The bulk of data collection (through Excel questionnaires and Mercer Data Connector) as well as survey results published in Mercer WIN are based on Mercer Job Library.

Almost all Mercer’s compensation and benefits surveys use Mercer Job Library.

Mercer Job Library is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese.

Mercer Job Library identifies relationships between Jobs and sets up two additional types of compensation reporting units – Core Jobs and Mercer Combined Jobs. These are additional data sets reported in our surveys based on the combination of related sets of underlying Jobs. These features are useful in the following situations:

• job responsibilities are changing in your organization, requiring analysis of a broader comparator market,
• you are experiencing recruiting difficulties for a specific skill set in a specific market, and therefore need to look at a broader or related set of jobs,
• insufficient data in the survey for the specific job and refinement combination you are seeking.

Mercer’s compensation database comprises thousands of jobs across hundreds of markets and dozens of industries. We study our existing database of jobs, research current trends in job families and industry labor markets, and partner with our consulting colleagues to determine the appropriate relationships between jobs.

Yes. Mercer Job Library is a single, integrated catalog to allow easier analysis across products and at the same time it is flexible enough to feature industry specific jobs. They have simply been arranged to align with related jobs found in other industries, allowing those data points to be included – where relevant – in our Core Jobs and Mercer Combined Jobs.

Mercer Job Library is aligned with IPE. Each job in our library has a corresponding Mercer IPE evaluation and resulting position class. The global job catalog enables the connection of IPE to even more Mercer surveys.

A tab specifically for the Mercer Job Library houses all data from Mercer Job Library surveys.

Apart from published reports comprising Mercer Job Library’s Jobs, Mercer Combined Jobs, and Core Jobs, you can flexibly tailor data to your business needs. Specifically, Mercer WIN allows to combine any jobs, refine the data cut further to selected Industry(ies), Geographic Scope, Job’s Specialty Flags, and create a Peer Group of organizations.

Clients are highlighting the following advantages of the Mercer Job Library:

• detailed job descriptions
• job structure based on the nature-of-work
• increased number of jobs
• consistent use of language across career levels