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.

ERI provides competitive salary levels 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.

1 List of Products
2 Sources of Information
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] List of Products

Salary Assessor
Geographic Assessor
Relocation Assessor
Nonprofit Survey
Salary Surveys
Occupational Assessor, including updated Dictionary of Occupational Titles
Executive Compensation Assessor

[edit] Sources 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 frequent updates.