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2012 RESULTS NOW AVAILABLE!
All-time high participation!
  • 4.4% more organizations
  • 12.5% more incumbents

The Mercer Benchmark Database is the premier general industry database for evaluating and creating competitive compensation offerings.

The 2012 database contains data for over 1.8 million employees in 3,100 organizations and provides:

  • Base pay, incentive, and total direct compensation information for 1,170+ positions
  • Analyses by industry, assets, revenue/sales, operating expenses/budget, gross premiums, total employment, geographic region and metropolitan area
  • Year-over-year comparisons by position
  • Long-term incentive prevalence and valuation

Results are delivered in the next generation survey delivery platform - Mercer WIN® with single-point access to all your compensation data and enhanced analytics to accurately determine your competitive market position.

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MBD allows you to experience the flexibility of choice. Focus only on the functions you most need by purchasing individual modules, or experience the full depth of MBD as a subscriber to the entire database.

By combining these surveys into a single online tool release, clients have the ability to harness the power of the tool to:

  • Blend positions across 1,000 benchmarks
  • Create and/or run a single report template across positions
  • Compare their organization's data to market data across survey modules
  • Export results from a wide array of positions at one time

Overview

Purchase the Mercer Benchmark Database as a single cross-functional system or by these individual modules.

Survey

Number of Organizations

Number of Incumbents

E-commerce

827

6,859

Executive

2,543

52,096

Finance, Accounting, and Legal

2,371

129,661

Human Resources

2,213

73,902

Mercer/Gartner Information Technology Survey

2,133

302,025

Logistics and Supply Chain

1,732

167,828

Manufacturing

1,794

215,045

Sales, Marketing, and Communications

2,075

132,688

Metropolitan Benchmark

2,739

1,429,248


Career Streams Analyzed
  • Executive
  • Management
  • Para-Professional
  • Professional


  • Position Families Analyzed
  • Administration
  • Finance
  • Quality
  • Communications
  • Human Resources
  • Research and Development
  • Corporate Affairs
  • Information Technology
  • Sales
  • Customer Service/Call Center
  • Knowledge Management
  • Supply and Logistics
  • Engineering
  • Marketing
  • Top Management


  • Data Collected
  • Base Pay
  • Salary Range
  • Workforce Retention Metrics
  • FLSA Status
  • Short-term Incentive Eligibility and Amounts
  • Years in Organization
  • Long-term Incentive Eligibility and Grants
  • Workforce Composition Metrics
  • Years in Position
  • Organization Data


  • Data Analyzed
    Industry
  • Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
  • Hospitality/Entertainment/Media
  • Real Estate/Construction
  • Diversified
  • Insurance - Health and Medical
  • Retail/Wholesale
  • Education
  • Insurance - Non-Healthcare
  • Services
  • Energy/Mining
  • Mfg. - Durable, Misc.
  • Technical Services
  • Finance/Banking
  • Mfg. - High Tech
  • Telecommunications
  • Government
  • Mfg. - Nondurable Goods
  • Transportation and Warehousing
  • Healthcare - Non-Insurance
  • Professional Services
  • Utilities

  • Geographic Area
  • Metropolitan Area
  • National
  • Regional

  • Size
  • Assets
  • Net Revenue
  • Revenue/Sales
  • Gross Premiums
  • Operating Expenses/Budget
  • Total Employment



  • Survey Schedule
  • Questionnaire Distributed: Jan
  • Participation Deadline: Closed
  • Data Effective Date: Mar 1
  • Report Available: Aug


  • Pricing Options

    Participant

    Non-Participant

    Mercer Benchmark Database

    $7,100

    $21,300

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    Mercer Benchmark Database
    (including Manufacturing)

    $7,650

    $22,950

    Add to Cart

    Note:
    Purchase of the entire US Mercer Benchmark Database allows additional users to access Mercer Benchmark Database through Mercer's reporting tool at $1,000 per person.







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