Salary survey provider
Aon salary surveys
Aon is a global professional services firm that organizes its work around risk capital and human capital. On the human capital side it runs employer pay and benefits benchmarking products, the largest being the Radford McLagan Compensation Database, alongside talent, rewards and analytics consulting.
- Focus
- Compensation benchmarking across industries (technology, life sciences, financial services and more), Market pay-practice studies, Employee benefits benchmarking (U.S.), Total rewards analytics, Banking front-office and infrastructure performance benchmarking
- Data covers
- Global (115+ countries for the Radford McLagan Compensation Database), United States (Benefit Index)
- How you get the data
- Organizations take part in the Radford McLagan Compensation Database by submitting their own pay data, via HRIS integration or templates, and then use results in Aon's Human Capital Analytics platform; its market practice studies are completed through online questionnaires. Other benchmarking products are arranged through Aon's teams.
- 8,500+
- organizations participate in the Radford McLagan Compensation Database
- 115+
- countries covered by its compensation data
- 4,400+
- organizations in the latest Salary Increase and Turnover Study
- 1,000+
- organizations' benefit plans summarized in Benefit Index
Aon salary surveys
- Radford McLagan Compensation DatabaseGlobal pay benchmarks by industry, function, job level and location · Global; 115+ countriesData available year-round on the platform
- Salary Increase and Turnover StudySalary budget, structure movement and turnover trends · Global; 130+ countriesThree editions a year (results May, Sep and a Dec refresh in 2026)
- Short- and Long-Term Incentive Design StudyBonus and equity plan design practices · 43 surveyed countriesAnnual; results Oct 2026
- Intern, New Graduate and Pay Administration StudyEarly-career hiring pay and pay administration policies · 17 surveyed countriesAnnual; results Jul 2026
- Employee Experience and Paid Time-Off StudyWorkplace programs and paid leave policies · 17 surveyed countriesAnnual; results Sep 2026
- Sales Incentive Practices and Car Policy StudySales incentive design and company car policies · 17/19 surveyed countriesAnnual; results Aug 2026
- Severance and Change-in-Control StudySeverance and change-in-control provisions · 17 surveyed countriesAnnual; results Sep 2026
- Total Rewards Benchmarking PlatformCombined compensation and benefits positioning, drawing on the compensation database and Benefit Index data
- Benefit Index®Competitive value of U.S. benefit programs (retirement, health, welfare, time off, cash-based benefits) against a chosen peer group · United States
- Employee Benefits BenchmarkingBenefit plan cost, contribution, design and outcome comparisons against peers
- GaugeBanking front-office and infrastructure benchmarking of revenue, cost, headcount and compensation from bank-submitted data · Global banks
Survey list and figures from Aon’s website, checked October 8, 2026.
Using Aon data in CompTool
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- Multi-match prices whole job families across Aon and your other surveys in one pass.
- Blend and age the data by your own rules, alongside Squirrel’s real-time employer-posted pay.
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