Accurate Compensation Data at Your Fingertips
Perform reliable salary benchmarking across roles, locations, industries, and organization sizes, detailed cost-of-living analyses, and comprehensive compensation management using ERI's Assessor Platform.
Database Search
Help me find a location or job for my compensation analysis
With our search tool, you can easily see if we have compensation data for a particular location or job title
Highlighted Features
AI Job Matching
Upload internal job titles and easily match them to benchmarked ERI job titles.
HRIS Integration
Keep your compensation management data aligned with your HRIS in real time.
Salary Benchmarking
- Make accurate, strategic decisions with current compensation benchmarking data
- Customize compensation rates based on experience, revenue/assets, education, direct oversight, shift work, skills, and certifications (including security clearances)
- Benchmark base salary, incentives, long-term incentives, and total cash at various percentiles to support equitable pay decisions and competitive compensation strategies
- Analyze executive compensation
- Frequent updates for data accuracy
Compensation Management
- Manage compensation plans from strategy design to employee communication with clarity and consistency
- Enable managers to set salary increases and incentives directly in the system, guided by HR for fairness and alignment
- Optimize pay decisions by automatically integrating performance and incentive plans with market data for every employee.
Cost of Labor and Cost of Living Differentials
- Cost-of-living and cost-of-labor analyses across multiple cities worldwide and user-defined regions
- Stay compliant with real-time U.S. and Canada minimum wage rates and wage transparency laws, automatically updated to support accurate payroll and planning
- Easily compare salaries for specific pay periods, salary structure percentages, or percent differentials for multiple locations at once and save customized lists for ongoing analysis.
Survey Management
- Simplify survey management by uploading and organizing all your salary survey data in one place
- Automatically combine surveys using a selection of accepted methods
- Compare your pay rates with the latest market data to ensure competitive compensation
Compensation News Alerts
- Minimum Wage Alerts: Stay compliant with real-time notifications whenever an employee’s pay falls below local city or state minimum wage rates.
- FLSA Alerts: Proactively identify potential overtime exemption issues and stay compliant with up-to-date state and federal regulations.
Compensation Data
- Leverage comprehensive salary survey databases to ensure accurate compensation insights
- Harness advanced analytics, including meta-analysis and machine learning, to inform strategic pay decisions
- Compare compensation for jobs worldwide using employer-provided salary survey data
- Rely on curated datasets to eliminate inaccurate or irrelevant data, ensuring defensible results
- Maintain precision with each job reviewed and audited twice per quarter
DATA
Compensation Data around the Globe
Analyze the cost of labor, cost of living, and executive compensation for thousands of locations
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Updates to Compensation Management Features
- AI Salary Increase: Generate salary increase plans based on selected jobs, surveyed budget or occupational increase rates, and other internal criteria.
- AI Powered Job Matching tool: Suggests up to five ERI job matches based on your internal job title and description.
- AI Evaluate: Compare duties and responsibilities between an internal job’s and a survey job’s descriptions to evaluate and rate – from Low to High – how aligned the duties are between the roles.
- AI Job Description Generator: Generate job descriptions from an existing internal job title.
- AI Pay Grades tool: Create pay structures by sorting internal jobs on an Employee List into distinct pay grade groups. Users can check for agreement with job group reasoning and edit job groups where needed to set pay grade values backed by ERI market data.
- Workforce Insights: Identify issues with internal compensation at the job or employee level, check for pay compression, and examine pay equity for protected groups.
- Sync to ERI: Use the new HRIS sync to integrate employee data from your HRIS provider with ERI’s Compensation Management platform.
- Notifications and Reports: Export reports identifying FLSA, minimum wage, pay grade, and market index misalignments within an employee population.
- AI Salary Increase: Generate salary increase plans based on selected jobs, surveyed budget or occupational increase rates, and other internal criteria.
- AI Powered Job Matching tool: Suggests up to five ERI job matches based on your internal job title and description.
- AI Evaluate: Compare duties and responsibilities between an internal job’s and a survey job’s descriptions to evaluate and rate – from Low to High – how aligned the duties are between the roles.
- AI Job Description Generator: Generate job descriptions from an existing internal job title.
- AI Pay Grades tool: Create pay structures by sorting internal jobs on an Employee List into distinct pay grade groups. Users can check for agreement with job group reasoning and edit job groups where needed to set pay grade values backed by ERI market data.
- Workforce Insights: Identify issues with internal compensation at the job or employee level, check for pay compression, and examine pay equity for protected groups.
- Sync to ERI: Use the new HRIS sync to integrate employee data from your HRIS provider with ERI’s Compensation Management platform.
- Notifications and Reports: Export reports identifying FLSA, minimum wage, pay grade, and market index misalignments within an employee population.
Updates to Benchmarking, Market Data, & Compliance Features
- Geographic Assessor’s New Dashboard and Interactive Maps: Explore cost-of-labor, cost-of-living, and minimum-wage data for your areas of interest with customizable, color-coded maps.
- API Integration: Schedule recurring Geographic Assessor reports to run automatically to save time and reduce manual work.
- Geographic Assessor’s Minimum Wage map now includes an option to search locations by latitude & longitude (U.S. locations).
- AI Growth Modal: Get updated Salary Trend Rates with flexible growth modeling using AI.
- Minimum Wage Tracking: View current minimum wages and scheduled changes in the United States and Canada, with email alerts when rates change.
- AI FLSA: Generate an FLSA Status suggestion for an internal job based on its job description.
- Geographic Assessor’s New Dashboard and Interactive Maps: Explore cost-of-labor, cost-of-living, and minimum-wage data for your areas of interest with customizable, color-coded maps.
- API Integration: Schedule recurring Geographic Assessor reports to run automatically to save time and reduce manual work.
- Geographic Assessor’s Minimum Wage map now includes an option to search locations by latitude & longitude (U.S. locations).
- AI Growth Modal: Get updated Salary Trend Rates with flexible growth modeling using AI.
- Minimum Wage Tracking: View current minimum wages and scheduled changes in the United States and Canada, with email alerts when rates change.
- AI FLSA: Generate an FLSA Status suggestion for an internal job based on its job description.
- AI Salary Increase: Generate salary increase plans based on selected jobs, surveyed budget or occupational increase rates, and other internal criteria.
- AI Powered Job Matching tool: Suggests up to five ERI job matches based on your internal job title and description.
- AI Evaluate: Compare duties and responsibilities between an internal job’s and a survey job’s descriptions to evaluate and rate – from Low to High – how aligned the duties are between the roles.
- AI Job Description Generator: Generate job descriptions from an existing internal job title.
- AI Pay Grades tool: Create pay structures by sorting internal jobs on an Employee List into distinct pay grade groups. Users can check for agreement with job group reasoning and edit job groups where needed to set pay grade values backed by ERI market data.
- Workforce Insights: Identify issues with internal compensation at the job or employee level, check for pay compression, and examine pay equity for protected groups.
- Sync to ERI: Use the new HRIS sync to integrate employee data from your HRIS provider with ERI’s Compensation Management platform.
- Notifications and Reports: Export reports identifying FLSA, minimum wage, pay grade, and market index misalignments within an employee population.
- Geographic Assessor’s New Dashboard and Interactive Maps: Explore cost-of-labor, cost-of-living, and minimum-wage data for your areas of interest with customizable, color-coded maps.
- API Integration: Schedule recurring Geographic Assessor reports to run automatically to save time and reduce manual work.
- Geographic Assessor’s Minimum Wage map now includes an option to search locations by latitude & longitude (U.S. locations).
- AI Growth Modal: Get updated Salary Trend Rates with flexible growth modeling using AI.
- Minimum Wage Tracking: View current minimum wages and scheduled changes in the United States and Canada, with email alerts when rates change.
- AI FLSA: Generate an FLSA Status suggestion for an internal job based on its job description.
Our Process
Why You Should Trust ERI’s Data
ERI Economic Research Institute was founded over 35 years ago to provide trusted compensation data for private and public organizations. Our salary data goes through a rigorous quality control process before it appears on our Assessor Platform.
Data Collection
Analysis
ERI Results
Data Verification
Quality Assurance
ERI Economic Research Institute was founded over 35 years ago to provide trusted compensation data for private and public organizations. Our salary data goes through a rigorous quality control process before it appears on our Assessor Platform.
Data Collection
Analysis
ERI Results
Data Verification
Quality Assurance
Safeguarding Your Data
ERI Completes SOC 2® Audit
ERI is committed to the security of customer information and, in turn, the long-term success of your business. By successfully completing our SOC 2 examination, we continue to manage customer data based on the five Trust Services Criteria, developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA): security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
ERI is committed to the security of customer information and, in turn, the long-term success of your business. By successfully completing our SOC 2 examination, we continue to manage customer data based on the five Trust Services Criteria, developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA): security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
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We offer continuing onboarding support for our products, as well as bespoke compensation planning services. We can tailor our products and services exactly to your business needs, regardless of size, revenue, or industry. Sometimes compensation can be complicated and time-consuming. We’re here to help at no additional cost.
About Us
Accurate Compensation Data Is Our Number One Priority
For over 35 years, ERI has been focused on researching compensation by gathering salary data and integrating it into our custom salary products.
Our methodology includes advanced analytics, such as machine learning and longitudinal analysis, which enables us to understand how market forces influence each job’s compensation and how it fits into its corresponding organization, location, and industry. Our compensation data is sourced from internal surveys, third-party surveys, and public sources to provide a robust sample.
See Our Process
For over 35 years, ERI has been focused on researching compensation by gathering salary data and integrating it into our custom salary products.
Our methodology includes advanced analytics, such as machine learning and longitudinal analysis, which enables us to understand how market forces influence each job’s compensation and how it fits into its corresponding organization, location, and industry. Our compensation data is sourced from internal surveys, third-party surveys, and public sources to provide a robust sample.
Who Uses Our Platform
Thousands Of Successful Companies Trust Our Products
Whether you are a Fortune 500 company or own a small business, ERI’s Assessor Platform can scale up or down to fit your compensation needs.
Whether you are a Fortune 500 company or own a small business, ERI’s Assessor Platform can scale up or down to fit your compensation needs.
Testimonials
What Our Customers Say
…ERI is a tremendous resource for wage analysis, cost of living, cost of labor, and relocation data for our employees… I have examined other tools offered by your competitors and I have found that I have complete confidence in ERI’s methodology…
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.
Cliff Sandsmark – Senior Compensation Manager
From small businesses to Fortune 500 companies, ERI’s Assessor Platform can scale up or down to your business’ size and compensation needs.
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Denise Flournoy – Director HR and Compensation
My subscription to ERI has been the VERY BEST investment of my professional career. ERI paid for itself before the end of the first month. The precision and detail of the data that I can now provide my clients enhances my own credibility as a consultant.
FiveL Company – Helping Leaders
Christine V. Walters, MAS, JD, SPHR – Independent Consultant, FiveL Company
