Evaluating Your Benefits Package

This article from College Grad Job Hunter provides an overview of employee benefits. The article covers traditional benefits such as medical insurance, vacation, and holidays. Non-traditional benefits such as profit sharing, tuition reimbursement, and health clubs, etc. are also covered.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

BestJobsUSA.com Salary Survey 2003

Employment Review®’s Annual Salary Survey asked professionals what they earn. Professionals from more than 40 industries responded to the survey, which was hosted on BestJobsUSA.com. Some of the categories included years of experience, education and raises. Respondents came from all over the United States as well as Canada. The largest number of responses came from California, New York, Massachusetts, Texas and Illinois. Find results by … [ Read more ]

Paycheck Check-Up

Salary data that compares men’s and women’s average annual salaries across seventy-eight professions.

Salaries by Industry – CareerJournal

From WSJ, salary data and articles by industry and job. Featured sections include regional profiles, negotiating for more, closing the deal, and hot employment issues.

Economic Research Institute

This site provides searchable information on salary and wage survey, cost of living, geographic differential analyses for relocation. Relocation Assessor provides detailed comparisons on subjects such as, consumables, health services, income taxes, and others

Homefair.com Salary Calculator

I love this calculator. Choose two cities and whether you prefer rent or own and it will tell you how much you will need to make in the second city to equal $100,000 in the first.

U.S. Cost-of-Living Comparisons

Provides same service as the Homefair.com salary calculator but for cost of living in general rather than just housing related costs. Latest data is for year 2000 and covers 399 cities

Yahoo! Cities Comparison

Lets you select two cities and compare them by cost of living, real estate, and quality of life. More comprehensive than the salary calculators alone.

Benefits Link

Employee Benefit Research Institute

“To contribute to, to encourage, and to enhance the development of sound employee benefit programs and sound public policy through objective research and education.”

Employee Benefits Survey

The Employee Benefits Survey (EBS) of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) covers the incidence and characteristics of employee benefit plans. In even- numbered reference years, EBS data are collected for small private establishments (those employing fewer than 100 workers) and State and local governments (regardless of employment size). In odd-numbered years, data are collected for medium and large private establishments (those employing 100 workers … [ Read more ]