Compensation benchmarking is the best way to accurately find out the going salary rates for your jobs

With ERI’s salary benchmarking solution, you can compare your compensation packages to those of your peers and make data-based decisions to attract top prospective candidates and retain high-quality employees.

What ERI’s Salary Benchmarking Tool Can Do

Deliver compensation benchmarking data to your fingertips

Easily compare employee salaries with market benchmarks for every job title, function, and location at your business. Upload and compare your employee pay data to see if you are spending too much or too little. Offer competitive compensation packages based on current, reliable, and accurate salary data.

Attract and engage exceptional talent

Ensure your jobs are priced competitively against similar jobs on the market. Utilize compensation benchmarks to make fair and equitable pay decisions that entice top candidates and help your employees feel valued.

Stay ahead of the competition

Find market rates for jobs by understanding what your competitors are offering based on organization size, location, and industry. Customize jobs based on experience, education, direct oversight, shift work, skills, and certifications (including security clearances) for accurate pay analyses.

Reliable salary survey data from trusted sources

ERI Economic Research Institute has been in the business of compensation data for over 35 years. Our methodology consists of a rigorous process to vet, verify, and validate a curated database that organizations trust.

Advanced job matching

Easily match internal job titles to ERI’s database using custom job titles and job descriptions, AI-powered job matching, or hybrid positions to maximize the accuracy in market pricing. Store and retrieve data about internal jobs for continued benchmarking and compensation planning.

Ability to fine-tune analyses

Benchmark base salary, incentive, long-term incentive, and total cash at various percentiles with customized pay periods for multiple jobs at once. Compare job titles by postal code or cities within a radius of another.

How Our Compensation Benchmarking Software Levels Up Your Planning

Quick and Efficient

Create lists of benchmark job titles that can easily be run against multiple locations, industries, and more to immediately price jobs in the ever-changing market.

Make Pay Decisions Backed by Proven Data

ERI’s database consists of benefits and compensation surveys vetted by our data scientists to ensure maximum accuracy for over 35,300 jobs, 1,100 industries, and 10,500 locations.

Responsible Pay Practices

Use Survey Management to upload your external salary surveys and compare them with ERI Assessor Series data. Analyze your pay against the market to ensure that your compensation packages are fair, competitive, and aligned with your organizational goals.

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Salary Benchmarking FAQs

What Is Salary Benchmarking?

Salary benchmarking, also known as compensation benchmarking, is the process of making pay comparisons to similar jobs in other organizations using external market data. Compensation benchmarks help ensure that your jobs are priced competitively.

Why Is Salary Benchmarking Important?

Salary benchmarks help your organization stay current with market trends so that you can offer fair, equitable, and competitive compensation packages that attract top talent and make your employees feel valued.

What Is the Process of Salary Benchmarking?

Salary benchmarking consists of gathering compensation data, performing market research, analyzing your data, creating a compensation strategy, and determining fair and equitable salary ranges for your positions against the market. Generally, this is done by purchasing individual salary surveys related to your company’s particular industry.

With ERI’s Assessor Platform, you can easily streamline your salary benchmarking process with access to our robust salary survey database, allowing you to compare your jobs with market benchmarks and determine competitive compensation levels.

What Factors Go into Salary Benchmarking?

Consider these factors that can influence your salary benchmarking: industry, organization size, geographic location, job responsibilities, education level, certifications, and skills. ERI’s Assessor Platform allows you to customize your analysis based on these factors, which can help you determine precise pay rates for your jobs.

Why Should Your Organization Benchmark Salaries?

Performing a compensation benchmarking analysis allows your organization to compare salaries and benefits, such as health insurance, retirement plans, and cash bonuses, against your competitors so that you can make informed, data-based compensation and budget decisions that keep up with the marketplace.

What Are Salary Benchmarking Best Practices?

  • Define your salary benchmarking goals based on your organization’s specific needs and requirements.
  • Use a diverse set of sources for up-to-date and reputable salary survey data that reflects changing market conditions.
  • Choose similar competitors to compare your salaries against based on size, location, industry, or other factors.
  • Communicate compensation decisions transparently to employees to foster trust and engagement.

For more best practice tips, check out our blog:

How to Master Compensation Benchmarking