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Salary and Compensation Web Sites
- Surfing For Salaries
- Salary.com
- BenefitsLink - information and services for employers sponsoring employee benefit plans, companies providing products and services for plans, and participating employees.
- Business Insurance - weekly newsmagazine on employee benefit, managed health care, and corporate risk news.
- Employee Benefit News - up-to-date information on a range of benefits issues, including management, career advancement, and COBRA.
- Employee Benefit Research Institute - nonprofit organization dedicated to public policy research and education on economic security and employee benefits.
- SmartBenefits - useful toolkit for benefits administrators.
- Wageweb - online salary service that provides information on over 150 benchmark positions.
- CompGeo Online - for a fee ranging from $39-$219, you can obtain a detailed report of your worth as an employee.
- HomeFair Lifestyle Optimizer - discover the ideal place for you to live, based on factors such as your income, housing preferences, city size and climate.
- JobSmart Negotiation Strategies - tips to help you justify your request for a higher salary.
- JobSmart Salary Surveys - links to over 200 general and profession-specific salary surveys.
- Quicken.com's Insider Trading Information - get information on the compensation of top executives at publicly traded companies.
- Pencom 1998 Interactive Salary Survey - for technology professionals. Includes an excellent, detailed salary calculator.
- SalaryMaster.com - this company offers employee-side salary negotiations for technical professionals.
- U.S. News & World Report Estimated Starting Salaries - list of beginning pay for recent college graduates in a variety of fields.
- The Wage Gap: Women's and Men's Earnings - read about the difference in salaries offered to men and women for the same positions and how that gap has evolved through the years.
- Yahoo! Salary Comparison - find the equivalent to your current salary in other cities across the country.
- Economic Research Institute - users can order (for $50 apiece) a number of research reports related to salary, compensation, and relocation.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics - The Web site of this government bureau contains useful figures and reports about compensation and other labor-related topics.
- Compensationlink.com - The Library has an abundance of links to informative sites on compensation, benefits, laws and regulations, salary surveys, labor relations, and a number of other areas of interest.
Computer/IT
Realrates.com
Healthcare
American Physical Therapy Association
Data on physical, occupational and respiratory therapists, and speech language pathologists.
Advertising
Advertising Age
Aviation
Aviation Maintenance
Engineering
EE Times Online
Stats for design and development engineers.
Legal
National Law Journal
General info
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
A comprehensive database, in terms of variety of positions covered, but it only provides national averages. There is a good deal of information, however, on economic trends and additional sources that you can investigate on your own.
Other survey sources
Economic Research Institute
Really interested in doing your own digging? ERI throws their rolodex at you, providing listings for hundreds of sites -- some worthwhile, many not. Ideal for independent souls with lots of patience. Happy hunting.
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