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Assuming
you
have a great resume, and you
give a great interview, you might get a job offer! If you can't defend your
value during salary negotiations using DATA, you will lose!
Click to explore links for each
area:
1. SALARY NEGOTIATION
2. GOVERNMENT SALARY SOURCES
3. SALARY RESEARCH &
INFORMATION
4. EXECUTIVE SALARY INFORMATION
5.
SEVERANCE STUDIES
6. RELOCATION AND MOVING
7. NEW GRADUATES
8. BY FIELD
The Salary Quiz
.The
title of Jack Chapman's book is "Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1000 a
Minute." He's serious.
Salary
Negotiation Strategies from JobStar
--Don't play this game without knowledge. Lists links
and book recommendations to help you in negotiations for salary and compensation.. Online
tools found here include the Salary
I.Q. test.
Salary
Negotiation Tips
-Salary Negotiation tips plus links to several salary information sites
Job
Offer Negotiation Strategies by Dave Jensen
--Explains how the salary "game" works
Interviewing FAQs from
CareerPerfect.com
--Learn about interviewing techniques, the best way to
discuss salary, how to delay accepting an offer while waiting to hear from another
prospective employer, and how to handle a counter-offer from your current employer.
Tips
for Salary Negotiation
--Learn several tips and the process for a successful negotiation from Drake Beam Morin
2.
GOVERNMENT SALARY SOURCES
Bureau of Labor Statistics
--The Bureau of Labor Statistics collects all kinds of
data on wages, unemployment, and other employment trends. Search through their press
releases, regional data, and other areas for salary and compensation information.
Occupational
Employment and Wage Estimates, U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics
--This data provides detailed occupational
employment and wage estimates for 334 metropolitan areas.! You can also go to the main
OES page and access their Sample of Industry
Staffing Pattern Estimates, the new Standard Occupational Classification, and the
National Compensation Survey
Government Sources
-The government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics & Occupational Outlook Handbook has salaries for over 250 popular
jobs
Salary.com
-The top site for locating salary data for just about anything!
Salary
Expert.com
-SalaryExpert.com offers free wage, benefit, and cost-of-living survey information. Find accurate data on a site that shows its
sources!
Wage Web
-Over 150 jobs with salary information listed, based on data from over 800 organizations
JobSmart
-Great site for many different types of positions and what they pay
Wall
Street Journal Interactive Edition's Salary Comparisons
-In addition to many other financial and career resources, offers reprints of salary
comparison charts from National Business Employment Weekly and other sources. From The
Wall Street Journal—select the "Salaries and Hiring Info from the top
tabs
Career City
-Tons of related links and surveys for many fields
Compensation and Working Conditions On
Line
-Bureau of Labor Statistics reports, tables and analyses from 1996 on. Industry, region and
function-specific studies of compensation, benefits and work issues.
Salary Guide from
AccounTemps
--Is money your business? Look at this summary of the
Robert Half and Accountemps Salary Guide, updated annually. You can order a free complete
guide online.
EE
Times Salary Surveys
--The site for Engineers and Technical Management
shares data from their 1996, 1997, and 1998 salary surveys, including career information.
You can also use the 1998
Paychecker to get a mean salary based on your age, amount of experience, region, a
particular technical skill, and your current job title.
Medical Device &
Diagnostic Industry Magazine 1998 Salary Survey
--The results of Medical Device and Diagnostic
Magazine's annual salary survey. Go ahead and estimate a salary level for someone in the
medical device industry using this
Medical Device Link Salary
Estimator. For the healthcare/medical/biotech fields use this MedZilla Salary Database. Database is
searchable.
Oil-Link's
1998 Salary Survey
--Not for the oil industry! Results of a survey,
showing results by type of organization, education level, job title, geographic location,
and then charts of low-median-high salaries by job area and level of experience.
Links to other salary surveys done by professional associations for more information and
comparison.
Pencom Systems
--For high-tech folks. You can take their 1999
Interactive Salary Survey and compare you current pay, skill set, and industry to
the same information from other participants. Those who participate can also sign up for
Pencom's new bimonthly online magazine.
Salary Surveys
for IT/MIS Professionals
--Many links to salary sources for IT/MIS people
U.S.
Office of Personnel Management Salaries and Wages
--List pay schedules for employers who do a lot of
contract work with the Federal government. Data for 1999, 1998, and 1997 Federal pay
schedules.
Computer salaries
-Computer industry salaries by industry
KForce's
Salary Survey
-Salaries for IT, Finance & Accounting ,
Legal, Human Resources, Engineering, HealthCare, Scientific, Pharmaceutical,
Executive Solutions, Insurance & Investment
Compensation and
Benefits Reports, Abbott, Langer & Associates
--Free summary of salary data in many occupations.
Select "SUMMARY REPORT" to view
National
Committee on Pay Equity
-Links to sites with salary
info
U.S. Department of
Labor Women's Bureau
-Info about Equal Pay from the government
Salary
Survey Sites from HR Plaza
There are only 7 disciplines / position levels, but it
is some interesting information.
Yahoo!'s
collection of salary benchmark and comparison resources.
While many end up drawing on info from salary.com and homefair.com
there are other industry- and function-specific salary data
sources listed here.
SalaryExpert.com
Perhaps the best of the bunch. This site offers good salary info
and an analysis of how salary data is collected and presented. A
free downloadable database allows viewing of salary data for over
30,000 job titles in 45,000 US/Canadian locations and over 200
countries. They even offer a PDA version so you can ponder
compensation on the go.
4. EXECUTIVE SALARY INFORMATION
JobStar Executive Salary Reports
A frequently updated collection of industry-specific salary reports. Brief descriptions of
each report and its source.
Business
Week Magazine's 49th Annual Executive Pay Survey
--This article called "Is Greed Good?" You
can also get many other reports are available for a fee through their archive service.
Forbes' Magazine: Corporate America's
Highest Paid CEOS
-- Forbes' annual listings of the 800 Best Paid CEO's You can see the data many ways: company
name, name of an individual, rank by total compensation, state, or industry.
CFO Compensation Survey
--Survey by CFO Magazine and William M. Mercer Inc. This includes several
articles with trends, lists of top earners, and an interactive survey to see where you are
in regards to the current market.
CEO Contracts
-- Comparison of CEO employment contracts for Fortune
500 companies. Search by company ticker, name, or director's name, or company list by name.
Good links to additional compensation info.
Executive Compensation Advisory Services
(ECAS)
--"The leading source of intelligence on senior
management pay and human resources strategies for nearly 20 years." They
provide you with "premier information and advice on compensation and human
resources trends, issues, and competitive practices. You can review some of the bonus
reports available under Publications for free, like the summary data on
employment agreements offered by automotive companies.
Ecom, the Executive Compensation
Database
--You can search by company or ticker
name if you are looking for a particular organization. If you are more
interested in covering a particular state, industry, or industry sector,
all those options are also available so you can compare varied locations
or organizations in one sector. The information includes name, title,
salary and bonuses, and the year that the information represents.
- 2000
Report on Local CEO Pay
--Chart of the top 100 earners in the Washington DC area
based on 1999 proxy reports. The chart breaks out salary from total
compensation on the front page, but click on any CEO's name to get a full
report for each person, including salary, bonus, options, education, and
career highlights. Look carefully in the chart to find links to the
article introducing all this and links to the Washington Post 200.
5.
SEVERANCE STUDIES
Lee Hecht Harrison's National Severance
Study
This top national outplacement company, in partnership with Personnel Journal, conducted a
comprehensive, nationwide survey on corporate severance practices. 3,000+ respondents
provided information.
6. RELOCATION AND MOVING
Relocation calculator
-Recalculates your current salary needs if you were to relocate
Datamasters' Cost of Living Comparison
Tool
Cost of living comparisons for 399 U.S. job markets.
JobOptions.com's
Salary Information Links Page
A manageable list of salary and relocation resources.
Microsoft
Network's HomeAdvisor
Real estate listing and services with resources grouped under themes like: Getting
Started, Offer & Closing, Neighborhoods and Homes. Financing and mortgage rate
information provided and the Home Tracker service provides free e-mail notices of homes
that fulfill your requirements.
Homefair
Seven interactive tools and five re-location or home buying resource guides. The Salary
Calculator, Moving Calculator and Free City Reports are most popular. Many other sites
rely on Homefair as the source for their relocation information.
Money Magazine's Best
Places to Live Ranking
While this site's cost-of-living computing relies on Homefair (above), its analysis of
best (and worst!) places to live is compelling and complete original research. The
"Find Your Best Place" section matches your criteria with appropriate cities.
USA
CityLink
A comprehensive listing of U.S. states and cities with both travel and relocation
information. USA CityLink is a gateway to Web sites by states and cities, rather than an
editorial comparison of different spots
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Employment Review's Annual
Salary Survey
- --This doesn't have specific occupations, but you can
see the differences between cities with its regional comparison.
Virtual
Relocation
A "one-stop-shopping" relocation information and services site. Has original
content, compiled statistics, relocation calculators and links to many hundreds of useful
sites.
The
Escape Artist
"The site for anyone interested in moving to another country - for "expatriates
overseas job seekers, tax exiles, adventurers & freedom seekers"
- ERI's Survey Input
Assessor
- --There are links from the Economic Research Center to
over 200 resources for U.S. and Canadian salary surveys, plus other International Salary
Surveys, and Cost of Living resources. Can be helpful reference resource, particularly for
non-US salary information.
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7. NEW GRADUATES SALARY
INFORMATION
JobWeb - News for Job
Seekers
--National Association of Colleges and Employers reports on
hiring and salary trends for new college and professional graduates by major
Press Release - NACE
Salary Survey
--Highlights of the National Association of Colleges and
Employers survey of salaries for recent graduates. The report itself is
available only to subscribers.
Annual Report - Starting
Salaries
--Salary offers for California State University graduates by
major
USC
Business School Employment Report
--Starting salaries & summer job salaries for USC graduating
students.
8. BY FIELD
For
Administrative and Office Salaries Information
Salaries for Starting Teachers
Broadcast,
TV/Radio Salaries:
For
computers and the Internet Salary Info
Consultant
Salaries
For
Engineers
For
MIS Professionals
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