Consider these questions:

• What are your competitors doing for 2011 salary reviews and incentive design?
  
  
• Do you have an easy-to-use source for comparing compensation and benefits across Europe, both internally and externally?
  
  
• Are you able to evaluate the competitive position of each element of your total direct remuneration on a pan-European basis?
  
  
• Would you like up-to-date information on global and European trends to support your executive remuneration strategy?
  
  
• Are you able to generate instant, automated and fully customised comparisons between your organisation and the market?

Obtain the right solutions with Mercer's Executive Remuneration Guide.

Key features & benefits

• Valuation of the total direct remuneration package, including base salary, bonuses and long-term incentives enabling comparisons to be made from the executive's perpective.
  
  
• Pre-survey 'job matching' meeting available on request for each participant, with survey roles underpinned by Mercer's International Position Evaluation® tool, ensuring that positions are accurately compared on a like-for-like basis.
  
  
• Targets Europe's largest financial services businesses ensuring the relevance of the comparator group to participating organisations.
  
  
• Raw data for each element of the reward package provided confidentially, allowing extensively refined comparisons and analyses to be made - e.g. how one specific aspect of a package compares with your own values.
  
  
• A detailed report with comprehensive valuation tables of total direct remuneration for each role, and an overview of benefits for various levels of executives across countries - with our online PayMonitor® tool enabling detailed customised reports against relevant peer groups.
  
  
• Analysis on trends and emerging practices, enabling participants to keep up to date on the latest executive pay practices.

Countries available

These databases can be customised to provide regional data by:

• Industry: consumer goods, durable, energy, finance/banking, hi-tech, insurance, non-durable, retail/wholesale, services or for all data excluding financial services.
  
  
• Size: assets, employee numbers, PC score, revenue.
  
  
• Scope of the role: geographic responsibility, level in organisation, executive board membership, PC score, remuneration.
  
  
• Specific peer groups of named companies from the database (minimum 10 companies).

More than 450 of Europe's largest companies participated in the MERG surveys in 2010. For a sample of the companies please contact your local Mercer consultant.

Position & functions

Mercer's survey includes approximately 40 executive benchmark positions at board level and the next two levels of management. The analysis includes comparisons between board and non-board positions at the same level for the following functions:

What do you receive?

• A hard copy of the complete results, showing lower quartile, median, upper quartile and average for each element of total direct remuneration for each executive role, and an overview of key benefits
  
  
• The report will include:
  • a full analysis of short and long-term incentive scheme design, including levels of award made in the previous year and identification of key changes in the last 12 months;
  • commentary on the differences across Europe on issues such as share ownership guidelines, and other corporate governance issues; and,
  • information on benefit schemes including pension, private medical insurance and company cars.

• A comprehensive executive summary of the market with commentary on current emerging practices and trends from Mercer's specialist Executive Remuneration consultants.
  
  
• Access to the Mercer Executive Remuneration database online through Mercer PayMonitor®, narrowing the scope to particular industry segments, peer group, geographic locations, or size of business relevant to your analysis. NB PayMonitor® access will not be available in Denmark).

Survey schedule & pricing options

* For Germany and Switzerland only Comp 1-4 are covered and there is no policy information available.

** For United Kingdom only Comp 1-4 are covered. 

There are various discounts available for multiple-year and multiple-survey purchase, please contact your local Mercer consultant for further details.

As a member of the MERG survey you may also purchase:

• Access to the various MERG regional databases online through Mercer PayMonitor® for a fee of EUR 4,000 in 2011 as an introductory offer (the standard fee for these product is listed above). This online tool enables you to compare your data to the Pan-European databases (over 450 companies), where you can narrow the scope to particular industries or size of business and level of role responsibility relevant to your analysis. You can also purchase specific company per cuts for an additional EUR 600 each. These survey databases are only available to MERG survey members.
  
  
• Where you provide information for a role based in another European country, you can purchase a total compensation (market pricing) report for a discounted fee of EUR 500.