Finance, Accounting, and Legal Compensation Data, 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

1,213

Positions published

3,116

Organizations

697,945

Observations

Position Families

Communications & Corporate Affairs
Finance
Insurance
Outsourcing & Global Capability Centers

Data Analytics/Warehousing, & Business Intelligence
General Management
Legal, Compliance & Audit

Position Sub-families

Communications & Corporate Affairs Leadership
Data Analytics/Warehousing, & Business Intelligence Management
Finance & Accounting Leadership
Financial Control
Accounting
Treasury
Credit & Collections
Risk Management
Claims Services
Legal & Compliance Management
Regulatory Affairs
Fraud Detection & Prevention
Environmental and Employee Health & Safety
Data Management, Processing & Analytics (Outsourcing & Global Capability Centers)

Investor Relations
Data Analytics & Business Intelligence (BI)
Finance Generalists
Management Accounting
Tax
Accounts Payable/Receivable
Business Strategy & Planning
Underwriting & Loss Control
Corporate Compliance & Legal Leadership
Legal
Internal Audit
Compliance
Finance & Accounting (Outsourcing & Global Capability Centers)
Banking & Finance (Outsourcing & Global Capability Centers)

More details

Current release: August 2024

Next release: August 2025

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Base Pay
Long-term Incentive Eligibility and Grants
Short-term Incentive Eligibility and Amounts
Years in Position

FLSA Status
Organization Data
Years in Organization

Industry

Banking/Financial Services
Consumer Goods
High Tech
Life Sciences
Mining & Metals
Other Non-Manufacturing
Services (Non-Financial)

Chemicals
Energy
Insurance/Reinsurance
Logistics
Other Manufacturing
Retail & Wholesale
Transportation Equipment

Organization size

Assets
Net Revenue
Number of Employees

Gross Premiums
Net Sales Revenue
Operating Expenses/Budget

Career stream

Executives
Professional

Management
Para-Professional

Geographic area

Metropolitan
Regional

National