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The world’s largest and most comprehensive remuneration resource.
Mercer’s Total Remuneration Survey (TRS) stands as a global leader in employee compensation data, backed by a legacy of excellence and over two decades of experience. This comprehensive data resource encompasses the full rewards package, drawing insights from a vast pool of data collected from 50,000 organizations and 25 million employees worldwide. TRS provides in-depth compensation and benefits data consistently across geographies.
The survey serves as a crucial tool in establishing fair and competitive compensation practices in the job market.
Mercer’s Total Remuneration Survey offers information on all elements of total remuneration:
- Annual base salary
- Total guaranteed cash compensation (including annual fixed allowances)
- Total cash compensation (including annual variable cash)
- Total direct compensation (including long-term incentives)
- Total remuneration (including insured and fringe benefits)
Survey participation is streamlined and data is submitted via our online survey participation tool Mercer Data Connector.
Our comprehensive job catalogue (Mercer Job Library) is underpinned by our job evaluation system, Mercer International Position Evaluation (IPE), allowing organizations to benchmark by job and grade.
Results are delivered in various formats, including off the shelf reports as well as via our interactive tool, Mercer WIN (Workforce Intelligence Network) where users can interact with the data directly and customize it deendent on their analytical needs.
Survey fees are based on participation status. Companies that participate in the relevant market survey are eligible for more favourable fees. If your company did not participate, but would like to benefit from the participation rate, you can do so by committing to participate in the next survey cycle. Please select "Non-Participant with commitment to participate in next survey" in the Participation Status selection box.