Mercer's Information Product Solutions business publishes a range of survey information covering economic trend analysis, statutory benefit practices, and pay differentials across the globe. Mercer also offers a suite of online tools delivering full design, analytical and reporting capabilities to support and enhance your programs.

Latest global mobility surveys

Survey of Expatriate Housing Costs and Practices in Major Cities Worldwide

Learn more about the 2008/09 Survey of Expatriate Housing Costs and Practices in Major Cities Worldwide

Benefits Survey for Expatriates and Globally Mobile Employees

Benefit programmes for globally mobile employees often cause major difficulties for multinational companies, mainly due to the complexities of providing equitable packages across borders. The biggest challenge is arriving at a globally consistent approach for such a disparate group of employees.

This report identifies multinational company policies and trends for providing employee benefit programmes for these globally mobile employees.

Our 2008 survey report can help you structure and offer competitive, equitable benefit programmes for your international assignees. It includes information on:

• Retirement benefits

• Medical benefits

• Risk benefits

• Localisation

• General policies and trends

 Learn more about the 2008 Benefits Survey for Expatriates and Globally Mobile Employees

International Assignments Survey

Transferring employees abroad for short-term, long-term or permanent assignments is more challenging than ever before. Aligning your company's expatriation practices with the best practices in the marketplace is critical to your program's success.

Mercer's International Assignments Survey is a well-established source of information on expatriate management and addresses the key issues that affect international assignments. Based on data from major multinational firms, this report presents the latest international assignment practices and policy developments.

 Learn more about the International Assignments Survey

Worldwide Benefit & Employment Guidelines

With its extensive analyses and narrative reports, this is the definitive reference work on mandatory and private benefit practices, as well as statutory regulations, around the world.

Offering unparalleled quality and depth of data and analysis, and covering more than 60 countries, the 2007/2008 edition of WBEG is available in five regional volumes providing concise, reliable and easy-to-use information for the major economic regions of the world – Americas, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Middle East & Africa. Buyers also receive access to WBEG online and its comparators.

 Learn more about the Worldwide Benefit & Employment Guidelines

Guide to Expatriate Housing Costs and Practices

Housing remains one of the most sensitive issues in the expatriate package negotiation process, primarily because of its cost but also because of its significant impact on the assignee and family.

Mercer's new report, Guide to Expatriate Housing Costs and Practices, presents housing policies and practices as well as complete, current housing-related cost survey data to help you apply them.

 Learn more about Expatriate Housing Costs and Practices

2008 pan-European employer health and benefits survey

Now in its second year, the survey report will enable your organisation to better understand what healthcare strategies are working effectively in your country and elsewhere. It includes:

• Employer objectives for providing health benefits and services
• Impact of social welfare reforms on demand for private health benefits
• Cost of health-related benefits
• Types of health benefits provided
• Coordinating health benefits activities throughout Europe
• Absence levels
• Causes of absence
• Absence management programmes and policies  

 Learn more about the 2008 pan-European employer health and benefits survey

Mercer's 2009 Quality of Living survey highlights

To encourage employment mobility and keep abreast of the competition, you need reliable information to help you calculate fair, consistent expatriate allowances. Based on 39 factors within ten categories, Mercer’s Quality of Living Reports contain all the key elements you need to calculate hardship allowances for transfers to over 420 cities worldwide.

Our reports are based on annual responses to a questionnaire developed by international Mercer professionals, working closely with major multinational companies and other experts in the field.

 Learn more about the Quality of Living survey

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Global mobility online tools

Our human capital software tools are designed by human capital experts and our capabilities range from data delivery to data manipulation. If you need to market price jobs, plan and analyze salaries, design pay structures, or evaluate jobs, we have a software solution for you.

Global HRMonitor®

This single information source supports you in all aspects of managing your expatriate employees on a worldwide and/or regional basis.

The reports and built-in calculators allow you to customise the data to your own specific needs and to obtain the best return on investment from your international assignments.

 Learn more about Global HRMonitor

ExpatMonitor^TM

An integrated expatriate compensation management tool designed to facilitate the management and the administration of international assignment compensation policies, trends and costs.

ExpatMonitor^TM  is a web-based tool capable of recording and managing expatriate related compensation information.

 Learn more about ExpatMonitor

MercerPassport®

A valuable source of reference information that will help expatriates learn what it’s really like to live in another country.

MercerPassport® provides the whole family with a clear understanding of how to appreciate and adapt to life in a new location, as well as essential practical guidance about moving abroad. 

 Learn more about MercerPassport

 View the full range of tools via our sister site - imercer.com