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.
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Salary and Benefits Survey Reports
A source of fee-based salary information for a variety of job fields that offers free overviews. After selecting a job field, click on Free Summary Data.
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Salary.com
Provides access to online comprehensive compensation information for individuals. Users may create a salary report by selecting a job category and ZIP Code and/or State and Metro area from the drop down menus on the Salary Wizard page. Salary Advice and Job Links is also available on the site.
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WageWeb
An online salary service providing information on over 170 benchmark positions. Salary information is broken down by category.
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Are You Ready to Negotiate Your Salary?
The quiz asks questions about salary negotiation. The quiz may help you see how prepared and ready your are to negotiate. Review the list of Top Ten Tips for a Successful Salary Negotiation (Content: Career Information | Subject: Benefits / Comp.
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.
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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
Content: Career Information | Subjects: Benefits / Comp., Housing / Relocation
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.
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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
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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.
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Benefits Link
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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.”
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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 ]
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