Mercer's Total Remuneration Survey (TRS) is the key to designing competitive pay packages worldwide.
The most comprehensive guide to compensation and benefits practices in the market features:
140+
countries participating both locally and globally
39,000+
organisations participating worldwide
300,000
jobs surveyed globally
15 Million
incumbents around the world
Salaries are a little like the housing market. Understanding that there are markets within markets is essential to accurately forecast remuneration within your industry, profession, and organisation.
Mercer's annual Total Remuneration Survey (TRS) is available to purchase! Reporting on over 20,000 incumbents from 284 New Zealand organisations from a broad spectrum of industries. Access market data for cross-industry jobs and up-to-date information on market pay rates across a broad range of professions. Remember, if you want the participant rate, you can purchase now and participate later in the year.
Use your organisations remuneration data to stay ahead of new trends:
In today’s talent-demand economy, ensuring your compensation plans are aligned to the market – locally, regionally, and globally – is critical to securing the talent you need to be successful. Mercer provides the most comprehensive compensation and benefits databases in the world to assist you with compensation planning and policy development.
Learn more about Mercer's Total Remuneration Survey (TRS) and how you can participate with Mercer's salary benchmarking surveys.
Mercer's Total Remuneration Survey is made up of multiple components providing a complete picture of total remuneration data.
Base salary
Monthly base salary times the number of months guaranteed.
Total guaranteed cash compensation
Base salary plus the annualised value of guaranteed allowances.
Total cash compensation
Total guaranteed cash compensation plus the annualised value of short-term incentive, sales incentive, profit sharing or other incentive awards.
Total direct compensation
Total cash compensation plus the annualised value of any long-term incentive awards, valued using Black-Scholes methodology for appreciation-based awards.
Total remuneration
Total direct compensation plus the annualised value of benefits.
Total employment cost
Total guaranteed cash compensation plus the annualised value of benefits.
Mercer TRS covers over 140 countries around the world!
Using Mercer TRS, get accurate, high-quality data covering the full rewards package — everything from base salary, total cash, and total remuneration — for a complete picture … at your fingertips.
In today’s talent-demand economy, ensuring your compensation plans are aligned to the market – locally, regionally, and globally – is critical to securing the talent you need to be successful. Mercer provides most comprehensive compensation and benefits databases in the world to assist you with compensation planning and policies development.
The Mercer Total Remuneration Surveys (TRS) provide comprehensive market data on compensation and benefits around the globe. Results are easily accessible through our online platform, Mercer WIN®, to help you optimize your compensation plans. With Mercer TRS, you will benefit from:
Mercer's Total Remuneration Survey includes a vast range of features:
Online access
The survey results are delivered through Mercer WIN® which allows you to create custom views, analyse data across markets simultaneously, create unlimited peer groups, refine the market, compare your data vs. the market*, combine jobs, export to Excel, and much more!
More relevant data
With new aggregated roll-ups, relationships between jobs becomes clearer – with data that best reflects your jobs and labour markets. From deeply specialised industry roles to combinations of related jobs within the broader talent pool, analyse competitive compensation industry levels, across related industries, or across an entire labour market.
Survey overview
An overview of the market pay trends relative to the prior year as well as a summary of the economic, political and labour trends in the country.
Benefits & prevalence summary
A summary of organisations’ remuneration policies, which includes salary budget forecasts, compensation mix by employee groups, short-term and long-term incentive practices, as well as benefits.
Actual market data
Market analysis by job including all remuneration values, helping you determine which jobs are more competitive within the market.
Market regression
Market analysis by Position Class (Mercer’s International Position Evaluation (IPE) methodology for job evaluation) for each of the major components of total remuneration.
Custom analysis
Custom statistics tailored to your needs, based on peer groups, industry, revenue size, total employees, and more, using Mercer WIN®.
* Only available for participants
Download a sample of Mercer's Total Remuneration Survey (TRS):
In today’s talent-demand economy, ensuring your compensation plans are aligned to the market – locally, regionally, and globally – is critical to securing the talent you need to be successful. Mercer provides most comprehensive compensation and benefits databases in the world to assist you with compensation planning and policies development.
Complimentary copy of the report upon participation
Pay is extremely important to employees and retaining critical talent is often a top priority. The Salary Movement Snapshot survey (SMS) is conducted four times per year and provides relevant, consistent, and up-to date salary increase data for 90+ markets. With SMS you will also know which markets are expecting high attrition this year, as well as how salary increases vary by performance level, and finally what percentage of employees are expected to receive a promotion.
Don't miss out on your regular Salary Movement Snapshot (SMS) of up-to-date salary increase data and participate now. As a SMS participant you receive a complimentary report for each market for which you provide data.
If you have questions or require assistance, please contact your Mercer representative.
Mercer TRS pricing varies by country and by an organisation’s participation status (did or did not submit data for the survey). If you would like to purchase TRS, please contact your Mercer representative. For country coverage and pricing click here.
Need data for more than one location? Choose to get access to the entire global database or a flexible package based on the countries you select. Learn more about the advantages of a Mercer TRS Membership which include:
Twice a year, Mercer holds survey meetings in each country. The kick off meetings at the beginning of the survey data collection process and the post survey meetings once the survey results are published. Click here for the complete list of events.
By purchasing Mercer's Total Remuneration Survey (TRS) and opting to become a participant you not only become a part of this local and global research community you can also reduce your cost in accessing the survey.
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Please note: Pricing quoted will be converted to AUD on invoice and applicable tax added.
* By subscribing to this survey, you will be required to participate and contribute data to this survey on an annual basis.
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