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QUESTION:  What data may be modified and how will it affect salaries?

 

The Organization Data field allows you to customize your analysis by area, type of industry, organization size (revenue, assets, FYB, or # of employees) and/or salary planning date, depending on the main table in use.

 

•Organization Name: Please note that your inputs to Organization Data will show on exports to Excel or PDF, including the Organization Name.  In this way, your reports may be personalized.  The Personalize Settings dialog also allows you to include the analyst's organization name and contact information at the bottom of each PDF export.

 

•Area: When initially booted, the Salary Assessor loads a default specification of United States Average (postal code 00000).  Depending on your subscription level, you may select from any of over 8,000 US and Canadian cities and several hundred additional areas in the UK and Europe.  You may average several areas to a User-Defined Average, or labor market area, or you may add multiple areas to the Geographic List.

 

•Industry: When initially booted, the Salary Assessor loads a default specification of "All Industry Average."  Because codes can vary with different publications, be sure to match an industry by title, rather than by code alone.  Please refer to the Methodologies for information in industries.

 

•Organization Size: When initially booted, the Salary Assessor loads a default specification of $100 million in revenue.   Organization size for most jobs and industries is defined in terms of annual revenue.  For some jobs and industries, the organization size is defined in terms of assets, fiscal year budget (FYB), or # of employees.  See Change Organization Size.

 

•Salary Planning Date: When initially booted, the Salary Assessor loads a default specification of today's date (the current PC or system date).  You may select any salary planning date and the Salary Assessor will automatically trend salary calculations forward or backward to the date specified.  For Annual Salary Trend adjustments, ERI bases our salary increase rates on the Salary Increase Survey & Forecast.