ERI Economic Research Institute, or ERI, is a private company with headquarters
in Redmond, Washington

Redmond, Washington

Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, United States, located east of Seattle. The population was 54,144 at the 2010 census,up from 45,256 in 2000....

. It has offices in Redmond, Bellingham

Bellingham, Washington

Bellingham is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is the twelfth-largest city in the state. Situated on Bellingham Bay, Bellingham is protected by Lummi Island, Portage Island, and the Lummi Peninsula, and opens onto the Strait of Georgia...

, Vancouver

Vancouver, Washington

Vancouver is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington. Incorporated in 1857, it is the fourth largest city in the state with a 2010 census population of 161,791 as of April 1, 2010...

, Washington; Newport Beach, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, Washington, DC, and London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

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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. [e.g. 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

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

, while their salary would purchase the least (among the 261 cities they examined) in Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

, NY.

ERI has maintained, updated and revised the Dictionary of Occupational Titles

Dictionary of Occupational Titles

The Dictionary of Occupational Titles, commonly known as the DOT was the creation of the U.S. Employment Service, which used its thousands of occupational definitions to match job seekers to jobs from 1939 to the late 1990s....

 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

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 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

GuideStar

GuideStar USA, Inc. is an information service specializing in reporting on U.S. nonprofit companies. In 2010, their database contained over 5 million IRS Forms 990 filings on 1.9 million organizations.....

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