Patent ID: 7376569

Claim:
A method of providing compensation information over a communication network, the method comprising: prompting, over the communication network, a user to select an indication of a job from a plurality of job categories; receiving, over the communication network, a selection by the user of a job category; retrieving, from a database containing compensation information associated with jobs, desired compensation information corresponding to the selection by the user of the job category; transmitting the desired compensation information to the user over the communication network; prompting the user to select job comparison information to compare the desired compensation information associated with the selected job class and selected job titles with at least one of a national average compensation associated with the selected job class and job title, compensation for the selected job class and job title associated with a different geographic region than the selected geographic region, and compensation for the selected job class and the selected geographic region with a different job title associated with the selected job class; receiving, over the communication network, a selection by the user of comparison information; retrieving, from the database containing compensation information associated with jobs, desired comparison compensation information corresponding to the selection by the user of the comparison information; transmitting the desired comparison compensation information to the user over the communication network in addition to the desired compensation information in a format for comparing the desired compensation information and the desired comparison compensation information; and transmitting, over the communication network to the user, indicia of links to job opportunities, the links being selectable by the user to be connected via the communication network to information relating to at least one opportunity for a job corresponding to the selected job category.