National Compensation Analysis Series: Salary Growth by Job Level and Job Family
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Introduction

Expanding on ERI SalaryExpert’s National Compensation Forecast, the current paper examines 3-year salary growth trends for 22 job families and 16 job hierarchy levels.

Compensation Analysis

This paper provides a more granular perspective on compensation growth, starting with analyses of job levels and job families individually and then examining growth by hierarchical level within each job family. 

Growth

Growth is calculated on an annualized basis, with 2025 values representing ERI SalaryExpert’s January 2025 data release for the Assessor Series®. Values for 2024, 2023, and 2022 represent growth from January 1 to December 31 of each year.

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About SalaryExpert

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Data are gathered from 3 sources: surveys we conduct, surveys purchased from other organizations, and reports from publicly traded organizations.

SalaryExpert conducts advanced analytics to accurately capture the market value of each occupation in our salary survey database

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Data Collection

Data are gathered from 3 sources: surveys we conduct, surveys purchased from other organizations, and reports from publicly traded organizations.

Data Verification

After compiling the data, we conduct QA to ensure data is vetted, verefied, and of the highest quality.

Analysis

SalaryExpert conducts advanced analytics to accurately capture the full scope of each occupation in our salary survey database.

Quality Assurance

SalaryExpert analysts double-check the results for each job every quarter. Our verified salary survey information helps set the benchmark pay.

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