US Incentive Plan Design

Evaluate your incentive plan to enhance organizational strength

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Successful short-term and sales incentive plans must align with your business strategy in order to reward individual performance, retain top performing employees, and attract potential candidates. However designing the right plan tailored towards your company's specific needs can be difficult and time consuming.

Make your job easier with the US Incentive Plan Design survey. Review or design your company’s incentive plan using data that spans 15 distinct industries. Choose from either the short-term incentive plan or sales incentive plan sections to analyze your data across numerous employee groups. With easy to understand information from 134 companies across the country, use this survey to analyze your incentive program for the following key areas:

  • Funding
  • Minimums, targets, and maximums
  • Payout criteria
  • Payout formula
  • Payout timing and frequency
  • Performance measures
  • Plan communication
  • Plan effectiveness
  • Plan eligibility
  • Plan type
Are you ready to enhance your organizational strength?

Short-Term Incentive Plan Design Survey
Participation open: September - October
Results publish: December, 2021

Sales Incentive Plan Design Survey
Participation open: September 2021 - January 2022
Results publish:1st quarter, 2022

2021 Results Available

  • 134 organizations
  • USD 1,200 – 3,300
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Survey Statistics

  • Number of Organizations: 134

Based on data from the 2021 US Short-Term Incentive Plan Design survey.

Data Collected

  • Funding
  • Minimums, targets, and maximums
  • Payout criteria
  • Payout formula
  • Payout timing and frequency
  • Performance measures
  • Plan communication
  • Plan effectiveness
  • Plan eligibility
  • Plan type

Data Analyzed

Industry

  • Banking/Financial Services
  • Chemicals
  • Consumer Goods
  • Energy
  • Healthcare Services
  • High Tech
  • Insurance/Reinsurance
  • Life Sciences
  • Logistics
  • Mining & Metals
  • Other Manufacturing
  • Other Non-Manufacturing
  • Retail & Wholesale
  • Services (Non-Financial)
  • Transportation Equipment

Analyzed by

  • Employee Groups
  • Industry

Custom analyses by Geographic Area, Employee Size (FTEs), or Revenue Size will be priced upon request. Survey results are delivered in a published PDF format to your imercer.com account under My Downloads.

Interested in short-term and sales incentive plan data for Canada? Check out the Canada Incentive Plan Design survey to further enhance your organization's talent strategy.

Pricing

Product Participant Non-Participant
2021 US Short-Term Incentive Plan Design Survey USD 1,200 USD 3,300
2021 US Sales Incentive Plan Design Survey USD 1,200 USD 3,300

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  • Survey purchase includes access for three (3) users. Additional users may be added during checkout for USD 200 each per module/survey.
  • Individuals or companies using Mercer data for consulting services or commercial purposes are subject to different rates. Please call for more information.
  • Short term incentive plan design results now available. Sales Incentive Plan Design results will be available in the 1st quarter of 2022.

Survey Schedule

Short-Term Incentive Plan Design Survey

  • Participation Opens: September 15
  • Participation Deadline: October 8
  • Report Available: December, 2021

Sales Incentive Plan Design Survey

  • Participation Opens: September 15, 2021
  • Participation Deadline: January 7, 2022
  • Report Available: 1st quarter, 2022

*This is a biennial survey. The next participation year and survey release is planned for 2021.

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2023 survey participation

2023 survey participation opens soon. The act of submitting data to a survey is known as survey participation and your company is then viewed as a participant. Survey participation is open to all organizations and is not required to purchase results.

Key Dates:

  • Participation opens June 1, 2023
  • Participation closes July 15, 2023

Why should you participate?

  • Identify adjustments needed to reflect the new shape of work
  • Align to employees’ shifting wants and needs
  • Discover opportunities to address inequities within your workforce

 

Product Participant Non-Participant
2023 US Incentive Plan Design USD 1,500 USD 4,500

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