• Mercer Executive Remuneration Guides provide the market data and analytical tools to support executive remuneration programmes for leading organisations in Europe.
• Mercer Executive Remuneration Guides cover all aspects of total remuneration for 40 benchmark top executive positions at the executive board and the next two reporting levels.
• The guides provide consistent and accurate market data, covering the full reward package, including all forms of cash remuneration, long-term incentives and benefits. The surveys are available in nearly 15 markets across Europe, including Denmark, Finland, France ,Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

• Valuation of the total remuneration 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 remuneration 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

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:

• 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 benefit schemes including pension, private medical insurance and company cars

• Western European Mercer Executive Remuneration Guide

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

• Pan-European Financial Services (PEFS)