Economic Research Institute, or ERI, was founded in 1987 to provide compensation, benefits, and Human Resource research for private and public organizations in the form of published reports and software database products. Revenues for ERI are earned solely from these software and publication sales. ERI does not provide fee-for-service consulting.

ERI's research database software subscriptions are available to management, analysts and consultants and are now widely used by client organizations (over 7,000 corporate and consulting subscribers, affecting over 100,000 organizations' pay practices). Subscribers include corporate compensation, relocation, human resources, and other professionals as well as independent consultants and counselors, and U.S. and Canadian public sector administrators (including military, law enforcement, city/county, state/provincial, and federal government pay administrators). To access ERI's enhanced Dictionary of Occupational Titles (eDOT)™, vocational rehabilitation counselors, forensic economists, immigration attorneys and a host of other niche professionals are now joining as subscribers. ERI analyses are not available to the general public.

ERI's online survey website, SalariesReview.com, provides patented (March 2005) online interactive salary surveys for positions and locations not covered by traditional survey vendors. (Patent Number US 6,862,596. Other Patents Pending.) ERI utilizes SalariesReview user-inputted survey data to increase the robustness of our Assessor Series salary and cost-of-living datasets. In addition, the new SalariesReview Job Board collects information on job availability for eDOT transferable skills analyses.