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Research Guides: Wage and Salary Survey

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Information Source
Industry Publications
CareerJournal.com

Touted as the "The Wall Street Journal Executive Career Site" this site has a "salary search" section where salary quotes can be searched by job title, zip code or metro area.

Workforce Management

A business magazine for leaders in human resources covering all aspects of personnel/human resources management.

HR Focus

Articles, special reports, interviews, and notes on human resources for members of the American Management Association.

Geographic Reference Report (Latest on Reference: Wages & Salaries) • catalog record
Annual report of costs, wages, salaries and HR statistics in the U.S. and Canada.  Lists median base salaries and cost of living for major metropolitan areas.


Statistic
OES Employment and Wages by Occupation

California State Employment Development Dept. Wages by area and occupation.

National Compensation Survey

Bureau of Labor Statistics. Provides comprehensive measures of occupational earnings; compensation cost trends, benefit incidence, and detailed plan provisions.

Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers

Bureau of Labor Statistics. Provides data on various age, gender and ethnic wage and salary compensation.

Salaries & Wages

U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management.  Salaries tables also available in print (Latest on Reference: Wages & Salaries) • catalog record


Sourcebook America (CD-ROM Workstation)

Find average salary by zip code.

Compustat / Executive Compensation [icon - GSB Network]

Standard & Poor's ExecuComp is a unique database for effective executive compensation analyses. The ExecuComp report library accesses more that 100 up-to-date compensation and financial items such as salary and bonuses for company executives.

News and Journal Articles
ABI/INFORM Global [icon - Stanford Network]

Business Source Complete [icon - Stanford Network]

Directories
Salaries & Wages

U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management.  Salaries tables also available in print (Latest on Reference: Wages & Salaries) • catalog record

Associations
Economic Policy Institute

Publishing the State of Working America this site covers many topics surrounding jobs and employment in the US including salary surveys.

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