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The Mercer Life Sciences Compensation Surveys (MLS) provide you with comprehensive and reliable insight on trends in compensation and benefits practices within the Life Sciences sector, using a globally harmonized survey methodology and comprehensive job catalog, to facilitate your rewards planning.
This easy-to-use source for comparing compensation and benefits data consistently across geographies provides accurate, high-quality data covering the full rewards package. This gives you a complete picture – from base pay to total remuneration and benefits – at your fingertips.
Submit your data faster with seamless import, online job matching, and real-time tracking with Mercer Data Connector. This award-winning application saves time and effort with the entire survey participation online. Learn more.
Mercer Life Sciences Compensation Survey (MLS) is made up of five components providing a complete picture of total remuneration data.
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Base salary Monthly base salary times the number of months guaranteed
Total guaranteed cash compensation Base salary plus the annualized value of guaranteed allowances
Total cash compensation Total guaranteed cash compensation plus the annualized value of short-term incentive, sales incentive, profit sharing or other incentive awards
Total direct compensation Total cash compensation plus the annualized value of any long-term incentive awards, valued using Black-Scholes methodology for appreciation-based awards
Total remuneration Total direct compensation plus the annualized value of benefits
Data for a full range of general infrastructure/ support functions are collected and published alongside that of the industry-specific functions.
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 Life Sciences Compensation Survey provides 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 MLS, you will benefit from:
Online access
The survey results are delivered through Mercer WIN® which allows you to create custom views, analyze 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 specialized industry roles to combinations of related jobs within the broader talent pool, analyze 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 labor trends in the country.
Benefits & prevalence summary
A summary of organizations’ 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®.
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Mercer is proud to partner with Medtech Canada, the national association created by and for the Canadian medical technology industry, to bring clients high quality, industry-specific data.
Why participate in the Canada Mercer Life Sciences Survey?
If you have questions regarding the survey or the participation materials, please call a Mercer Representative at: 800 333 3070 or email us at surveys@mercer.com.
Pricing varies by country and by an organization’s participation status (did or did not submit data for the survey). View available countries and pricing.
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Mercer’s Life Sciences Consulting offering in Asia Pacific takes a unique and holistic approach to providing your industry specific needs. Since 2005, Mercer is proud to be the selected vendor of the Pharmaceutical Human Resources Association (PHRA).
At the heart of Mercer’s Life Sciences Consulting offering stands the PURPOSE Survey (legacy APHSS). With the aim of connecting Rewards Leaders across the region, PURPOSE holds two signature Life Sciences Forum meetings annually. Over the years, the forums have continued to evolve to include leading Medical Device companies. These forums provide a comprehensive overview of the Pharma, Biotech, and Medical Devices industries, identifying common trends across the industries, while also deep diving into talent trends specific to Asia Pacific. This year’s Forums in particular focus trends in Therapeutic Areas such as Oncology, Rare Diseases or In-vivo versus in-vitro diagnostics on the devices side.
What does PURPOSE entitle you to?
Join the Mercer Life Sciences Industry – Asia group - an online Community exclusively for our clients
Medical Technology Brochure
Pharmaceutical Brochure
Local Country Forums
Life Sciences Industry Supplements provide quantitative information on positions specific for the Life Sciences industry. As opposed to standard Total Remuneration Survey (TRS) suites which aggregate data for general jobs that can be found across multiple markets, Life Sciences Supplements present additional information with a special focus on roles that can be identified only in the industry. Common roles such as Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis or General Human Resources are available in a standard cross-industry TRS. Industry Supplements do not cover policy information. Compensation data is published in MercerWIN®; with full system functionality.
Life Sciences Industry Supplements are available in 30 countries across Europe, Middle East & Africa and Asia to supplement markets where Mercer Life Sciences Compensation Surveys (MLS) are currently not available. The schedule (data submission, effective dates and delivery of results) for the Supplements is the same as for TRS, so there is no need for additional steps! Find out more here.
We encourage you to contact your Mercer representative to discuss your needs.
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.
Resources for existing Mercer clients
At Mercer we are dedicated to make your experience working with us and using our services, easier than ever before. As a Mercer client you will have free access to Mercer Resources Center site The one-stop-shop providing existing Mercer clients with a complete library of training and information resources. All in one place! Resources, help materials, and all other information available on the site are everything you need to know about MLS and other Mercer products.
Whatever your goal is – be it to understand how to create a report in Mercer WIN®, how to upload a file in Mercer Data Connector or learn why survey participation matters – Mercer Resources Center is tailored to provide the knowledge you can rely on.
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