Assessor Platform Features

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HRIS Integration

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AI-powered Tools

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Feature List

All Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market Pricing Compensation Management Survey Management Geographic Differentials Executive Compensation Cost of Living Nonprofit Compensation Labor Market Data City Metrics Disability Determinations FLSA Salary Surveys
  Most Requested Feature

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • Get updated Salary Trend Rates with flexible growth modeling using AI  
  • Define pay grades structures and assign jobs to grades using ERI’s new AI Pay Grade Creation tool  
  • Use AI-powered job matching to match your internal job titles to ERI job titles  
  • Create AI-generated job descriptions  

Market Pricing

  • Get survey data on benefits offered, health care coverage, and paid time off (PTO) in Canada and the United States  
  • Use the new Direct Oversight adjustment to apply pay premiums to a job based on the number of direct reports assigned to the role  
  • View similar jobs based on job family (SOC code) and job hierarchy level in the Salary Assessor
  • Easily find and export ERI job titles and descriptions with matches based on keywords, job hierarchy level, job family, and/or industry
  • Use number of employees as the organization size metric for any industry in the Salary Assessor and Executive Compensation Assessor  
  • View data availability for skills and certifications
  • Analyze salaries by level or size in the Global Salary Calculator and extended geographic database locations in the Salary Assessor
  • View total compensation data in the Salary Assessor, including long-term incentives and equity compensation  
  • View year-over-year salary growth rates to track hot jobs in U.S. markets  
  • Modify education levels to customize your compensation analyses for specific jobs  
  • Stack up to three certifications and three skill premiums per job  
  • Add security clearances for precise pay rates  
  • Create hybrid industries specific to your organization  
  • Customize job descriptions for accurate job matching
  • View survey populations and variance statistics with standard errors and standard deviations
  • Adjust the annualized salary trend for more accurate salary planning
  • Share saved lists with one or more users in your account, setting individual permissions
  • Import your lists of benchmark jobs, geographic areas, user-defined averages, and hybrid jobs
  • Export custom reports in Excel or PDF format to share with colleagues or clients
  • Create advanced reports with analyses of compensation for multiple jobs in various geographic locations at once  
  • Analyze one-year job growth for job families by market, both nationally and in a selected location  
  • Get international data for cost of labor analyses around the globe  
  • Plan compensation for a single job in multiple (branch) locations  
  • Calculate the market index for a list of benchmark jobs
  • Benchmark pay at various percentiles with customized pay periods for multiple jobs at once
  • Create hybrid jobs tailored to your organization  
  • Apply shift differentials for day, evening, or swing shifts  
  • Analyze base salary, incentive, and total cash at various percentiles  
  • Find market rates for jobs by location, industry, experience, size, and salary planning date  

Compensation Management

  • Sync pay grade structures and pay grades to jobs in your Employee List
  • Use the new HRIS sync to integrate employee data from your HRIS provider with ERI’s Compensation Management platform  
  • Visualize overall differences in compensation for selected groups in Pay Equity
  • Update employee compensation to align with market data, pay grade midpoint, or pay grade range using the new Employee Alignment report  
  • Customize performance ranges as targets for merit increases in compa ratio and market index plans
  • View pay grade metrics to analyze progressions, ranges, market rates of jobs in grades, and adherence to market
  • Export new notification reports for violations related to FLSA, minimum wage, pay grade and market index, and merit over/under
  • Export a Total Rewards Statement for an individual employee or all employees in a department  
  • Plan benefits administration, including health & wellness benefits, financial & retirement benefits, time-off & leave benefits, mandatory benefits, and additional benefits  
  • Customize columns displayed in the Employee List using predefined or user-defined column views
  • Analyze employees in multiple nations at once  
  • Easily assign multiple Employee Lists to managers and share data between users on the same account
  • Give a single user account-level administration functionality over other users within the same account
  • Store and retrieve data about internal jobs, easily match jobs, and export customized job descriptions  
  • Share custom lists, including Compensation Management and Survey Management lists, with other users on the same account
  • Identify issues with internal compensation at the job or employee level within an organization, check for pay compression, and examine pay equity for protected groups
  • Filter and update specific employee groups
  • Get notified when any detail of your salary plan needs attention  
  • Archive and update your compensation management plan for next year
  • Create and save one or more lists of jobs, areas, and organization data that are stored under a unique profile
  • Allow managers to review and set merit increases/incentives within the system while ensuring HR guidance and control  
  • Understand how salary increases impact the total cost to the organization
  • Plan merit increases, incentive plans, discretionary incentives, and sales incentives  
  • Use templates to easily import departments, pay grades, rewards, budgets, and employee lists to your compensation management plan  
  • Create customized salary planning reports for various departments
  • Manage complex compensation plans from initial planning to final employee communication  

Survey Management

  • Archive imported salary surveys
  • Market price global locations in ERI’s Extended Geographic Database  
  • Classify surveys using job-level market pricing tools
  • Integrate newly calculated market rates with your data to determine market adherence
  • Automatically combine surveys using a selection of accepted methods
  • Upload and manage all your salary surveys in a single survey library

Geographic Differentials

  • Customize geographic differentials to a selected industry sector in the Cost of Labor List  
  • Analyze geographic salary differentials using updated Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs)
  • Export charts and customized graphs to share analyses
  • Search by postal code or cities within a radius of another
  • Display cost of labor comparisons by salary percentages or pay periods and save the list for future use  
  • Select different currencies for more accurate comparisons
  • Create user-defined averages of locations to analyze pay differentials in a specific geographic area
  • Use these new predefined lists to compare geographic differentials: All Major U.S. Cities, Available U.S. Counties, All U.S. MSA Regions, or All U.S. Postal Codes  
  • Calculate geographic cost of labor differentials at various earnings levels for multiple locations at once  

Executive Compensation

  • Export detailed, board-ready PDF reports with graphics and extract large custom data sets to Excel  
  • View charts describing the likelihood of certain pay components in a given executive’s pay package  
  • Create large scale custom extracts of the Executive Compensation Assessor database  
  • Analyze compensation for specific executives in comparable companies including user-selected compensation elements, financial metrics, and additional descriptive statistics  
  • Generate benchmarks relative to groups of peer companies and based on analysis of industry trends  
  • Import job lists and employee salaries to compare with industry benchmarks
  • Analyze total cash compensation with maximum reasonable compensation limits for an organization’s top 15 jobs
  • Combine data from surveys and proxy statements to analyze salary, bonus, non-equity awards, stock awards, option awards, pensions, and other compensation components for top executives’ compensation packages  
  • Calculate base salary, incentive, total cash, long-term incentive, total direct and total compensation data for all executives in our database  
  • Benchmark executive compensation packages for planning and reporting  

Cost of Living

  • Modify assumptions or use default assumptions by salary level in cost of living comparisons
  • Contrast cost of living for multiple earnings levels in up to 1,000 cities at a time as compared to a base area, such as a headquarters or a national average  
  • Generate cost of labor and cost of living reports at metro (MSA) and county levels, plus ZIP, city, state, and national levels  
  • Fully customize the standard of living assumptions for cost of living reports, including rent or ownership
  • View cost of living differentials based on earnings level, home size, home ownership or rental, family size, number of autos, and automobile value
  • Compare the cost of living in detail for two locations based on user-defined assumptions  

Nonprofit Compensation

  • Search, rank, and sort by industry subsector, geographic area, date, and size (revenue, assets, or grants)  
  • Analyze comparables from both nonprofit and for-profit organizations
  • Group peer organizations, including for-profit data, with the detailed compensation comparables needed for a “rebuttable presumption of reasonableness”  
  • Generate benchmark reports with salary data from comparable organizations
  • Review compensation data collected from nonprofit organizations’ IRS Forms 990, 990-EZ, and 990-PF  
  • Set competitive pay for nonprofit executive compensation  

Labor Market Data

  • Search by latitude & longitude (U.S. only) for Minimum Wage data
  • Export state and local Pay Transparency rules to Excel
  • Download extracts of the minimum wage database customized by location  
  • Export recent updates to minimum wage regulations for specific date ranges
  • Get minimum wage alerts if one of your employees drops below a local minimum wage rate  
  • Link to source websites, such as the minimum wage division of the area’s government website
  • Review current minimum wage rates and scheduled updates for the U.S. and Canada, including all states and provinces, counties, and major cities  
  • Research OES prevailing wage rates

City Metrics

  • Get daily rates for short-term serviced housing costs in prime business locations, Daily Subsistence Allowance paid to United Nations employees, Per Diem amounts allowed for US Department of State personnel, local gas prices, as well as hardship and danger pay differentials (for applicable locations)
  • Generate city reports with detailed short-term assignment and long-term housing cost information for popular expat neighborhoods in 95 major global cities
  • Estimate per diems for cities around the world
  • Review current local area economic indicators statistics, such as detailed local inflation, employment, and unemployment rates and changes  
  • View current and historical census data for job families  

Disability Determinations

  • Create a list of alternate jobs based on mean or mode values  
  • Perform job analyses in the new PAQ Analysis module in the Occupational Assessor
  • Search for local employers and find estimates of job availability
  • Generate lists of jobs based on job analyses
  • Change job measures to indicate an individual’s limitations due to injury or other circumstances
  • Perform job analysis based on an individual’s training, experience, and limitations

FLSA

  • Get FLSA alerts if one of your employees appears to be in violation of a regulation  
  • Estimate Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) overtime exemption status at the state and federal level  
  • View minimum salary thresholds required to qualify for exemption from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that took effect on January 1, 2020  

Salary Surveys

  • Get specific survey data from ERI’s Salary Increase Survey, Benefits Benchmarking Survey, or US Government Contractors Salary Survey: Aerospace, Defense, and Information Technology
  • Access industry-specific and job function surveys published annually
  • Participate in individual salary and benefits surveys

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