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QUESTION:  Is the Salary Assessor® a salary survey?

 

Salary values of the Salary Assessor is the compiled results of licensed UK, European, Canadian, and US 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, digitized public records including the US SEC, OCR of US IRS returns, and ERI patented online surveys.

 

The Salary Assessor is easy-to-use and are a source of position salary data that complements the Geographic Assessor.  The Salary Assessor is designed to be as simple to access as taking a survey down from the shelf and looking up survey data for a particular position. Unlike a book, however, the application will perform functions which must otherwise be calculated by hand (e.g., applying a geographic differential adjustment to a specific job or trending data forward and backwards to specific planning dates).

 

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 over 20 years of knowledge of salary surveys.  Positions 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.