What background regarding ERI can I share with management when discussing my organizations use of ERI data?
ERI Economic Research Institute serves over 7,000 corporate subscribers and thousands of consultants, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies in a role that was once filled (internally) by corporate statisticians, operations researchers, wage economists, industrial engineers, compensation analysts, and similar middle-level management support positions that have largely disappeared from Human Resource Departments. At its simplest, ERI collects data from thousands of available salary and cost-of-living surveys, and prepares reports and software analyses by which managers may make decisions. ERI is an outsource of compensation research. See About ERI for more information.