Salaries, Wages, & Employee Benefits

 This section focuses on the surveys that cover the monetary pay for various occupations or professions. Employee Benefits and other forms of non-monetary pay are included in some of these surveys, but works that focus on these are in a separate Tab section.

1. American Salaries and Wages
   
   By using the geographical outline, which is arranged by state and then city, it is possible to get a range of wages for specific occupational titles. Not all occupations are covered for each city. The main body of the work is arranged by occupational title. For each item, the level of experience, geographic location, wage pay period, and a low, median, and high wage is given. The source and date of the information is also provided. For those who are interested in the occupation more than the location, use the outline of contents, which is a subject approach to the occupational titles. There are several useful appendices. The two most useful ones are the list of sources and the salary conversion table. The list of sources can be used to get a complete citation to the salary survey of a particular profession, then check the ASU Library online catalog to see if we own the latest edition. The salary conversion table gives the hourly, weekly, monthly and annual salaries. This is critical since the main section has no consistency in the pay period used for the wages.
   
   
2. ProQuest Statistical
   
   This is an index to several microfiche collections of statistics published by stale and local governments, the Federal Government, and international agencies. Some of the items are full text online.
   
   
3. AMS salary report covering management, professional, information systems, data processing, office/clerical and secretarial positions
   ASU Library has this work under various titles back to 1985.
   
   This salary survey has been done by the American Management Society since the 1970's. The titles have varied over the years, but are generally in the same call number. The general occupation categories listed in the title are actually 103 occupations covering 199 jobs. Salary figures are included for starting, average, and several steps in between. The geographic breakdown is national, some regions, and 90 cities/metropolitan areas.
   
   
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   CPC Salary Survey 1987-1995
   
   Each issue has a brief summary before the extensive tables on the salaries. The focus of this work is the average yearly salary offerings to new graduates. Tables also show the salaries by gender, by industry, and by function within companies. A very helpful source.
   
   
5. Employment and Earnings
   print edition
   
   This publication does provide wage and salary information for most job titles in nonagricultural establishments. Some tables are actual wages and other are seasonally adjusted. The January issue provides the annual summary tables for the previous year. There is also an annual supplement that provides summary information arranged by Industrial Classification Codes.
   
   
6. Executive Paywatch
   
   This page is sponsored by the AFL-CIO, a trade union. "A working families' guide to monitoring and curtailing the excessive salaries, bonuses and perks in CEO compensation packages." This is an interesting and useful sight.
   
   
7. JobStar
   
   "JobStar began as JobSmart, a federally funded project, to serve Northern California. With Library Services & Construction Act Funds (administered in California by the State Librarian), we launched JobStar: Northern California Job Search Guide, April 17, 1996, on the World Wide Web and changed our name to JobStar in 1999. JobSmart: California Job Search Guide now offers job search information and community resources for three counties of California:" This job hunting site has several special pages just devoted to salary surveys. The address above leads you to the main salary survey page. From there you can go to the General Surveys  or to the Professional Salary Surveys. The salary surveys are links to the web version of the survey or are the citation to the original publication that is the survey results.
   
   
8. National Compensation Survey
   
    This is a survey integrates the survey data collected for the Occupational Compensation Survey, the Employment Cost Index, and the Employee Benefits Survey. It covers civilian workers in private industry establishments and State and local governments, but excludes private households, the Federal government, and agriculture. About 36,000 establishments in the 50 United States and the District of Columbia with one or more workers, regardless of industry are included. The sample data will be selected from 154 metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas designed to represent the United States.
   
   
9. Wages by Area and Occupation
   
   The Bureau of Labor Statistics collects data on wages for various geographical areas and by occupation. This is the web site for the data. A related publication is the Quarterly Census of Employment Wages.
   
   
10. When no recent survey can be found
    
    • Check the pay ranges of public employees and use actual job notices to get an idea of appropriate salaries. Suggested sources:
      
      
      1. Arizona Workforce Connection
      2. State & Local Government on the Net