compensation - briefing
Compensation research is a vital component of compensation planning. There is so much more to compensation than base salary: Bonuses, Stock Options, Benefits, etc. The following sites are great resources.
| A very good look at executive compensation, including direct compensation (salary + bonus), other compensation (Restricted Stock + LTIP - (Long Term Incentive Plan)); Stock Options granted, expiration dates, $ value of options; and Option Exercises (year, # shares acquired on exercise, value realized, # of unexercised exercisable, value of unexercised exercisable, and value of unexercised unexercisable). | |
| Contains salary information on thousands of job titles, based on title and geographic location. Also links to hundreds of publicly available compensation surveys that provide relevant salary information for selected job categories. | |
| America's Career InfoNet | Offers wage and employment trends, occupational requirements, state-by-state labor market conditions, millions of employer contacts nationwide. |
| Career Journal | The Wall Street Journal's career site offers salary and hiring trends by industry and by job function. |
| Valuation Resources | The survey provides base compensation, extra compensation, and total compensation for the CEO/president and the top executives responsible for marketing, sales, operations, finance, information systems, human resources, and engineering, respectively. Median, upper quartile, and lower quartile compensation is presented for each position. |
| Aspen Publishers | The Human Resources Section has a number of Executive Compensation and Officer Compensation reports for sale. |
| Salary Expert | Free and Fee-Bases salary tools and surveys. Includes international data, new college grad offer data, cost of living data, and benefits data. |
| Salaries Review | Provides salary ranges for thousands of job titles by geographic location in the U.S. and Canada using government and industry salary surveys. Data can be purchased online. |
| Economic Research Institute | Offers a comprehensive listing of salary surveys available
from a wide variety of sources, covering the U.S. and Canada. |
| Wage Web | Offers an on-line salary service which provides information on over 170 benchmark positions with data from over 1,400 member companies. |