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ERI's Geographic Assessor (GA) compares geographic salary levels at the location of your headquarters and branch offices. Subscribers utilize this application to set branch office salary structures that are fair and competitive. ERI’s pay survey application contrasts salaries in over 9,000 metro areas in the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, the UK, Europe, China, and other countries around the world, including suburbs. Users can compare cities to each other or to a national average. Alternatively, they can create user-defined locations based on the commuting distance of the local labor pool. The Geographic Assessor also provides general cost-of-living comparisons to help organizations select locations for new facilities. Geographic salary and cost-of-living differentials are calculated based on the earnings levels and locations the user selects. A Comparison List screen is available for multiple office locations, with summary salary differentials at different earnings levels, or grade midpoints, as selected by the user.
Prevailing Wages for H-1B Visa Applications
The Geographic Assessor also provides US prevailing wage and Census data. Subscribers utilize this edition to determine prevailing wages for H-1B visas, set bids for government contracts, and retrieve US Census data of race and gender (2000-2010) by job category. This Census information provides baseline reference data for affirmative action reporting and OFCCP 11246 Regulation analyses. ERI researchers save you time and expense by collecting and analyzing salary survey data and cost-of-living statistics from thousands of sources. Subscribers can quickly prepare reports for management using Geographic Assessor cost-of-labor tables and graphs. Prevailing wage reports can also be exported as a PDF. Sold on an annual subscription basis, database updates are released each quarter (see Update Available).
•View salary differentials for more than 9,000 locations in North America, the UK, Europe, and other countries around the world.
•Select any geographic area as your base location (including the national average, state, city or user-defined area)
•Compare both the cost of labor and cost of living between two areas
•Upload as many as 1,000 locations to build a cost of labor comparison table
•Create your own user-defined area representative of the labor market pool (e.g., metro areas, regions)
•Calculate values for multiple earnings (e.g., grade midpoint) levels at once
•Prevailing wage analyses available for H-1B visa applications
•OES and census data also available
•Maps and satellite images for all continents
•Current minimum wage data for all 50 US states, plus the District of Columbia, with data for major cities and counties
•Methodology available
•Updated quarterly
Please note: All features and counts described above are for the Enterprise Edition of the cloud-based GA. For more information, please contact ERI.
Subscribers who are administering an employee relocation or transfer are strongly encouraged to utilize the Relocation Assessor application. The Geographic Assessor presents cursory cost-of-living information. This information is limited to renters' spending patterns and is intended to provide only a first look at the relative buying power of wages/salaries in different areas. It is not intended to present a recommended COLA or other relocation administration data.