Human Resources & Organizational Behavior

Offers "comprehensive measures of occupational wages; employment cost trends, and benefit incidence and detailed plan provisions. Detailed occupational earnings are available for metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, broad geographic regions, and on a national basis. The index component of the NCS (ECI) measures changes in labor costs. Average hourly employer cost for employee compensation is presented in the ECEC."

Search by job title and location to find a base salary range.
Note link with info on methodology used to create this database.

Employment and wage estimates for over 800 occupations.

This newsletter reports brief results of salary surveys, both general surveys and surveys of particular positions.

Daily "abstracts and links to workplace-related news stories covered in the major media." Use searchable archive to do keyword searches for specific issues.

"The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services."
Caution: CPI data is provided for specific places in the U.S.--however, you can't use these figures to compare cost of living between two places.

This monthly BLS report provides the real earnings of U. S. workers by adjusting changes in earnings to changes in the Consumer Price Index.

Links to state labor market information.

Includes employment projections by industry sector, occupation group, post-secondary education/training category. Also, info on industries & occupations with high employment growth or decline.

Labor productivity stats for broad business sectors and specific industries.

Offers "employment trends, wages, detailed industries, and jobs in demand." Also, economic info on Michigan regions and counties.