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Avoid unnecessary processes and negotiations on salaries with Mercer’s salary benchmarking reports.
  • Total Remuneration Survey
    Study international data and ensure my organization’s salary and reward packages are competitive and cost-effective
  • Compensation reports
    Set competitive salaries, develop new pay structures and align productivity and performance
  • Employee Benefits Reports
    Be up to date with latest trends in benefits package designs and help me retain and engage top talent in my organization

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For custom analysis or help comparing your compensation policy against the market, our additional consulting and custom analysis tools can help you:

  • Investigate budget modelling, cost optimisation and compensation
  • Understand market employment pricing and practices during COVID-19
  • Compare and contrast scenarios with remuneration deviation reports
  • Impartially review executive remuneration and sales incentives
  • Find creative and employee-centric ways to reward and engage staff during challenging times.

Whether you are managing the current situation, looking for new ways to lead through this time of uncertainty, or creating a new future in order to emerge stronger, now is the time to talk to us.

Compensation Reports

How do you balance budgets and offer appropriate compensation packages to keep employees motivated, especially in challenging times? Use these publications to plan or compare local, regional and global compensation. From experienced employee remuneration to new graduate starting salaries, we have the insights you need.

Global Compensation Planning Report

Talent scarcity and the ease of mobility are making it increasingly critical that HR retain top performers while also attracting outside talent. Gain insight into salary increase budgets and economic data to help set and manage your salary increase budgets.

  • Published: Online: October 2022
  • Next release: January 2023
  • File format(s): Online, Excel
  • Report type: Global online, Global online industry, Region Excel
For more detail or more purchase options for Global Online, please visit Global Compensation Planning Report page.

Global Pay Summary

Employee pay often represents the largest expense for most companies, which means well-informed salary decisions are critical. Quickly review and evaluate base salary and total cash compensation around the world for a core set of benchmark jobs.

  • Published: January 2023
  • Next release: January 2024
  • File format(s): Online, Excel
  • Report type: Global online, Region Excel
For more detail, please visit Global Pay Summary Report page.

Incentives Around the World

Motivating your employees to ensure your company achieves its broader goals is a challenge that many organizations face. Gain insight into the types of incentives offered around the world and quickly evaluate how these incentives vary by job family and industry.

An online subscription includes 12 months’ access for up to 5 users; includes access to all updates during that period. Additional users may be added for a fee. Includes Excel download files; does not include PDF.

  • Published:  March 2021
  • Next release: February 2022
  • File format(s): Online, Excel
  • Report type: Global online, Region Excel

Policies & Practices Report

Time to review your employment policies or practices? Get in-depth insights on salary increase forecasts, attrition rates, hot jobs, graduates’ starting salaries, medical coverage, insurance policies, short and long-term incentive practices and more.
Product Price
Policies & Practices Report SGD 2,000

Market Regression Report

Compare salaries, job families and sectors with our Market Regression Report which covers annual base salary, annual guaranteed cash, annual total cash, and annual total remuneration. This robust research analysis with market trend lines is particularly helpful to consult when designing salary ranges.
Product Price
Market Regression Report SGD 2,700

Benefits Reports

How do you balance budgets and offer appropriate compensation packages to keep employees motivated, especially in challenging times? Use these publications to plan or compare local, regional and global compensation. From experienced employee remuneration to new graduate starting salaries, we have the insights you need.

Benefits Prevalence Report & Benefits Practice Report Summary

With data from Mercer’s APAC Benefits Survey, which is conducted with more than 5000 companies, the Benefits Prevalence Report and Benefits Practice Report Summary will provide you a quick overview of your benefits policies to ensure that your benefits strategy remains competitive.

Transportation Policies & Costs

Discover which types of transportation benefits companies typically offer and understand their associated costs.

Severance Pay Policies

No one likes to dwell on lay-offs and terminations, but severance policies are a major component of every HR department’s portfolio. Learn how businesses construct and distribute severance pay to their outgoing employees.

  • Published: August 2020
  • File format: PDF
  • Report type: Single Market PDF (Singapore, Brazil, Canada, United States)

Leave Program

Review market practice and statutory requirements of paid and unpaid time off for a selection of core leave programs.

  • Published: September 2022
  • Next release: September 2023
  • File format: Online, Excel, PDF

Worldwide Benefit & Employment Guidelines

Benefit provisions are often driven by the statutory requirements imposed by government entities. Understand both the context of mandated benefits and the supplemental pieces that companies typically offer, along with legislative updates and trends insight for each benefit.

  • Published: Online April 2022
  • Next Release: Updated throughout the year
  • File format: Online
For more detail, please visit Worldwide Benefit & Employment Guideline page.

Benefits Spotlight Report

Keep up to date with the latest trends in benefits package design. This essential report includes key benefits and statutory information such as annual leave, work life balance, medical, insurance, vehicle policies, flexible benefit plans and more. Use it to help determine a competitive remuneration and benefits strategy that is fit-for-purpose, flexible and adequate.
Product Price
Benefits Spotlight Report SGD 1,100
Purchase the report @ SGD 1,100
Please consider Asia Pacific Monitor Platinum/Diamond membership which includes this report and more.

Mercer BenefitsMonitor™

Recognising that keeping track of market response to market and legislative changes can be demanding, Mercer offers you Mercer BenefitsMonitor™ (MBM) to help you keep abreast with market intentions, trends and how organizations are dealing or will deal with market changes and statutory amendments. MBM is your one-stop source to get market prevalence, legislative updates and key findings of adhoc snapshot surveys.

MBM is an interactive and user-centered online tool that offers a wide range of flexible and intuitive features for benefits reporting and analysis.

  • File format: Online
  • Report type: Standard, Standard Plus, Premium, Single Section (about the report types)
  • Available countries
For more detail or more purchase options, please visit Mercer BenefitsMonitor page.

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