Cost of Living Comparison by City and State

CostofLiving.net has your city and state covered. Cost of Living.net provides easy to use cost of living comparisons for over 4,500 cities.

For professionals they offer a free demo of Cost of Living Software. The Relocation Assessor provides Cost of Living data for over 7,500 cities including Canada.

View Cost of Living Data in the 100 Most-Requested Cities, providing Local Cost of Living Comparisons by City and State.

More info at: www.costofliving.net

Career Searches for Those with Lessened Capabilities

Career Searches for Those with Lessened Capabilities…

For those unexpectedly unemployed, ERI’s free job search module of the Occupational Assessor™ eDOT® contains a complimentary application to assist individuals with disabilities in seeking employment, aged workers considering alternative careers, and those returning from the military. Review over 23,000 jobs, matched to 7,000 locations and 12,000,000 employers. Download it free of charge anytime. See why ERI’s employer-supplied data and analyses are unique and how PAQ’s eDOT Skills Project fits with the Assessor Series® methodology.  (PAQ’s eDOT Skills Project is evolving into PAQ’s Competencies Project and, as a consequence, ERI’s Occupational Assessor is to be renamed the Competencies Assessor™. See www.paq.com.)

Other Free Research Links and Products for Researchers

ERI has expanded its provision of free resources to researchers, students, and instructors (with the latter able to receive other complimentary ERI and PAQ materials):

• ERI Distance Learning Center: Online HR courses are provided free of charge for those new to compensation. To date, more than 20,000 individuals have spent an hour or more on the 53 subject matter topics for either certification credit or continuing education.
• Free Global Salary Calculator®: Download a calculator that converts job family data into specific job value estimates (for over 100,000 job titles). See www.erieri.it, www.erieri.co.uk, or any of 190 other countries’ similar URLs.

• Free for Charities: ERI is assisting PAQ Services, Inc., which supplies free, web-based salary planning services using conservative data (typically 15% below competitive norms) for use by nonprofit organizations. See www.paq.com.
• Free International Pay Data: See why Assessor Series datasets and software make ERI unique among those who provide compensation survey data. Click on a dot and review the source data. Review ERI’s C3 job family matrix that allows US specific job methodologies to complement European (and US public entity) job family classification systems.
• Free Looks at Selected Characteristics of Occupations: PAQ and ERI have teamed to make their worker trait measures for over 10,000 specific jobs available to the public. See www.paq.com.
• Download Support: Chat with a seasoned ERI compensation specialist while you download any demo program from our site. We see the “comp world” changing:

Salary Assessor Geographic Assessor Relocation Assessor

Executive Compensation Assessor Nonprofit Comparables Assessor Occupational Assessor

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See more at ERI’s January 2009 Update newsletter.

Executive Pay Drops in the Past 12 Months, According to ERI Economic Research Institute

News – For Immediate Release from ERI Economic Research Institute…

REDMOND, WA – November 2008 – During the most recent 12 months, the average total compensation of the highest paid executives in US publicly-traded companies decreased by 4.0%. This continued the decrease in total compensation during 2008, first evidenced in ERI’s August study of executive compensation. While overall total compensation decreased, three components of pay reported increases: non-equity based incentives (up 17.8%), restricted stock awards (up 24.5%), and pensions (up 45.5%). However, the ultimate value of the restricted stock awards and stock options may be affected by the most recent drop in share prices. Decreases were reported in components of base salaries, stock options, LTIP, and “All Other.”

ERI Economic Research Institute created this index of Executive Compensation 11 years ago. Since its inception in 1997, revenues of the US companies studied increased nearly 7 times faster than the dollar amounts paid to the companies’ highest paid executives, with total revenues increasing by 118% compared to an 18% increase for executive compensation.

Compensation Changes during the Past 12 Months

During the past 12 months, Overall Total Compensation of the highest-paid executive decreased by 4%, while revenues increased nearly 7%, with the average top executive receiving Overall Total Compensation of $17,760,518.

Compensation Changes Since 1997

The highest paid executives of US companies saw an increase in Overall Total Compensation of nearly 18% during the past 11 years, but the compensation components reported have changed significantly during this time period due to SEC reporting requirements.

Comparing Revenue growth to Total Compensation growth during this same period shows the average dollar amount of company revenues increased by nearly 118% as compared to 18% for total compensation. This means the dollar revenues increased nearly 7 times faster than the average dollar amount of the Executive Total Compensation Package.

Read the FULL Press Release at:
ERI Economic Research Institute News Room.

Revised Salary Survey Website Provides Salary Resources to HR Professionals Worldwide

The newly revised easy to use ERI Salary Survey Website portal provides salary survey resources to management and HR professionals worldwide.

As seen on PRLog.org: ERI Salary Survey provides Human resource managers, directors and executives worldwide, compensation data tools and software to set individual pay, adjust branch office salary structures, and set relocation allowances.

ERI Economic Research Institute was founded in 1987 to provide salary survey and cost-of-living research to HR professionals in the form of survey software databases, published salary reports, and online salary surveys.

The new website portal, ERI-Salary-Survey.com is aimed to provide choices to Human Resource professionals such as Salary Calculators, Salary Surveys, Surveys by Industry, Salary Reports, Geographic Pay Data, Global Salary Tools, resources and more.

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SalaryExpert.com is an ERI affiliate providing FREE Job Search software to students and job recruiters, HR execs and Professionals. Professionals use ERI salary survey software to plan compensation increases and set wage/salary structures.

New ERI Salary Survey Website – Providing salary survey data to management and HR professionals

ERI-Salary-Survey.com provides salary survey data to management and HR professionals… The NEW site is so easy to use!

ERI Economic Research Institute was founded in 1987 to provide salary survey and cost-of-living research to HR professionals in the form of survey software databases, published salary reports, and online salary surveys. Human resource managers, directors and executives all over the world rely on our compensation analyses to set individual pay, adjust branch office salary structures, and set relocation allowances.

Visit: http://www.eri-salary-survey.com/

Free Salary Tools and Data from SalaryExpert

SalaryExpert.com has some excellent FREE Salary Tools…

All you have to do is click here on Free Salary Tools then select your job title and location, then click the Search button to receive a sophisticated salary report. Benefits, bonuses, and the cost of living will be factored into your salary analysis.

Salary Data

At SalaryExpert they cover both US and Canadian salary data. They offer free salary data that allows you to quickly look up the prevailing wage for a position by zip code, job description or regional and state information. The salary data covers the US and Canada as well as international positions. SalaryExpert welcomes web developers to add these free salary calculators and our free cost-of-living calculators to their own sites.

> For More Info Visit SalaryExpert.com

Cost of Living and Relocation Management Sources

ERI Economic Research Institute provides cost-of-living information to thousands of subscribers, including 80% of the US Fortune 500. ERI researchers review thousands of cost-of-living survey sources as a pay survey analysis service that provides market data via there compensation survey software.

TWO CITY COST-OF-LIVING COMPARISONS

ERI’s Relocation Assessor^® is a desktop software application that compares cost-of-living levels in over 10,000 areas. HR professionals and consultants utilize this software to calculate relocation bonuses (or salary adjustments) for transferred employees. Relationships are derived from thousands of cost of living data points gathered via ERI’s provision of web services, digitization of public records, SalariesReview’s patented online surveys, and other licensed UK, Canadian, US and international cost of living datasets.

> Other ERI Products:

Geographic Assessor

• Geographic pay differentials
• Set branch office salaries

Relocation Assessor

• Compare cost of living levels
• Set relocation bonuses and salary adjustments

Executive Compensation Assessor

• Set executive compensation levels
• Includes data from comparable companies

Nonprofit Comparables Assessor

• Set executive compensation for nonprofits
• Includes over 23 million data points and comparable organizations

Salary Survey Resources from SalaryExpert.com

SalaryExpert provides FREE Job Search software to students and job recruiters, HR execs and professionals all rely on ERI salary survey software to plan compensation increases and set wage/salary structures.

SalaryExpert

SalaryExpert Local Salary Survey Data – Information by State and City: Salary survey software provides salary and cost of living data for compensation planning.

SalaryExpert has some excellent Free Salary Tools. All you have to do is click here on Free Salary Tools then select your job title and location, then click the Search button to receive a sophisticated salary report. Benefits, bonuses, and the cost of living will be factored into your salary analysis.

SalaryExpert FREE Cost of Living Calculator
This free cost of living calculator provides cost of living statistics that compare the cost of living between two cities.

Read More at SalartExpert.com…

You can now get the Salary Resource Widget:
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