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Elif Lindqvist· Bellwether Consulting
Most of our 2,300 employees are in Western Europe, but we have about 120 people across two countries where annual inflation has been running above 40%. I lead reward for a…
Colin Walsh· Kestrel Aerospace
Our survey data for India has an effective date of 1 September and our structure takes effect on 1 April. I manage reward for the Bengaluru and Pune centres of a European…
Rosa Petrov· Beacon Retail Group
Last year 9% of our headcount received an off-cycle base pay increase, on top of a 3.5% annual review. I work for a Canadian retailer with roughly 12,000 employees, about 1,800 of…
Samir Grant· Vantage Telecom
After the latest collective agreement increase for operators, our shift leaders are on average only 4% ahead of the highest-paid operator on their shift, and that is before…
Bianca Walsh· Pinehurst Foods
Our pay policy is market median for everyone. I am at a health technology company in Sweden, about 950 employees. Leadership now wants to position machine learning and security…
Elif Yilmaz· Tidewater Utilities
After a job evaluation exercise at a housing association in the north of England, about 1,100 staff, 41 people ended up above their new range maximum, by between 2% and 19%. We…
Omar Quintero· Cardinal Insurance
Our firm is a management consultancy in the UK with about 480 people and five levels: analyst, consultant, senior consultant, principal, director. Each has a single band. They are…
Nina Vargas· Steinbach Industrie
We are a software company of about 850 people in the UK with two pay zones: London at 100% and rest of UK at 90%. Zone is set by contractual office location. Since going hybrid,…
Dana Whitfield· Meridian Health Systems
Our main survey publishes once a year with an April effective date. By the time we run our structure review in January, the data is nine months old and our aging factor is…
Elena Vasquez· Northfield Society
A quick pulse check ahead of the regional meetings. Results are visible once you vote.
Marcus Oyelaran· Northwind Logistics
We used to run 11 geographic zones in the US. Last year we collapsed to four zones. Net cost was about 0.6% of payroll and the reduction in escalations has been dramatic.
Elena Vasquez· Northfield Society
Median budgets held at 3.6% for a second year, with technology roles again the outlier. Read the announcement
Colin Walsh· Kestrel Aerospace
Budget for next year has come in at 2%. We are a UK university with about 2,600 professional services staff on a market-based structure, separate from the academic pay spine. Our…
Elif Lindqvist· Bellwether Consulting
We are a family-owned precision components maker in the English Midlands with 310 employees. Until last year there were 60 job titles and no structure at all. I am the HR manager…
Elif Lindqvist· Bellwether Consulting
About 6% of our population sits at or within 1% of range maximum. We are a utilities company in the UK with around 4,000 employees, many with long service. Today those people get…
Camille Quintero· Cardinal Insurance
Sharing this because I could not find anyone writing about the downside. Three years ago, at a German industrial manufacturer of about 5,500 people, we went from 11 grades with…
Quentin Kowalski· Calibre Software
Our guideline is 8–12% for a one-grade promotion. I work for a pharmaceutical distributor in the US with about 3,400 employees and 15% midpoint progression. The trouble is where…
Nina Vargas· Steinbach Industrie
In 2024 we stopped moving our salary structure every year. I am at a public body in Australia with about 2,200 staff, and annual market movement had been running at 2–2.5% for…
Maya Chen· Halcyon Financial Group
Nobody had requested it. I ran average compa-ratio by gender within each grade at our Canadian engineering and construction firm, about 2,900 employees, simply to see. Overall the…
Bianca Walsh· Pinehurst Foods
Our consultants have proposed replacing grade midpoints with a market reference point for each job. I am at a medical devices company in Germany with about 2,000 employees and 14…
