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QUESTION:  Is the Salary Assessor® a salary survey?

 

Salary values of the Salary Assessor are the compiled results of in-house salary surveys, data purchased from other salary survey vendors, data extracted from publicly filed tax returns leased from other survey vendors, or gained from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, licensed UK, European, Canadian, and U.S. salary surveys and datasets collected and analyzed by ERI, as well as analyses derived from millions of data points gathered annually from loan and employment applicant earnings verifications.

 

The Salary Assessor does not reproduce data reported by any copyrighted (privately conducted) survey.  This would be copyright infringement and would undermine the sales of individual surveys.  Many surveys are produced by small proprietors, struggling to maintain quality control in an industry dominated by large consulting firms and the federal government OES surveys.  These survey publishers need both your and our support. ERI performs analyses on a combination of published data based upon decades of knowledge of salary surveys.  Jobs found within the Salary Assessor databases are those for which multiple salary survey sources are available and for which reported data has been condensed, modified and compiled.