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For future projections by industry, area and job function, please see the ERI Salary Increase Survey & Forecast.

 

For current/quarterly projects using market pricing, please refer to the Planning Date (or Valuation Date) and Annualized Salary Trend features in the Salary Assessor (SA), Executive Compensation Assessor (XA), and Nonprofit Comparables Assessor (CA).  The "Planning Date" is automatically updated to the date of your computer.  The salary/wage data shown is automatically trended from the first of the "Data as of Date" (the first day of the quarter) to the "Planning Date"  according to the "Annualized Salary Trend."  Both the "Planning Date" and the "Annualized Salary Trend" may be modified.

 

Annualized Salary Trend

The Annualized Salary Trend default values are reviewed on a regular basis and are set according to the overall current trend of change in the market pay for jobs by income category.  Subscribers may override the default values for each adjustment rate by overwriting default values and may also return the system defaults at any time by clicking the Default button in the Planning Date Salary Adjustment screen.  

 

Note: When any of the top six executive titles is chosen, then the default Annualized Salary Trend is not used to trend the data forward or backward; the application uses actual public data to trend it.  In this case, the Annualized Salary Trend will display "data driven," and the Adjust button will not appear below the Annualized Salary Trend field.

 

Historical Estimated Increase Rates

ERI ages the data of various surveys to a common, quarterly effective date, as these surveys are received and processed throughout the year.