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Here are just some of the valuable tools and information you'll find on this site:

Salary Center
Four indispensable tools to help you price jobs and manage your organization's compensation:

• Salary Finder - Use this feature to get current, reliable salary survey data for thousands of jobs. Save your searches, print data or download data to an Excel file.
• Rate Ranges - Select your organization's demographic criteria and get comprehensive rate ranges for all types of jobs. Print reports or download the data to an Excel file.
• Grade a Job - Use this tool to price any job by identifying its grade using a standard 9-factor analysis and applying that grade to current salary survey data. Save graded jobs in your library and print reports or download data to an Excel file.
• Merit Increases - Look up survey data on merit increases by job type for your location and industry.
• My Saved Jobs - Create and organize your personal library of saved jobs.

Benefits Center
Download current survey data on dozens of benefits topics for your industry and region.

Calculators
Use these handy Excel files to calculate important metrics, such as turnover rates and costs per hire.

Performance Appraisal Wizard
Use this step-by-step tool to create thorough performance appraisals for any job, complete with customizable job elements and weighted scores. Creates Word documents ready to save, customize and print.

Customizable and Downloadable Tools
Hundreds of prewritten job descriptions, forms and sample policies, ready to download and customize.

Legal Analysis
Plain-English summaries of the differences between federal and state laws and regulations for more than 65 compensation and benefits topics.

Best Practices
Hundreds of feature articles and white papers with practical guidance.

Daily News
Feature articles written by BLR's staff of HR and compensation professionals, updated daily.

Ask the Experts!
Subscribers' questions answered within one business day, and a Q & A's database of questions and answers, organized by topic.

Current, Reliable Data
BLR conducts annual surveys of employers to collect up-to-date and reliable data on pay budgets and employee benefits. This information is published in special reports and also made available on Compensation.BLR.com under the tabs titled Merit Increases and Benefits. In addition, in order to meet the demands of our subscribers for salary data on more jobs, for more industries, and for more local areas, BLR has adopted a new approach to gathering, analyzing, and reporting salary data. Using our newly developed, state-of-the-art database, we compiled employer-reported data from reliable surveys available commercially and in the public sector. Our compensation professionals analyze survey data for accuracy and market trends. They match our job descriptions to those used to collect data reported in the various salary surveys. As a result, BLR provides you with current, reliable information on thousands of job titles and hundreds of industries you can feel confident using to benchmark competitive salaries in your organization.