About ERI
Powering Modern Compensation Decisions
ERI Economic Research Institute was founded over 35 years ago to provide compensation applications for private and public organizations. ERI compiles the most robust salary, cost-of-living, and executive compensation survey data available, with updated market data for more than 1,100 industry sectors.
Data are analyzed using AI and traditional statistics, depending on which approach is best for a particular application. ERI collects salary survey data from five different sources.
Why You Should Trust ERI's Compensation Data
Compensation expertise built over decades of research.
Our comprehensive approach combines cutting-edge AI technology with traditional statistical methods, ensuring the highest accuracy in compensation data. Every data point undergoes rigorous validation by our team of Ph.D. data scientists.
With over three decades of expertise, ERI has become the trusted source for organizations worldwide seeking reliable compensation benchmarking and market insights.
35+ Years of Compensation Research
Ph.D. Data Scientists
Trusted by Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everyone in between
Data are gathered from five sources:
- ERI’s salary surveys
- Customer HRIS data
- Data from proxies/10-Ks and Forms 990
- Proprietary databases
- Purchased survey data
ERI conducts advanced analytics using a combination of traditional methodology and transformer models to accurately capture the full scope of an occupation and how it exists in the economy.
After compiling the data, we conduct QA to ensure data are of the highest quality.
Trusted compensation databases including:
We continuously collect new market data, reanalyze, and refine our results to help you make confident compensation decisions.
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