Patent ID: 7647322

Claim:
A method in a computer system to display economic data, comprising: by a processor of the computer system, receiving a request for statistical compensation data from a user of a client computer; requesting personal economic data from the user, including specifying that the personal economic data is being requested in exchange for the requested statistical compensation data; receiving the requested personal economic data; retrieving the requested statistical compensation data from at least one pool of compensation data; providing a display description for view by the user, the display description including instructions for a graphical display of multiple discrete economic data items including the statistical compensation data requested by the user; receiving a selection of one of the discrete economic data items from the user; retrieving additional data corresponding to the selected discrete economic data item wherein retrieving additional data includes retrieving first additional data when the user aligns the cursor with the selected discrete economic data item; and providing instructions to display the additional data to the user.