Business Resources
Salary Information
How much should you pay? How much should you be making? Check these sites to find out more about wage and salary ranges, who makes what, and typical job descriptions.
SalaryExpert.com
Useful benchmark for salary determinations. While this information is of national scope, your local salaries may differ.
Job StarCentral - Salary Information
General and position specific salary surveys.
Salary Source - Online Compensation Information
This is the ultimate tool for assessing the current market value for any of the nearly 350 benchmark positions. Salary Source is the premiere salary survey tool available that uses multiple survey sources.
Salary Surveys (in alphabetical order)
The "Salary Surveys" section provides a comprehensive listing of compensation resources for a wide variety of industries.
Bellingham Wages - Bureau of Labor and Statistics
One of the best locations for local wage rates by occupation. You can also search the BLS Web sie by state.
General Salary Information
Shows national averages for wage rate. This site tends to project slightly higher than comparable Web sites because it is based on larger businesses.
America's Career InfoNet
Wages and trends by occupation and state.
Employee Benefits Survey
Characteristics of employee benefits plans.
Women's Bureau
Reports on earnings by gender and nontraditional occupations for women.
Workforce Management
This site analyzes human resource trends and provides the tools that drive business results. There are a variety of links to articles that are updated monthly. A subscription is required to view some articles.
U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook
The "Handbook" describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.
WorkForce Occupation Explorer
The best site for finding accurate salary information for Washington State or any of the counties. Descriptions of occupations are also available.
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) System
The SOC is used by the U.S. Department of Labor (Bureau Statistics) for defining occupations. This site contains links to descriptions of all of the defined occupations. This is an excellent resource for defining positions within a business.