Salaries

Benchmarking Compensation Data

Self Reported Data

Company & Industry Collected Data

Salary Data from the top 25 MBA programs

US News and World Report's Best Business Schools (2019 rankings) report salary data through their career centers - the links below take you to the most recent reports.  The most recent Goizueta salary reports are available here.

1 Pennsylvania - Wharton
2 Stanford
3 Harvard
3 MIT - Sloan
3 Chicago - Booth
6 Columbia
6 Northwestern - Kellogg
6 UC Berkeley - Haas
9 Yale
10 Duke - Fuqua
10 Michigan - Ross
12 Dartmouth - Tuck
12 NYU - Stern
12 Virginia – Darden
15 Cornell - Johnson
16 UCLA - Anderson
17 Carnegie Mellon -  Tepper
17 Southern California - Marshall
19 UNC Chapel-Hill - Kenan-Flagler
19 Texas-Austin -  McCombs
21 Emory University - Goizueta
21 Indiana University - Kelley
21 University of Washington - Foster
24 Georgetown -  McDonough
25 University of Florida - Warrington

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Data

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) salary data includes:  

A salary calculator using BLs data is available via GoodCalculators: Salary Calculator by State. 

For more detail, review the BLS Occupational Employment Statistics.  This survey data for state and metro areas covers 800 occupations. 

  • Quick browse: O*Net.  Search your profession of interest, and then click on the salaries tab in the result.
  • Detailed search: salary survey form:
1. select an area
2. select a category (for example: Executive, administrators and managers)
3. chose a level (the "get help" is great for this)
4. add the choices to your selection and then click "get data."  The data opens in a pop up window, so make sure your pop up blocker is turned off!

H1B Visas & Prevailing Wage Data

The US Department of Labor's Foreign Labor Certification (FLC) Data Center 's Case Disclosure Files provide a list of firms who have applied to sponsor H1B visas in the past.   The compensation data included in this file is based on prevailing wage data.  

You may download the raw data in Excel (59.8 MB) to sort and filter as you wish via the file structure.

To simplify your browsing, you may also download the above data pre-filtered by several popular data sorts, including salary and with some professional classifications not typically pursued by graduating business school students removed (pilots, physicians, professors, etc).  

  1. H1Bs in the common BBA salary range
  2. H1Bs in the common MBA salary range
  3. H1Bs in the common MSBA salary range
  4. H1Bs in the greater Atlanta metro area  - all salaries, all professions

 For all files, use your Emory log in.   

Relocating? Cost of living data

Remember to take cost of living into account when considering a salary!  Large city vs suburb, Northeast vs Southwest....

Looking internationally?

Recommended Books and Journals

How to Be an Ace Salary Negotiator (Even if You Hate Conflict) from the New York Times

Negotiation Tips: Career Journal from the Wall Street Journal

How to Negotiate Salary: Wall Street Journal 

Asher Associates:  The Ins and Outs of Negotiations: A Q&A with Donald Asher