Economic Research Institute
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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, and London. The company has 80 employees as of November 2006.
ERI was founded in 1987 by Dave Thomsen.
ERI provides salary ranges for non-profit and for-profit corporations for any of over 5000 job titles. Data is provided for the United States, Canada, and much of Europe, with specifics for over 7000 locations. 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. [1], [2], [3]
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) in Manhattan, NY.[1]
ERI has revised the Dictionary of Occupational Titles abandoned by the Department of Labor and this is part of the data for its product Occupational Assessor.
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[edit] List of Products
- Salary Assessor
- Geographic Assessor
- Relocation Assessor
- Nonprofit Survey
- Salary Surveys
- Occupational Assessor
- Executive Compensation Assessor
[edit] Sources of Information
ERI uses information published by the IRS and other salary surveys. Data is updated continually, and customers get frequent updates.
[edit] References
- ^ Florence Kizza. "Where should a new grad set up shop?", Greentree Gazette, 2005-07-01.
