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QUESTION:  Does ERI collect data on "per visit" compensation?

 

A “per visit” charge may apply to doctor fees or plumber charges, primarily as a overtime wage issue.  In general, ERI does not collect or report this data in the Assessor Series products.

 

In general, all of the Assessors Series products refer to competitive wages, salaries, and cash paid to employees for full-time work.  Doctors, plumbers, electricians, groundskeepers, massage therapists, and others are not usually paid per visit or even by the number of customers they serve.  Such counts reflect their business models, but not necessarily their pay.  They tend to receive a guaranteed wage or salary rate and have total compensation with bonus, incentive, commission, etc., included and reported in pay surveys as their annual incomes.  This is the data that ERI surveys, updates, and reports. 

 

Furthermore, ERI does not report on sole proprietor billings, business profit margins, or non-payroll income components like the value of fringe benefits or non-cash perquisites unless they are required to be published by SEC or IRS rules.  In such cases, we do show those cash income equivalent figures exactly as reported on the proxies or Form 990s.