Optimize Your Compensation Strategy with Geographic Pay Differentials

Whether you are expanding or have employees relocating, location matters. Compensation planning depends on understanding how geography impacts pay. Learn how the Geographic Assessor can help your businesses succeed anywhere, anytime.
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What Are Geographic
Pay Differentials?

Geographic pay differentials are used for distributed teams and account for the variation in salaries across multiple regions. Understanding these wage differentials allows you to adjust compensation to reflect the cost of labor and market pay trends in specific locations.

Why Use Geographic Pay Differentials?

Employers use geographic pay differentials to determine salaries for employees with similar job descriptions working in different locations. This ensures competitive pay for all employees, no matter where they work.

Why Use Geographic Pay Differentials?

Employers use geographic pay differentials to determine salaries for employees with similar job descriptions working in different locations. This ensures competitive pay for all employees, no matter where they work.

Ensure Competitive Pay

Prevent costly turnover by ensuring your business stays on top of market trends in various locations to avoid overpaying or underpaying employees.
Make informed compensation decisions with precise salary planning and budgeting for location-based pay strategies as you expand or hire in new locations.
Stay aligned with regional wage trends and comply with local labor regulations to reduce the risk of wage violations.

Set Geographic Pay Differentials with ERI

The Geographic Assessor makes it easy to research the cost of labor around the world. Use geographic salary data to set salary structures for branch offices, compare cost of labor and cost of living by area, review minimum wage rates, and more.

Up-to-Date Market Data

View geographic pay differentials for over 10,500 global locations across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and more.

Customizable Pay Reports

Tailor compensation reports with specific data to match your needs and easily calculate geographic salary differentials between multiple locations.

Create Your Own Locations

Combine multiple cities, search for areas within a radius of a location, or use a specific ZIP code to create a custom location to fit your needs.

Price Jobs for Remote Workers

Adjust compensation for remote employees with accurate location-based pay data.

Examine Local Pay Rates

Ensure your compensation strategy meets federal, state, and local regulations. Use our geographic differential calculator to view updated minimum wage rates for U.S. and Canada and examine state and local pay transparency rules.

Effortless Compensation Management

Analyze compensation for employees at various salary levels in multiple locations at once in a single table. Then export customized reports for myriad locations and user-defined areas to PDF or Excel for easy compensation management.
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Geographic Differentials with Data You Trust

Understanding geographic pay differentials is the best way to ensure equitable and competitive compensation across various locations. Geographic pay differentials are utilized to modify national salary survey data and create geographically differentiated salary bands or ranges. Use geographic wage differential data to set branch office salary structures, calculate adjustments for cost-of-living and cost-of-labor differences, and more.

Without the right tools, determining salaries in multiple locations can be complex. At ERI SalaryExpert, we believe in the power of data. We use a combination of survey data conducted by ERI Economic Research Institute and data purchased from third-party survey providers. With compensation data for over 10,500 global locations vetted by PhD-level compensation professionals, we can ensure that you are getting the most accurate and up-to-date salary information.

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See the impact of data-driven geographic pay differentials.
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