Global Pay Summary

Employee pay often represents the largest expense for most companies, which means well-informed salary decisions are critical. Quickly review and evaluate base salary and total cash compensation around the world for a core set of benchmark jobs.

Published: January 2023

Next release: January 2024

File format(s): Online, Excel

Global online

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Region Excel

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Region selection: Americas | Asia Pacific | Central and Eastern Europe | Middle East & Africa | Western Europe

What's inside

Pay data for 50 core benchmark jobs around the world

Employee pay often represents the largest expense for companies; make well-informed salary decisions with ease using the Global Pay Summary. Evaluate your pay programs using annual base salary and total cash compensation data for 50 benchmark positions across 10 job families.

Up-to-date salary trends data

  • Annual base salary
  • Annual total cash compensation
  • Economic indicators (GDP, inflation, unemployment rates)
  • Labor market indicators (population, working age and economically active population gender ratios)

Benchmark within job families and across your organization

  • Executive leadership
  • Administration
  • Engineering
  • Finance & accounting
  • Human resources
  • Information technology
  • Legal & compliance
  • Manufacturing
  • Sales
  • Supply chain

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Available countries

Americas

  • Argentina
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Ecuador
  • Guatemala
  • Mexico
  • Panama
  • Peru
  • Puerto Rico
  • United States

Asia Pacific

  • Australia
  • Bangladesh
  • Cambodia
  • China-Beijing
  • China-Changzhou-Wuxi
  • China-Chengdu
  • China-Chongqing
  • China-Dalian
  • China-Dalian-Shenyang-Changchun
  • China-Guangdong
  • China-Hangzhou-Ningbo
  • China-Nanjing
  • China-Qingdao
  • China-Shanghai
  • China-Suzhou-Kunshan
  • China-Tianjin
  • China-Wuhan
  • China-Xiamen-Fuzhou
  • Hong Kong
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Japan
  • Malaysia
  • Myanmar
  • New Zealand
  • Pakistan
  • Philippines
  • Singapore
  • South Korea
  • Sri Lanka
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Vietnam

Central and Eastern Europe

  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Estonia
  • Hungary
  • Kazakhstan-Almaty
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Serbia
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Ukraine-Kiev

Western Europe

  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Portugal
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom

Middle East and Africa

  • Algeria
  • Egypt
  • Ghana
  • Israel
  • Ivory Coast
  • Jordan
  • Kenya
  • Morocco
  • Nigeria
  • Saudi Arabia
  • South Africa
  • Turkiye
  • United Arab Emirates

Glossary

Annual base salary

Annual base salary is monthly base salary times the number of months guaranteed.

Total cash compensation

Total cash compensation is total guaranteed cash compensation plus the annualized value of short-term incentive, sales incentive, profit sharing or other incentive awards.

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