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Two Free Editions for Subscribers of (ERI) Economic Research Institute... ERI subscribers now have free access to two new Assessor Series beta editions. The Nonprofit Comparables Assessor has the ability to search and review over thirty million individuals' names and compensation found in US publicly available documents in a new FullXwalk tab ; see ERI's October 2008 newsletter . And the redesigned Competency Assessor (Occupational) now contributes weighted subscriber Subject Matter Expert...Read Full Story

ERI's Relocation Assessor ® is used by thousands of companies to compare cost-of-living levels in over 11,500 area worldwide. The Relocation Assessor ® free demo edition provides access to a limited dataset for product evaluation purposes. ERI's Relocation Assessor ® & COL Survey is a desktop software application that compares cost-of-living levels in over 10,000 areas. HR professionals and consultants utilize this software to calculate relocation bonuses (or salary adjustments) for...Read Full Story

Two Free Editions for Subscribers of (ERI) Economic Research Institute... ERI subscribers now have free access to two new Assessor Series beta editions. The Nonprofit Comparables Assessor has the ability to search and review over thirty million individuals' names and compensation found in US publicly available documents in a new FullXwalk tab ; see ERI's October 2008 newsletter . And the redesigned Competency Assessor (Occupational) now contributes weighted subscriber Subject Matter Expert...Read Full Story

CostOfLiving.net is an affiliate to ERI Economic Research Institute which was founded in 1987 to provide compensation, benefits, and Human Resource research for private and public organizations in the form of published reports and software database products. The Top 20 Cities with the highest wage growth. The 2008 average wage growth for the United States is 3.4%. College Station-Bryan, TX saw the greatest wage growth at 9.5%. The geographic wage figures are reported by Bureau of Labor...Read Full Story

Relocation for Employment at Record Low - ERI Economic Research Institute ... A study of 3,000 successful job seekers by the outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray and Christmas found the lowest level of job-seeker relocation in the 25 years it has been tracking this metric. Only 6.9 percent of job-seekers who found employment in the third quarter relocated for the new position, compared to a relocation rate of 13.4 percent in the same quarter a year ago; while this continues a long term...Read Full Story

As Seen On PRLog.Org If you are without a job, now might be the ideal time to review your skills and interests and see how they match various jobs. Available for your personal use at no cost, ERI ( http://www.erieri.com ) offers a tool that has long been used by human resource professionals to assess the specific skills, knowledge sets, and mental and physical capacities needed for various jobs and find which local companies might be potential employers. ERI Economic Research Institute's...Read Full Story

Career Searches for Those with Lessened Capabilities … For those unexpectedly unemployed, ERI’s free job search module of the Occupational Assessor™ eDOT® contains a complimentary application to assist individuals with disabilities in seeking employment, aged workers considering alternative careers, and those returning from the military. Review over 23,000 jobs, matched to 7,000 locations and 12,000,000 employers. Download it free of charge anytime . See why ERI’s employer-supplied data and...Read Full Story

Five Myths about Charitable Giving to Know before You Give from ERI Economic Research Institute ... #1 – Most charitable donations go to help the poor. In 2008, total charitable giving in the US was estimated at about $308 billion, actually down almost 6% from 2007, according to Giving USA. Of this total, only 9% went to Human Services charities. These are the charities that have been the first to report increasing needs for services and a slower growth in contributions in hard economic times...Read Full Story

Number of Jobs in U.S. Projected to Grow, but Where Is Yours? Redmond, WA – The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported last week that total employment is projected to increase by 10 percent from 2008 to 2018 . Even though the Baby Boomers are working longer and delaying retirement, they can’t hold off forever – jobs created when current incumbents need to be replaced are projected to be more than double the number of openings due to economic growth in this 10-year period. Jobs...Read Full Story

AS SEEN ON PRLog.org REDMOND, WA - Rapid increases in the federal government's Consumer Price Index (CPI) often bring expectations of salary increases at least equal to the " cost of living ." But the recently released CPI numbers show some startling economic trends. From October 2008 to October 2009, consumer prices decreased at an annual rate of 0.2%. The cost of household energy decreased 8.5% from October 2008 to October 2009, a dramatic change from huge increases in 2007 and 2008. The...Read Full Story