Salary & Negotiation Research Resources on the Web

Payscale - www.payscale.com - Provides compensation information to help individuals determine the value of their skills and experience on the open job market, both in terms of base salary and other forms of cash and non-cash compensation. The site wizard asks questions about your job function, location, compensation, experience, education, etc. Additional features available for 6-month subscription costing $49 in 2006.

Salary Expert - www.salaryexpert.com - Competitive U.S. career, U.S. executive, U.S. Nonprofit, and International salaries based on various criteria including experience, education, position, industry, and organization size – for fees ranging from $29 to $89 per report.

Salary.com - www.salary.com - salary profiles for a variety of occupations; customized profiles available for a fee.

Relocation Salary Locator - http://www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/salcalc.html - An automatic calculator to figure out salary requirements for different cities throughout the United States.

Job Star's Salary Surveys (including list of printed surveys) - http://jobstar.org/tools/salary/sal-surv.cfm

Salaries Review.com - http://www.salariesreview.com/ - Localized salary reviews by job title - charges $19 fee per report

Salary Source.com - http://www.salarysource.com - fee for searches (approx. $20 per with volume discounts); information provided similar to that on Salary.com; also includes information about size of data sample.

Vault.com Salary Central - feature exclusively for Vault Gold Members that includes recent salary data at top law, consulting, and finance firms, investigated and updated periodically by Vault - www.vault.com

America 's Career InfoNet - http://www.acinet.org/acinet/default.asp - Wage and trend data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and sorted by occupation and location. Last updated in 2002.

Dice.com - http://tinyurl.com/agdrn - Free data queries for IT-related employee salaries and contractor hourly rates.

Real Rates - http://www.realrates.com - Web site with user-input data regarding fees collected on contract engagements - both brokered and independent.

Hotgigs.com - http://www.hotgigs.com - provides low, mid, and high range rates for high-tech contract work based on data submitted by users - limited number of data points for each service profiled.  Subscription Required.

Brief Salary Increase Survey - http://www.careerjournal.com/salaryhiring/negotiate/20050805-sloan.html?cjpo s=salaryhiring_whatsnew

Limited Salary Data for Professionals in Countries around the World, including Asia:  http://salaryexpert.com/seco/index.cfm?Action=DisplayIntlInput&CobrandID=95& area=942

Summary of the 91-page Compensation in Consulting Firms, 10th Edition - 2005 - survey report of 11 benchmark jobs from Abbott, Langer & Associates, Inc. (Report itself retails for $895) - http://www.abbott-langer.com/conssumm.html

Listing of US Salary Surveys - http://www.erieri.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=SurveysSources.USSalary

Riley Guide “Salary Guide and Guidance” section - http://www.rileyguide.com/salguides.html

Monster Board Mid-Career Resources "The Negotiation Coach Library"  - http://midcareer.monster.com/experts/negotiation/

Quint Careers Salary Negotiation and Job Offer Tools and Resources - collection of job offer, salary information, and salary negotiation resources for job-seekers - http://www.quintcareers.com/salary_negotiation.html