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• The Mercer Executive Remuneration Guides: Pan-European Financial Services (PEFS) survey provides the market data and analytical tools to support remuneration programes for leading financial services organizations in Europe.
• The PEFS survey covers over 1,800 benchmark executive positions at the executive board and the next two reporting levels.
• This guide provides consistent and accurate market data and covers all aspects of total direct compensation, including all forms of cash compensation and long-term incentives.

Key features and benefits:

• Targets Europe's largest financial services businesses ensuring the relevance of comparator group to participating organizations
• Valuation of the total direct remuneration package, including base salary, bonuses and long-term incentives enabling comparisons to be made from the executive's perspective
• Survey roles underpinned by Mercer's International Position Evaluation tool, ensuring that positions are accurately compared on a like-for-like basis
• Pre-completed questionnaire (job matching, job grading and policies and practices) for previous year participants
• Unlimited refined comparisons and analyses to be made – e.g. how one specific aspect of a package compares with your own values
• A detailed report with comprehensive valuation tables of total direct remuneration for each role for various levels of executives across countries – with our online WIN® tool enabling detailed customized reports against relevant peer groups
• Analysis on trends and emerging practices, enabling participants to keep up to date on the latest executive pay practices

Statistics

• # of Organisations: 42
• # of Employees: 1,539
• # of Jobs: 96

Job families and positions surveyed

Mercer surveys more than 1,800 executive positions in PEFS. The analysis includes comparisons between board and non-board positions at the same level to create the following job families:

• Communications & Corporate Affairs
• Consumer & Commercial Banking
• Finance
• General Management
• Human Resources
• IT, Telecom & Internet
• Legal, Compliance & Audit
• Sales, Marketing & Product Management

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What do you receive?

• Online access – Data delivered online through Mercer WIN® accessible anywhere, at any time. Fully customise searches and statistics according to your individual needs, and receive instant comparisons of your organization's data against the market
• Survey overview – A general review of typical salary practices and compensation mix, employment trends, and other economic indicators related to human resource management decisions
• Commentary on survey results

List of Participants

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• Data Effective Date: 1 April
• Questionnaire Distribution: 15 April
• Client Participation Deadline: 29 June
• Publication Date: 28 September

John Langenius
john.langenius@mercer.com