- Economic Research Institute
ERI Economic Research Institute, or ERI, is a private company with headquarters in
Redmond ,Washington . It has offices in Redmond, Bellingham, Vancouver, Washington;Newport Beach ,California ,Washington, DC , andLondon .ERI Economic Research Institute provides competitive salary levels for non-profit and for-profit corporations for any of over 5000 job titles. Data is provided via interactive Assessor software permitting control over all variables (title, job description, location, industry, size, etc.) for the United States, Canada, and much of Europe, with specifics for over 7000 locations and virtually every industry covered by SIC and NAICS codes. ERI also provides geographic analyses of salaries and costs-of-living. Customers buy a license to use the data for a year or more. ERI-provided data has been the source for many news articles. [eg. [http://www.greentreegazette.com/ExecutiveBriefing/0607NewGrad.aspx] , [http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/061115/20061115005312.html?.v=1] , [http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060622/BUSINESS06/606220380] and they issue a quarterly report on top executive pay trends in The Wall Street Journal's executive career site CareerJournal.com.
In 2005, ERI published that new college graduates would have the greatest effective income in
Knoxville ,Tennessee , while their salary would purchase the least (among the 261 cities they examined) inManhattan , NY. [cite news | url=http://www.greentreegazette.com/ExecutiveBriefing/0607NewGrad.aspx | title=Where should a new grad set up shop? | publisher=Greentree Gazette | author=Florence Kizza | date=2005-07-01 ]ERI has maintained, updated and revised the
Dictionary of Occupational Titles abandoned by the Department of Labor in 1992 and this is part of the data for its product "Occupational Assessor".List of Products
*"Salary Assessor"
*"Geographic Assessor"
*"Relocation Assessor"
*"Nonprofit Survey"
*"Salary Surveys"
*"Occupational Assessor", including updated Dictionary of Occupational Titles
*"Executive Compensation Assessor"ources of Information
ERI uses information published by the
IRS , mining web sites, leased datasets, incumbent contributed data, loan and employment applicant data, and public and privately published cost-of-living and compensation surveys. Data is updated continually, and customers get completely new datasets at least every quarter.ERI's website provides a free interface to retrieve scans of the tax returns for individual nonprofit organizations (called "form 990"'s), as does
Guidestar . [ cite web|url=http://www.eri-nonprofit-salaries.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NPO.Search | title=Nonprofit organization information search form| publisher=Economic Research Institute| accessdate=2007-08-19]References
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* [http://www.erieri.com Company Website]
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