Compensation Data | Finance, Accounting and Legal, United States

Critical data for essential positions

Finance, accounting, and legal teams are essential to any company, making the competitive talent market across industries especially tight. Knowing what the market is offering and paying competitively is crucial for securing, motivating, and keeping your key employees. Having current, reliable market data is necessary for setting pay at the right level.

The Finance, Accounting & Legal Survey segment of the US MBD: Mercer Benchmark Database includes total compensation salary data for more than 1,200 positions to help guide your compensation planning for roles across four main career streams:

Executive
Management
Para-professional
Professional

1,279

Positions published

3,071

Organizations

734,460

Observations

Position Families

Communications & Corporate Affairs
Data Analytics/Warehousing, & Business Intelligence
Finance
General Management

Insurance
Legal, Compliance & Audit
Outsourcing & Global Capability Centers

Position Sub-families

Accounting
Accounts Payable/Receivable
Banking & Finance (Outsourcing & Global Capability Centers)
Business Strategy & Planning
Claims Services
Communications & Corporate Affairs Leadership
Compliance
Corporate Compliance & Legal Leadership
Credit & Collections
Data Analytics & Business Intelligence (BI)
Data Analytics/Warehousing, & Business Intelligence Management
Data Management, Processing & Analytics (Outsourcing & Global Capability Centers)
Environmental and Employee Health & Safety
Finance & Accounting (Outsourcing & Global Capability Centers)

Finance & Accounting Leadership
Finance Generalists
Financial Control
Fraud Detection & Prevention
Internal Audit
Investor Relations
Legal
Legal & Compliance Management
Management Accounting
Regulatory Affairs
Risk Management
Tax
Treasury
Underwriting & Loss Control

More details

Current release: August 2025

Next release: August 2026

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Base Pay
FLSA Status
Long-term Incentive Eligibility and Grants
Organization Data

Short-term Incentive Eligibility and Amounts
Years in Organization

Industry

Banking/Financial Services
Chemicals
Consumer Goods
Energy
High Tech
Insurance/Reinsurance
Life Sciences

Logistics
Mining & Metals
Other Manufacturing
Other Non-Manufacturing
Retail & Wholesale
Services (Non-Financial)
Transportation Equipment

Organization size

Assets
Gross Premiums
Net Revenue

Net Sales Revenue
Number of Employees
Operating Expenses/Budget

Career stream

Executives
Management

Para-Professional
Professional

Geographic area

Metropolitan
National

Regional