Global Publications

Attract, preserve, and inspire your workforce around the world using the latest global research, insights, and tools.

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The global employment landscape is rapidly changing, creating the need to continuously evaluate and evolve your employee remuneration strategies across locations and markets. Mercer understands your need for quick access to data, trends, and tools that will help you align your global strategies and create the right pay, benefits, and policies to succeed today and in the future.

Mercer’s extensive global presence allows us to collect the right data from the right organizations and consultants, data which can be used by you and other HR professionals to address your areas of need. Ready to take the actions necessary to propel your organization forward, attract and retain key talent, and support your human capital mission? Browse our collection of comprehensive global solutions.

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Workforce & careers

Global Compensation Drivers

Turn your compensation, talent acquisition, and mobility teams into experts on which key factors truly drive compensation. Understand local and demographic variables that stand apart and influence pay and what should be considered when creating a pay structure.

Global Compensation Planning

The Global Compensation Planning report provides information on salary increase trends across career levels while also presenting data on GDP growth, inflation, and unemployment rates. Optimize your global compensation strategy with the leading source of information on economic and salary trends.

Global Pay Summary (GPS)

Access concise pay data on global salary trends with the Global Pay Summary report. Benchmark across 10 job families and 50 positions with data insights into annual base salary and annual total cash information.

Incentives around the World

Gain insight into the types of incentives offered around the world, and quickly evaluate how these incentives vary by job family or industry with two global report options. Get individual market data by career level for short-term, sales, and long-term incentives.

Workforce Metrics Around the World

Use metric data to help to quantify costs and understand the impact of the policies, processes and structure your organization has implemented.

Worldwide Survey of International Assignment Policies and Practices

With the largest participant base in the market, this comprehensive report addresses the most critical policy and practice elements of international assignments. The report also answers prevalent questions related to changing mobile workforces, policy segmentation, the importance of mobility premiums in today’s economy, and much more.

Workforce Turnover Around the World

Quickly and easily identify markets with the highest turnover rates and take proactive steps to retain your top talent. This publication includes 100 markets with details on economic and labour market trends, voluntary and involuntary turnover, and workforce change by region, country, and industry.

Health & benefits

Car Benefit Policies & Alternate Transportation

Company car benefits are very often a key part of the compensation package offered when recruiting and retaining talent. This global report reviews car policy by market, highlights differences in policy practices, and helps identify cost-saving measures.

Car Cost Reports

This report provides information on vehicle purchase prices, lease costs, and car rental estimates for more than 70 markets.

Inclusive Benefits

As workplaces diversify, ensuring inclusive benefits are firmly rooted in your D&I strategy is more important than ever. Gain insights into market practice for over 50 markets to provide equal access for every employee.

LGBT Benefits Around the World

Make sure you have diverse, inclusive, and accepting benefits programs in place. Use the data in this report to enhance the design of your benefits programs with LGBT talent market trends data across 50 countries and available at the global, regional, and country level.

Severance Pay Policies Around the World

Severance programs offer structure and guidance for employees that are leaving an organization. Simultaneously, these programs ensures that they are treated fairly while preparing them to re-enter the job market. This global survey collects information for more than 30 countries and studies how organizations around the world navigate the tricky waters of severance pay.

Vacation and Other Leave Policies Around the World

This survey provides reliable and up-to-date market data on policies and amount of annual leave offered by companies in more than 50 countries. Using the data on vacation days, sick leave, paid time off pools, sabbaticals, and more, craft or enhance your policy.

Worldwide Benefit & Employment Guidelines

Get up–to–date facts on global benefits, practices, and statutory regulations with the Worldwide Benefit & Employment Guidelines, an authoritative, cost-effective, quick-reference guide on global employee benefits in 77 countries.

Portal, Package and Handbook Publications

Talent All Access® Portal

To make the best decisions for your organisation, you need accurate, up-to-the-minute information on everything from local statutory benefits to salary trends to current economic developments. Get all of this and more in the Talent All Access online portal, which provides anytime access to 20+ publications, online tools, and research.

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Benefits around the globe

Get up–to–date facts on global benefits, practices, and statutory regulations for your locations in this authoritative, cost-effective guide covering 77 markets.

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Comp. planning for 147 markets

Attract and keep top talent with data on GDP growth, salary increase forecasts, and more for 147 markets using the Global Compensation Planning report.

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