• Contents
• Introduction
  • Methodology/Disclaimer
• Main Tables
  • Salaries by Experience/Size
  • Salaries by Level
  • Benchmark List
  • Geographic List
  • Salary Planning
  • Advanced Reports
• Using the Salary Assessor
  • Most Common Tasks
  • Frequently Asked Questions 
    • Using the Salary Assessor
      • 1. What data can be modified?
      • 2. Can I alter the graph?
      • 3. Revenue to use for Store Manager
    • Data Background Information
      • 1. Is the Salary Assessor a salary survey?
      • 2. Inclusion of bonus, incentive and other pay
      • 3. Definition of "years of experience"
      • 4. Does one year of experience mean entry level?
      • 5. Is the Salary Assessor a historical database?
      • 6. What are the sources of data for salaries by level of responsibility, i.e, Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3?
      • 7. What does the term "Assets" refer to for the Financial industry?
      • 8. How is the Renter's Cost of Living calculated in the Geographic List?
• More Frequently Asked Questions
  • FAQs Common to Multiple Assessor Series Applications
    • 1. Where do the numbers for salaries and wages come from?
    • 2. Where do the numbers for cost of living come from?
    • 3. What is the difference between wage and cost-of-living differentials?
    • 4. How is wage data compiled, and how old is the survey data used?
    • 5. How is a job selected for inclusion? What is the sample size?
    • 6. What salary surveys are used?
    • 7. How many incumbents are there?
    • 8. How is salary survey data weighted?
    • 9. How can ERI report salaries by years of experience when some surveys don't?
    • 10. What is statistical analysis?
    • 11. Can I use this data as evidence for expert witness work?
    • 12. Different types of job descriptions
    • 13.  Is wage data only from non-union employers?
    • 14. What do the "incentive" amounts represent?
    • 15. Why isn't the exempt status displayed?
    • 16. Is data normalized to a 2080-hour year?
    • 17. Changing the organization size type
    • 18. Setting the salary planning date backwards; pro-rata figure
    • 19. Why can't I find a certain position?
    • 20. Education levels in position descriptions
    • 21. How should I compare pay in different countries?
    • 22. How is the National Average computed?  Why is it different from others sources?
    • 23. Accessing data for one quarter; quater-to-quarter comparisons
    • 24. Is revenue "gross" or "net"?
    • 25. Do any of the Assessors have a separate component for "security clearance" in the salary amounts?
    • 26. What is the difference between User-Defined and Manual Averages?
    • 27. How high up in pay do geographic pay differentials extend?
    • 28. Are commissions included in compensation for sales positions?
    • 29. How do you define "assets"?
    • 30. Why is the ERI Closest Matching City found in a ZIP code search different than the Post Office City listed?
    • 31. How are data from multiple salary surveys combined in the Assessor Series?
    • 32. Does ERI collect data on per visit compensation?
    • 33. Does ERI report target sales compensation?
    • 34. Executive cash compensation in privately-held versus publicly-traded companies
    • 35. Why is organization size important when analyzing compensation?
    • 36. What do the "base salary" amounts represent?
    • 37. What do the "total cash" amounts represent?
    • 38. Why don't you show pay figures for all public jobs?
    • 39. Why are results different when comparing the XA and CA?
    • 40. How can I ensure that ZIP codes are formatted correctly in Excel for use in an Assessor Series application?
    • 41. How is the Comparison List - COL in the Geographic Assessor different from the COL Table by Earnings in the Relocation Assessor?
    • 42. How often is ERI Assessor Series data updated?
  • FAQs About ERI Economic Research Institute
    • 1. What does ERI do?
    • 2. ERI vs. Competitors
    • 3. ERI background to share with management
    • 4. Which companies use ERI data?
    • 5. ERI data vs. data of major consulting firms
    • 6. Why an annual subscription?
    • 7. How do you keep your costs so low?
    • 8. I need help!  How do I contact ERI?
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• Product and Ordering Information
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• Additional Common Topics (Listed Alphabetically)
  • Access Cloud Assessor Series Homepage
  • APH Compliance
  • Area Related Topics
    • Definition of Geographic Area (Salary / Wage Analyses)
    • Definition of Geographic Area (Cost of Living)
    • Small Cities and Towns in ERI's Database
    • Requests for New Areas
  • Assessor Series Applications
    • Salary Assessor
      • Salary Assessor Background
    • Geographic Assessor
      • Geographic Assessor Background
    • Relocation Assessor
      • Relocation Assessor Background
    • Executive Compensation Assessor
      • Executive Compensation Assessor Background
    • Nonprofit Comparables Assessor
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  • Means/Medians
  • NAICS
  • Participate in a Survey
  • Percentiles
  • Section 508 Compliance
  • Settings Menu
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  • Suggest a Title
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• Additional Salary Assessor Topics (Listed Alphabetically)
  • Add/Remove Columns
  • Advanced Reports Background
  • Benchmark List Background
  • Browse Geographic Region
  • Browse Industries
  • Canadian Counties
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  • Compensation Type
  • Create User Defined Average
  • Currency
  • Customize Levels
  • Customize Revenue/Assets
  • Customize Percentiles
  • Customize Years of Experience
  • Date Last Updated
  • Definition of Levels
  • Departments
  • Edit Pay Grades
  • Edit User Defined Average
  • Export to Excel
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  • Geographic List Background
  • Hybrid Positions
  • Import Hybrid Position
  • Import Areas
  • Import Departments
  • Import Employee List
  • Import Jobs
  • Import Pay Grade Table
  • Import User-Defined Average
  • Mental Demands
  • Modify Table
  • Pay Period
  • Personalize Settings
  • Planned Action
  • Position Description
  • Postal Code Search
  • Printing
  • Reorder Columns
  • Salaries by Experience/Size Background
  • Salaries by Level Background
  • Salary Adjustments
  • Salary Graph
  • Salary Planning Background
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  • Salary Planning Summary
  • Save Table
  • Search Jobs
  • Select Area
  • Select User Defined Average
  • Semantic Search
  • Show Charts
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  • Survey Estimate Details
  • Survey Population
  • Variance Statistics

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