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Do you have an easy-to-use source for comparing compensation and benefits, focused on your Top Executives?
Our Executive Remuneration Guides, available in 12 European countries, provide consistent and high-quality data covering various aspects of the full rewards package to support executive remuneration programs for leading organizations in Europe.
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Country Coverage
The surveys are available in 12 markets across Europe, including Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
If you require more information about the survey or wish to participate, please contact your local consultant.
Product details
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.
Policy and Practice summary
A summary of organizations’ remuneration policies, which includes salary budget forecasts, compensation mix by Executive level, short-term incentive, long-term incentive practices, non-executive board fees and benefits (depending on country).
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®.
*only available for participants
Mercer Executive Remuneration Guides cover up to five components (depending on country).
1
Base salary
Monthly base salary times the number of months guaranteed
2
Total guaranteed cash compensation
Base salary plus the annualized value of guaranteed allowances
3
Total cash compensation
Total guaranteed cash compensation plus the annualized value of short-term incentive, sales incentive, profit sharing or other incentive awards
4
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
5
Total remuneration (available in selected countries)
Total direct compensation plus the annualized value of benefits
A wide range of cross-industry* jobs in various job families:
- Administration, Facilities & Secretarial
- Communications & Corporate Affairs
- Construction
- Creative & Design
- Customer Service & Contact Center Operations
- Data Analytics/Warehousing, & Business Intelligence
- Engineering & Science
- Finance
- General Management
- Human Resources
- IT, Telecom & Internet
- Legal, Compliance & Audit
- Production & Skilled Trades
- Project/Program Management
- Quality Management
- Real Estate Management, Property Development & Investment
- Sales, Marketing & Product Management
- Supply Chain
- Transportation Services
*Industry specific jobs are available in our industry products.
Details
Online data submission made simple!
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 .
Pricing & schedule
2026 Survey
| Location | Data Submission Deadline | Report Delivery Date | Price (2026, USD) | Price (2025, USD) |
| Western European | NA | 15-Dec-26 | 12,000 | 12,000 |
| Denmark | 26-Jun-26 | 16-Oct-26 | 7,600 | 7,600 |
| Finland | 4-Aug-26 | 28-Oct-26 | 6,850 | 6,850 |
| France | 4-Aug-26 | 5-Nov-26 | 6,000 | 6,000 |
| Germany* | 11-Aug-26 | 23-Oct-26 | 6,700 | 6,700 |
| Italy | 12-Jun-26 | 12-Nov-26 | 6,850 | 6,850 |
| Netherlands* | 24-Jul-26 | 27-Oct-26 | 6,500 | 6,500 |
| Norway* | 1-Jul-26 | 27-Oct-26 | 6,850 | 6,850 |
| Portugal* | 28-Jul-26 | 18-Nov-26 | 6,200 | 6,200 |
| Spain | 4-Sep-26 | 25-Nov-26 | 7,100 | 7,100 |
| Sweden | 17-Jun-26 | 1-Oct-26 | 9,900 | 9,900 |
| Switzerland * | 17-Jul-26 | 25-Sep-26 | 6,550 | 6,550 |
| United Kingdom * | 19-Aug-26 | 17-Nov-26 | 7,900 | 7,900 |
* Note: Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Portugal and United Kingdom surveys are covering only Total Direct Compensation (Total Remuneration excluding Benefits).
Please note that this is a participant only survey, and all above prices are applicable for participants only.
There are various discounts available for multiple-year and multiple-survey purchase, please contact your local consultant.
Western European MERG
As organizations move from local peer groups to European peer groups for benchmarking executives, Mercer has developed a Western European executive remuneration publication that combines country MERGs with more than 1,000 of Europe's largest parent organizations and over 1,500 entities.
The results can be viewed for all of Western Europe or for one of the five, smaller zones:
| Zone 1 | Zone 2 | Zone 3 | Zone 4 | Zone 5 |
|
Belgium |
Ireland |
Greece |
Denmark |
Austria |
|
France |
United Kingdom |
Italy |
Finland |
Germany |
|
Netherlands |
Spain |
Norway |
Switzerland |
|
|
Luxembourg |
Portugal |
Sweden |
Key features:
- Coverage: from Base Salary to Total Direct Compensation
- Delivered through WIN® with ability to create custom views, peer groups etc.
- Survey Overview summary of the economic, political and labor trends in Europe
- Actual and Regressed Data by Job and/or Position Class (OurInternational Position Evaluation (IPE) methodology for job evaluation)
Contact us
| Country | Contact | Telephone | |
| Denmark | Marta Rajca | Marta.Rajca@mercer.com | +45 20460231 |
| Finland | Johannes Korhonen | johannes.korhonen@mercer.com | +358 40 4134116 |
| France | Sophie de Heer | sophie.de.heer@mercer.com | +33 1 55 21 38 55 |
| Germany | Anna Gasiorowska | Anna.Gasiorowska@mercer.com | +48 22 4564120 |
| Italy | Riccardo Bruno | riccardo.bruno@mercer.com | +39 02 7241 3228 |
| Mariagrazia Galliani | mariagrazia.galliani@mercer.com | +39 02 7241 3380 | |
| Netherlands | Urszula Lewandowska | Urszula.Lewandowska@mercer.com | +31 6 15372218 |
| Jurwin Rickets | jurwin.rickets@mercer.com | +31 6 15372218 | |
| Norway | Anders Waller | anders.waller@mercer.com | +47 480 76 963 |
| Portugal | Frederico Farreca | Frederico.Farreca@mercer.com | +351 91 152 7808 |
| Marta Dias | marta.dias@mercer.com | +351 21 318 0517 | |
| Spain | Eduardo Garcia-Rico | eduardo.garcia.rico@mercer.com | +34 607 566 129 |
| Belen Martinez | belen.martinez@mercer.com | +34 66 145 10 22 | |
| Sweden | Denys Iuzefchuk | Denys.Iuzefchuk@mercer.com | +46 76 8612856 |
| Switzerland | Mikolaj Jaszczuk | mikolaj.jaszczuk@mercer.com | +41 44 200 45 48 |
| Magdalena Bielecka | magdalena.bielecka@mercer.com | +48 693 560981 | |
| United Kingdom | Kamila Janiczek | Kamila.Janiczek@mercer.com | +48 22 3765571 |
| Peter Boreham | peter.boreham@mercer.com | +44 20 7178 6993 | |
| Neil Hurst | neil.hurst@mercer.com | +44 20 7178 3172 | |
| Western Europe | Karol Szczepanski | Karol.Szczepanski@mercer.com | +48 22 456 4172 |