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ERI's Geographic Assessor (GA) compares geographic salary levels at the location of your headquarters and branch offices. Subscribers utilize this application to set branch office salary structures that are fair and competitive. ERI’s pay survey application contrasts salaries in over 10,600 metro areas in the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, China, the UK, Europe, and other countries around the world, including suburbs. Users can compare cities to each other or to a national average. Alternatively, they can create user-defined locations based on the commuting distance of the local labor pool. The Geographic Assessor also provides cost-of-living comparisons to help organizations select locations for new facilities. Geographic salary and cost-of-living differentials are calculated based on the earnings levels and locations the user selects. Comparison Lists are available for multiple office locations, with summary salary differentials at different earnings levels, or grade midpoints, as selected by the user. ERI researchers save you time and expense by collecting and analyzing salary survey data and cost-of-living statistics from thousands of sources. Subscribers can quickly prepare reports for management using Geographic Assessor cost-of-labor tables and graphs. Sold on an annual subscription basis, database updates are released twice each quarter (see Update Available).
Prevailing Wages for H-1B Visa Applications
The Geographic Assessor also provides US prevailing wage and Census data. Subscribers utilize this edition to determine prevailing wages for H-1B visas, set bids for government contracts, and retrieve US Census data of race and gender by job category. This Census information provides baseline reference data for affirmative action reporting and OFCCP 11246 Regulation analyses. Prevailing wage reports can also be exported as a PDF.
•View salary differentials for more than 9,300 locations in North America, the UK, Europe, and other countries around the world.
•Select any geographic area as your base location (including the national average, state, city or user-defined area)
•Compare both the cost of labor and cost of living between two areas
•Modify assumptions for cost-of-living analyses, including home ownership vs. rental, transportation, consumables, and more.
•Upload as many as 1,000 locations to build a cost-of-labor or cost-of-living comparison table
•Create your own user-defined area representative of the labor market pool (e.g., metro areas, regions)
•Calculate values for multiple earnings (e.g., grade midpoint) levels at once
•View Economic Indicators, such as local CPI, unemployment rates, etc.
•Prevailing wage analyses available for H-1B visa applications
•OES and census data also available
•View maps of specific locations included in ERI’s various Assessor Series databases
•Current minimum wage data for all 50 US states, plus the District of Columbia, and Canada, with data for major cities and counties/provinces
•Estimated per diems for up to 1,000 locations at once
•Detailed long-term housing cost information for popular expat neighborhoods in 95 major business
•Methodology available
•Updated twice each quarter
Please note: All features and counts described above are for the Enterprise Edition of the cloud-based GA. For more information, please contact ERI.
Subscribers who are administering an employee relocation or transfer are strongly encouraged to utilize the Relocation Assessor application. It is important to note that the original Two City Comparison table in the Geographic Assessor only reports summary cost-of-living differentials based on the rental housing market and benchmark assumptions for each earnings level; the updated Two City Comparison table in the enhanced Geographic Assessor includes cost-of-living data for both rental and home ownership scenarios (contact info.eri@erieri.com to subscribe to the enhanced Geographic Assessor). The Relocation Assessor was specifically designed to build relocation packages and reports rental and ownership differentials, along with itemized break-outs of the expenditure categories that can be modified by the user. While you should use the Geographic Assessor to set wage and salary levels based on geographic differentials, the Relocation Assessor is better suited to determine COLAs.