Wages and Salaries: Home

• International Labor Comparisons 

   

  Conference Board. (Produced by US Bureau of Labor Statistics until 2013.) Annual reports on labor compensation, productivity and competitiveness in manufacturing industries in 33 countries. Statistics from different countries are harmonized into a single framework to allow accurate comparisons between countries.
   

Bureau of Labor Statistics: useful information on compensation data gathered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Some BLS sites of interest:

• Current Employment Statistics: average hourly earnings for production workers by state and metropolitan area
• Employee Benefits Survey: employee benefits in private, small, medium, and large companies
• Employer Costs for Employee Compensation: Average cost of wages per hour for major occupational and industry group. Available on a national level.
• National Compensation Survey: wages for specific levels of work for 450 occupations on an hourly and annual basis available on national, state and metropolitan level. Details include union status, incentive status, establishment size and type - excludes federal government employees, and those employed in agriculture, fishing, forestry industries as well as private household workers. Data is for establishments with more than 50 workers and actual rather than standardized work hours are reported.
• Occupational Employment Statistics: average earnings of employees on an hourly and annual basis for 750 occupations available by state and metropolitan areas - excludes those employed in agriculture, fishing, forestry industries as well as private household workers. Data is for establishments with more than five workers and standardized work schedules are assumed.
• Wages by Area and Occupation: search BLS data by area or by occupation.

Salary.com 
Offers compensation information, salary surveys and reports, as well as SALARY WIZARD, which will compute salaries based on job title and geographic location.

California Employment Development Department 
This State agency provides wage data by occupation/industry and by county as well as California labor market information.

California State Salaries from the Sacramento Bee 
Search this database for California State employee salaries including civil service, CSU, legislative, and UC system workers. Search by name or agency.