Make Defensible Pay Decisions with Compensation Insights for Professional Services
Business and professional services organizations operate in a talent-driven market where compensation plays a key role in attracting and retaining skilled professionals. HR and compensation teams need reliable salary data to benchmark consultants, accountants, legal services professionals, and business services by function, level, location, and specialty. ERI provides teams in compensation, rewards, and valuation with granular, audit-ready benchmark data.
- Benchmark consultants, accountants, legal services professionals, and business services roles with current salary data
- Compare pay by function, level, location, and specialty using ERI’s compensation benchmarking tools
- Create market-aligned pay grades and compensation structures that improve consistency, transparency, and planning
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Business and Professional Services Compensation Solutions for Specialized Talent
Price Specialized Roles with Real-Time Market Data
Skilled, client-facing roles can be difficult to price when pay varies by location, industry, years of experience, level, organization size, and more. ERI’s Salary Assessor gives you reliable salary data and salary benchmarking tools to price consulting, accounting, legal, business services, and corporate roles with real-time market insights.
Job Matching Intelligence for Internal Titles
When job titles differ by team, specialty, or service line, it can be challenging to compare roles consistently. ERI’s Internal Job Builder and AI Job Matching tools help teams create internal job titles, align them with comparable ERI roles, and establish a stronger foundation for job levels, pay grades, and market-based compensation benchmarking.
Manage Geographic Salary Differentials
A role based in one market may require a different pay strategy than the same role in another office, client site, or remote location. ERI’s Geographic Assessor helps you compare cost-of-labor data, so you can account for geographic differences when setting salary ranges, market adjustments, and compensation structures.
Connect Pay Grades and Leadership Progression
As employees move into director, partner, executive, or specialized leadership roles, compensation structures need to scale with them. ERI’s Compensation Management tools help teams create market-aligned pay grades and salary bands, while ERI’s Executive Compensation Assessor provides executive pay data for leadership planning and peer comparisons.
Make Pay Decisions Easy to Explain
As pay transparency expectations grow, professional services firms need salary ranges that are clear, consistent, and backed by current market data to provide a defensible foundation for pay equity, compensation planning, and valuation engagements
Bring More Structure to Compensation Planning
Annual reviews can get complicated when pay decisions depend on performance, promotions, market movement, and internal equity. ERI’s Assessor Platform helps professional services teams manage compensation planning, model salary increases, review budget impact, and create customized reports for leadership.
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Business and Professional Services FAQ
How can ERI help benchmark business and professional services? 
ERI helps organizations benchmark pay for consulting, accounting, legal, business services, and corporate roles using current business services compensation data. With ERI’s Assessor Platform, you can compare jobs by title, level, location, industry, years of experience, and organization size to make more defensible salary benchmarking decisions.
Does ERI provide salary data for consulting roles?
ERI provides salary survey data for consulting roles, including advisory, client-facing, and leadership-track roles. With ERI’s Assessor Platform, teams can use AI job matching tools to align internal consulting titles with comparable ERI roles and then compare market pay. This is useful when consultant, manager, principal, or partner titles vary by practice area or client responsibility.
Can ERI be used as an accounting salary guide?
Yes, ERI can be used as an accounting salary guide for organizations pricing accounting, audit, tax, and advisory roles. Unlike a static guide, ERI’s Salary Assessor provides current salary data that can be adjusted by location, industry, organization size, years of experience, and job requirements, making it more practical for market pricing and annual pay reviews.
Does ERI provide legal services salary data?
For law firms and organizations with in-house legal teams, ERI provides legal services and law firm salary data for benchmarking legal roles by level, location, industry, years of experience, and organization size. For senior legal positions, our Executive Compensation Assessor adds executive pay data for firm leadership and other executive-level roles.
How does ERI support compensation planning for professional services firms?
Annual pay reviews can become complex when salary increases, promotions, budget impact, and internal equity all need to be considered together. ERI’s Compensation Management tools help teams manage compensation planning, model pay adjustments and create customized reports for leadership. This gives professional services firms a more structured way to review pay decisions before annual increases are finalized.