Data from the 2012 ERC Pay Adjustment & Incentive Practices Survey indicates that the increases being projected by Northeast Ohio employers are representative of a larger national trend of compensation practices. Of the 114 participating organizations, 89% are projecting salary and wage increases for 2012, a record high level since 2009 when only 45% of survey participants projected increases. This improvement falls just short of improvements found in national data reported by SHRM in an article from 2011.