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ERI does not provide access to historical databases.  With data updates released twice each quarter, datasets are licensed for use during their effective date only.  For historical compensation reports, please see ERI Salary Surveys.  

 

Pay Rates

 

Please note that ERI does not recommend utilizing our products for historical analyses of pay rate inflation.  Due to changes in methodology and survey population over time, such use is inadvisable.  To determine salary inflation rates by market it is necessary to track a consistent survey population over time.  An individual area survey with consistent methodology is an example of a publication more suitable to this purpose.

 

Also, please note that the Salary Assessor (SA), Executive Compensation Assessor (XA), and Nonprofit Comparables Assessor (CA) Salary Planning Date and/or Valuation Date feature allows subscribers to trend current pay data backwards and forwards through time.  In other words, the application trends the most recent data to the selected date; it does not pull data from a historical database.  Static historical data is accessible for a variety of years in the form of Form 990s, Proxies and 10-Ks which can be viewed via CA and XA.

 

Cost of Living

 

Please note that ERI does not recommend utilizing our products for historical analyses of cost-of-living inflation.  Such use is inadvisable due to changes in methodology over time, such as revised area and cost category definitions, and changes in survey population resulting from the addition and removal of various sources and data.  To determine cost of living inflation rates by market, it is necessary to track a consistent survey population over time.  An individual area survey with consistent methodology, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistic's Consumer Price Index (CPI), would be more suitable to this purpose.