Salary survey provider
Birches Group salary surveys
Birches Group is an HR consultancy focused on developing markets and the international development sector, serving NGOs, international and public-sector organizations and companies. It runs year-round salary and benefits surveys in more than 160 countries and territories, built on its own Community™ job framework, alongside job evaluation, salary scale design and policy consulting.
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, United States
- Focus
- Developing markets, International NGOs and commercial development organizations, International public sector (multilaterals, IFIs, bilateral agencies), Corporate employers, Expatriate pay and benefits
- Data covers
- Africa, Americas, Caribbean, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Oceania
- How you get the data
- Employers can join at any time: data is collected continuously through a short questionnaire followed by a detailed interview, and Birches Group analysts do the job matching. Access to results is bought per country, through an interactive data subscription (Indigo™) or a survey report subscription, with optional custom peer-group cuts.
- 160+
- countries and territories covered
- 4,600+
- survey participants
- 90+
- countries with separate NGO surveys
- 3
- data refreshes a year (April, July, October)
Birches Group salary surveys
- Multisector SurveysLocal pay and benefits from leading public and private employers and international NGOs · 151 countries and territoriesRefreshed each April, July and October; continuous collection
- NGO SurveysLocal pay and benefits for international NGOs and commercial development organizations · 91 countries and territoriesRefreshed each April, July and October; continuous collection
- International Public Sector SurveysLocal market data for multilaterals, IFIs, foreign ministries, bilateral development offices and international NGOs · Developing markets
- NGO Global Pay SurveyBase pay plus expatriate and international-staff benefits and policies (housing, schooling, cost-of-living, relocation, R&R, retirement) for NGO headquarters and field staff · Global
Survey list and figures from Birches Group’s website, checked October 8, 2026.
Using Birches Group data in CompTool
- We load every Birches Group survey you license at no extra cost, in under three days on average.
- Multi-match prices whole job families across Birches Group 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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