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Do you have an easy-to-use source for comparing compensation and benefits, focused on your Top Executives?
Mercer 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.
Do you have an easy-to-use source for comparing compensation and benefits, focused on your Top Executives?
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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 Mercer consultant.
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
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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
Job families and positions surveyed
Mercer Executive Remuneration Guides covers close to 2,000 cross-industry executive jobs, from the following job families:
- General Management
- Administration, Facilities & Secretarial
- Communications & Corporate Affairs
- Construction
- Creative & Design
- Customer Service & Contact Center Operations
- Data Analytics/Warehousing, & Business Intelligence
- Engineering & Science
- Finance
- Hospitality (Food Service & Lodging)
- 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
2022 Survey
| Location | MERG Price | Data Submission Deadline | Report Delivery Date |
| Western European | EUR 8,650 | NA | 16-Dec |
| Pan-European Financial Services (PEFS) | EUR 4,550 | 29-Jun | 3-Oct |
| Denmark | EUR 6,200 | 1-Jul | 14-Oct |
| Finland | EUR 5,300 | 22-Jul | 21-Oct |
| France | EUR 5,700 | 22-Jul | 25-Oct |
| Germany * | EUR 4,750 | 12-Aug | 26-Oct |
| Italy | EUR 4,950 | 13-Jun | 7-Nov |
| Netherlands | EUR 4,600 | 26-Jul | 27-Oct |
| Norway* | EUR 6,150 | 22-Aug | 28-Nov |
| Portugal | EUR 4,750 | 15-Jul | 15-Nov |
| Spain | EUR 5,150 | 6-Sep | 25-Nov |
| Sweden | EUR 7,250 | 13-Jun | 12-Oct |
| Switzerland * | EUR 4,750 | 22-Jul | 28-Sep |
| United Kingdom * | EUR 5,300 | 19-Aug | 17-Nov |
* Note: Germany, Norway, Switzerland 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 Mercer consultant.
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 600 of Europe's largest parent organizations and over 1,000 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 |
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|
Luxembourg |
Portugal |
Sweden |
Key features:
- Coverage: from Base Salary to Total Direct Compensation
- Delivered through Mercer 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 (Mercer’s International Position Evaluation (IPE) methodology for job evaluation)
| Country | Contact | Telephone | |
| Denmark | Paulina Paczkowska | paulina.paczkowska@mercer.com | +48 22 4366849 |
| Finland | Teemu Korhonen | teemu.korhonen@mercer.com | +48 22 456 42 99 |
| Juha Soikkanen | juha.soikkanen@mercer.com | +358 9 86774319 | |
| France | Sophie de Heer | sophie.de.heer@mercer.com | +33 1 55 21 38 55 |
| Germany | Tomasz Stachurski | tomasz.stachurski@mercer.com | +49 69 689 778 472 |
| Italy | Riccardo Bruno | riccardo.bruno@mercer.com | +39 02 7241 3228 |
| Mariagrazia Galliani | mariagrazia.galliani@mercer.com | +39 02 7241 3380 | |
| Sara Bottaro | sara.bottaro@mercer.com | +39 02 7241 3335 | |
| Netherlands | Joep Krekelaar | joep.krekelaar@mercer.com | +31 (0)6 1559 8240 |
| Norway | Sjur Teigland | sjur.teiglandi@mercer.com | +47 905 73 702 |
| Portugal | Luis Vinagre | luis.vinagre@mercer.com | +351 91 906 6347 |
| Marta Dias | marta.dias@mercer.com | +351 21 318 0517 | |
| Spain | Enrique Torres | enrique.torres@mercer.com | +34 66 150 26 83 |
| Belen Martinez | belen.martinez@mercer.com | +34 66 145 10 22 | |
| Sweden | Denys Iuzefchuk | denys.iuzefchuk@mercer.com | +46 768 612 856 |
| Switzerland | Mikolaj Jaszczuk | mikolaj.jaszczuk@mercer.com | +41 44 200 45 48 |
| United Kingdom | Ivo Gyuzelev | ivo.gyuzelev@mercer.com | +44 20 7178 3773 |
| Peter Boreham | peter.boreham@mercer.com | +44 20 7178 6993 | |
| Neil Hurst | neil.hurst@mercer.com | +44 20 7178 3172 | |
| Western Europe | Joep Krekelaar | joep.krekelaar@mercer.com | +31 (0)6 1559 8240 |
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