US Mercer SIRS® Benchmark Survey

Survey Stats Data Collected Data Analyzed Survey Schedule Participant List

Data Exchange Agreement The SIRS Benchmark Survey provides competitive compensation data for US jobs across four major industries; Airlines and Transportation, Consumer Products, High Technology, and Life Sciences. Select an industry above for a brief description and the 2011 participant list by industry and sub industry. The survey is built upon a time-tested, logical benchmark and level system that helps clients make more meaningful compensation comparisons regardless of organizational structure. The SIRS system assesses organizational structure against industry norms, evaluating for external competitiveness while highlighting issues of internal equity. Read more on the Mercer SIRS Benchmark Methodology and view additional surveys available in the SIRS Survey Suite. Registration is now open for the Mercer SIRS Annual Life Sciences Industry Meeting on September 11-13, 2012 in Chicago, IL at the Westin Michigan Avenue. Register for this meeting by June 15 and pay only $995 - a $205 discount on the attendee cost of $1200. Receive a 10% discount for each additional registrant from same company. Advisory only meeting cost is $600.   Purchase Options Benchmark Families Analyzed

Survey Stats

# Positions: 1,035	# Organizations: 501	# Observations: 1.5 million+
Based on data from the last completed survey

Benchmark Families Analyzed

Cross Industry Job Families

Industry Specific Job Families

Data Collected

Base Pay	Long-term Incentive Eligibility and Grants	Short-term Incentive Eligibility and Amounts
FLSA Status	Organization Data	Total Cash Compensation
Job Titles	Salary Range and Grade

Data Analyzed

Categories

Administrative

Management

Technical

Geographic Area

Metropolitan Area

National

Regional

• Airlines & Transportation
• Consumer Products
• High Technology
• Aerospace & Defense
• Electronics
• Energy
• Manufacturing
• Research and Development
• Systems
• Technical Services
• Life Sciences
• Agricultural
• Animal Health
• Biotechnology
• Contract Healthcare Services
• Medical Devices
• Pharmaceutical

Survey Schedule

Questionnaire Distributed: Early March	Participation Deadline: April 16	Data Effective Date: April 1
Report Available: July/August

Pricing Options
The standard option:

• One industry cut of your choice
• A custom peer group of your choice
• Select geographic cuts including key cities, regions and states
• Levels analysis based on the categories identified above
• PayMonitor access to easily select and review the benchmarks of your choice via the web
• Compare my data

The premium option:

Everything you get in the standard option PLUS full access to PayMonitor to access unlimited peer groups, as well as to create your own analyses using any of the following criteria:

• Industry
• Company size (revenue/# of employees)
• Employee category
• Geography

	Participant	Add a Custom report
US Mercer SIRS Benchmark Survey - Standard	$5,500	$1,000
US Mercer SIRS Benchmark Survey - Premium	$9,500	$1,000

This survey is only available to survey participants. Pricing varies for multi entity organizations. To order, call 800 333 3070.