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Accounting

The (www.cfonet.com) Compensation Survey from CFO Magazine provides lots of data on what CFOs are making. Reports are complied using data from hundreds of CFOs and their departments, and the results include comparisons by region, industry, and job title.


Advertising/Marketing

Adage.com, the online arm of well-known print publication Ad Age, offers extensive salary information. Included are entry-level salaries, executive salaries, employment figures for major agencies, and average base salaries broken out by gender and region, and gender and agency size.


Aviation

This Aviation Pay Scale Report from the Airline Employment Assistance Corps includes more than 50 aviation positions. It describes the career type, job title, salary range, and education requirements for each position.

Aviation Week's (www.aviationnow.com) includes pilot pay by type of aircraft, airline management pay scales, and hiring forecasts for select airlines.

Aviation Today surveyed 907 aviation maintenance workers for their Aviation Maintenance Annual Salary Report. This report includes experience, pay, raises, and benefits.


CEOs

SiliconValley.com's special report "What the Boss Makes" details the salaries of all of the head honchos at the top new media firms. They also include special reports on women in Silicon Valley, top money makers, and executive bargaining strategies.

The AFL-CIO created Executive Paywatch to function as a both a watchdog and town crier of CEO salaries ("If you think America's corporate executives are out of control with their lavish salaries. . .").


Engineering/Chemists

You can read a free summary of "Compensation Report for Consulting Engineering Firms" from Abbot, Langer & Associates, which includes pay rates for various job titles in the field. Data for this report was gathered from 732 firms.

You'll find the detailed results of the American Chemical Society's 1999 survey of salaries and employment status for chemists here, including charts for early career pay gains, ten-year jobless rate, and median salaries by degree, gender, and industry.

This article containing comprehensive engineering salary information is available through CMP Publications Inc.'s Electronic Engineering Times Interactive online publication.

IEEE's 1999-2000 membership salary and fringe benefits survey is available online. You'll also find information on how to order a copy of the full survey results, along with prices for members and non-members.


Financial

The Treasury Management Association's annual "Treasury Management and Banking Services Salary Report" is based on feedback from over 1,700 treasury managers and bankers. Compensation data is analyzed according to age, gender, experience, and bonus trends. To view this 2000 report, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer.

Creative Financial Staffing provides a no-frills guide to national averages of 2000 salaries for accounting positions, from CFO to accounting clerks.


General/Multidiscipline

Although the Economic Research Institute has many salary surveys for sale, they do offer a list of maximum career earnings for a selected "benchmark positions." These are arranged alphabetically and include corporate attorney, chemical laboratory tech, electrical engineer, graphic designer, RN, and secretary.

Salary-Survey vendor CompINSIGHT, by Personnel Systems, provides surveys that are of particular interest to Canadian businesses and recruits. To check other surveys and information about salary increments in the Canadian market, click here.

Although they sell detailed salary reports, free salary information on a number of jobs and industries can be found at Abbott, Langer & Associates. Once you're on the homepage the easiest way to get to the free information is to scroll down the section labeled "Select the report to view," and pick a topic. When you click on a particular topic's page, you should see a section called "free summary information."

If you're seriously considering relocating then you'll want to visit The International Salary Calculator, part of the HomeFair site. Enter your current location, salary, and city you're thinking of moving to, and you'll be provided with a sometimes surprising comparison of how your current salary translates to the new location. For example, according to the calculator, if someone lives in Brooklyn, NY and makes $50,000 annually, she would need $52,437 in Alexandria, VA to maintain her current lifestyle.

Wageweb is an excellent source for salary surveys in over eight different categories, including healthcare and human resources. You'll also find information on how to join and participate in Wageweb's salary survey services.


Health Care

Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine provides detailed experience data. Data from each of seven job categories is analyzed according to a variety of factors, such as hours worked per week, industry experience, and annual compensation.


High Tech

This 1999 report from The Society for Technical Communication provides comprehensive compensation statistics from the U.S. and Canada. You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it.

There's a lot of useful information in the ASP's (Association of Support Professionals) 1999 Tech Support Salary Survey but since it's a pdf you have to have Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to download and view the document. If you don't have Acrobat Reader, click here You can also gain access to the 2000 Tech Support Salary Survey for a "non-member" price of $60.

You'll find a good cross-section of information systems salaries at DataMasters' 2000 Computer Industry Salary Survey. Information is arranged geographically according to region, and three figures--median low, region median, and median high--are given for each job title.

J&D Resources, Inc. provides a thorough information tech salary survey for a variety of positions, using Memphis, TN as a "national average." You can also link to a specific salary survey for AS/400 programmers.

Another resource for AS/400 compensation data is Midrange Computing. They provide a variety of salary surveys for AS/400 professionals.

If you're looking for MIS compensation stats, check out PSR Inc.'s site, where you'll find two sample charts of their "2000 Mid Year MIS Compensation Study." Information is available here to order a full report.

The Radford Benchmark Survey is the technology industry's definitive resource of competitive intelligence for director-and-below level positions. The Benchmark database includes one million-plus incumbents from more than 1,100 participants and 330 job families.

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Updated 12/12/05 courtesy of Jessica Sneed, Synopsys

 


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