Online Resources

Abbott & Langer: Average salaries for 230 metro areas for professional, clerical, blue collar and white collar occupations, (p) (708) 672-4200

BLS Clerical Wage Indices: Clerical wage indices manufacturing and non-manufacturing for most metro areas, (p) (202) 606-7828

Actuarial & Technical Solution: Composite data for manufacturing occupations, (p) (631) 471-8655

Adult Workers Retraining The American Workforce, National Conference of State Legisla-tures & Jobs for the Future, (p) (303) 830-2200

Ceridian: human resources outsourcing, payroll management, etc.

Economic Research Institute, Geographic Reference Report (ERT) Average annual salary data for 75+ occupations. Also salary assessor software that calculates salary ranges for hundreds of occupations in the US and Canada. (p) (800) 627-3697

ECS Geographic Report on Office Personnel, Watson Wyatt Data Services: US, regional, state, & metro wage data for selected occupations, (p) (201) 843-1177

Employment and Earnings, US Dept of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Monthly state & metro areas labor force and unemployment statistics, (p) (202) 512-1800

ERIC: Nonprofit association that represents the employee benefit plan interests of America's larg-est employers, (p) (202) 789-1400

Human Resource Magazine, Society for Human Resource Management, (p) (703) 548-3440

Human Resource Executive, Axon Magazine Group, (215) 784-0860

Occupational Compensation Survey for Selected Metro Areas: professional & clerical occupa-tions for 125+ areas. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, (202) 606-7828

Oracle: business-to-business software and services

People Soft: develops HR, enterprise and packaged applications for public and private sectors,

PTI Labor Research: Tracks unionization including petitions/election activity for the entire U.S. A fee based service, (p) (281) 893-9966

Prolease: business services and human resources

Salary.com: Wages for numerous occupations available for metro areas and all zip codes. Na-tional averages supplied as well, (p) (781) 237-2441..

US Department of Commerce County Business Patterns: Employment and payroll data by 2-4 digit SIC Code by county. Can be used to calculate average earnings by industry. (p) (301) 457-4100

US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Provides employment/unemployment data by metro area and county. Wage survey data supplied for about 165 metro areas. Among key menu options are data (employment) and surveys/programs (wages). Telephone numbers: data (p) (202) 691-6392 and surveys/programs (p) (202) 691-6199