• Valuation of the total compensation package, including base salary, bonuses, long-term incentives and non-cash benefits, enabling comparisons to be made of the value/replacement cost from the executive’s perspective
• Pre-survey “job matching” 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
• Information from Europe’s largest 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 – for example, how one specific aspect of a package compares with your own values
• A detailed report with comprehensive valuation tables of total compensation for each role, and an overview of benefits for various levels of executives – 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

Positions and functions surveyed

Mercer’s survey includes approximately 50 executive benchmark positions at board level and the next three 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 compensation for each executive role

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 share ownership guidelines and other corporate governance issues; and
• information on other benefit schemes including pension, private medical insurance and company cars

Available countries and contact information

Mercer is conducting MECGs in the following countries in 2007. If you require more information about the survey or wish to participate, please contact the local Mercer consultant.

This survey is only available to participants

*This is the approximate euro equivalent, please confirm price in local currency with the Mercer consultant.

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

• access to the Pan-European Mercer Executive Compensation database online through Mercer PayMonitorSM for a fee of €2,500. This online tool enables you to compare your data to the Pan-European database, 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 peer cuts for an additional €600. This survey database is only available to MECG 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 €500.

There are discounts available for multiple survey purchases. Please contact your local Mercer consultant for details.