Salary Resources and Inforamtion

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Career Development Project

1.  The Riley Guide
    Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet         
       www.rileyguide.com
        Providing free career and employment information since February 1994
            http://www.rileyguide.com/salary.html

[The Clayton Wallis Company]
2,   http://www.claytonwallis.com/otherhr.htm

3.
Salary.com
http://www.salary.com/advice/layoutscripts/advl_display.asp?tab=adv&cat=Cat14&ser=Ser65&part=Par146

4.  From Career Services at Virginia Tech University
        http://www.career.vt.edu/JOBSEARC/Salaries/online.htm

5..  NACE / National Association of Colleges and Employers:
      Collects and publishes the most comprehensive new grad salary information
        NACE Salary Survey SnapshotsBachelor's degree salaries.Survey conducted 4x annually.

6.  Virginia Tech Post-Graduation Report
Career Services' annual survey of VT bachelor's degree graduates closes six months after commencement. Report includes salaries averages and percentiles, by college and by major.

7. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wages, Earnings & Benefits
      BLS is part of the U.S. Dept. of Labor, and collects and "publishes a large amount of information" on this
      topic.]

8. JobStar Salary Information
Links to over 300 salary surveys, some general, and some profession-specific.
Federally funded site administered by the California State Librarian.

9. Salary.com
Select job category and location, see salary ranges; quick and easy to use. Job categories and job titles on two diffent menus; slightly different search mechanism from SalaryExpert.com and WetFeet.com.

10.  Salary.com
Select job category and location, see salary ranges; quick and easy to use. Job categories and job titles on two diffent menus; slightly different search mechanism from SalaryExpert.com and WetFeet.com.

11.  SalaryExpert.com
Basic data free of charge. View salaries for many positions by location.
Same data source as WetFeet.com.
Data drawn from SalaryReview.com which charges a fee for salary reports.
Excellent articles from CareerJournal.com / Wall Street Journal

12.  WageWeb.com
Easy-to-read data in chart form; salaries for HR, finance, engineering, sales / marketing, administrative, information management, healthcare, manufacturing.

13.  WetFeet.com
Basic data free of charge. View salaries for many positions by location.
Same data source as SalaryExpert.com.
Data drawn from SalaryReview.com which charges a fee for salary reports.
Site includes articles related to salary issues and career and job search advice, much of which is geared for college students and new graduates.

14. WetFeet.com - Benchmark your salary
Article explaining salary information sources.
Provides recommendations for additional data sources.

15. JobStar Salary Info
http://jobstar.org/tools/salary/sal-prof.htm

This is the best list of salary surveys on the Net (hands down!); other sites claiming to have big salary surveys actually just link to this one, the Mother of all salary surveys – over 200 of them! Before you choose a career, before you hunt for a job, before you go in for the hiring interview, you'd better know this information!

16. Salary.com
http://www.salary.com/home/layoutscripts/sall_home.asp
           This is an exciting new site which went up as of last Fall; it has a dazzling list of salary surveys, which
           supplements JobStar's lists nicely. If you can't find the survey you're looking for on either of these two
           stellar sites, it's probably is going to be very hard to find on the Internet. Immensely comprehensive!

17. CareerBabe's Salary Sites
   http://www.careerbabe.com/salarysites.html

            This list overlaps JobStar's in many respects, but it does have some novel lists of its own (salaries of men
            vs. women, etc.) It's well worth looking at, if JobStar didn't give you enough to satisfy you.

18. Careers.wsj.com
http://www.careers.wsj.com

The salary surveys are reached through the left hand navigation bar, on the home page.

What distinguishes this site from the other salary sites is the fact that it displays the latest news about salaries and salary trends in various segments of the job market, culled from The Wall Street Journal daily. These articles are very current and also 'very archived' for quite some time back. Browse to see if your field has been in the news. A great service

19. Wageweb Salary Survey Data Online
http://www.wageweb.com/index.html

For those interested in HR salaries, Administrative salaries, Finance salaries, Information Management salaries, Engineering salaries, Healthcare salaries, Sales/Marketing salaries or Manufacturing salaries, here are over 150 benchmark positions in those industries, updated recently. They tell you the 'mean' average salary, average minimum salary, average maximum salary, plus how many companies and employees are the basis for each figure (great information!)

20  Salaries for Web Designers, etc.
http://www.datamasters.com/survey.html

A useful summary of what people make who are creating the world of the web. (Be sure to scroll down the page, as a lot of data is hidden from sight when this survey page first comes up.)

21  The Real Rate Survey
http://www.realrates.com/survey.htm

On this bulletin board, "Computer consultants" (very broadly defined) post what they really made on their last     job     or contract, and where that was. You can search this completely-up-to-date site – by salary, location, platform, etc. A great use of the Web, this site is maintained by Janet Ruhl, author of The Computer Consultant's Workbook. My only wish: That the info was displayed better, in real tables. The display tables were misaligned on both my screen and printer (and maybe on yours as well), but I reckon if the information is important to you, you'll make sense out of it!