Salary survey provider
Pearl Meyer salary surveys
Pearl Meyer is a compensation consulting firm that advises boards and management on executive pay and leadership programs. It also runs a large portfolio of salary surveys, from cross-industry executive and planning surveys to sector surveys for banking, credit unions, healthcare, higher education, real estate, energy and engineering/construction, including surveys run with industry associations.
- Focus
- Executive compensation, Banking, Credit unions, Healthcare, Higher education, Real estate, Energy, Engineering and construction
- Data covers
- United States, Global coverage in some surveys (e.g. CHiPS One World, College Graduate and Intern, Offshore Drilling)
- How you get the data
- Organizations request input materials and submit their data for each survey; buying a survey's results can include a commitment to participate in the following edition. Some surveys (e.g.
- 2,300+
- survey clients
- 50+
- surveys
- 47
- surveys listed in the online survey portfolio
- 1,076+
- companies in the 2026 Executive Compensation and Benchmarking Survey
Pearl Meyer salary surveys
- Executive Compensation and Benchmarking SurveyBase, bonus, long-term incentive, executive benefit and perquisite data for 80+ roles in the top two management layers; 2026 edition had 1,076+ companies · United States
- The Compensation Planning SurveyMerit, general and total increase budgets, structure adjustments and promotion budgets by employee group; 563 organizations in the 2025-2026 edition · United States, with global salary budget data2025-2026 edition published October 2025
- The Pearl Meyer Benefits and Human Resources Policies SurveyBenefits programs (time off, health, disability, life, retirement, leave) and HR policies, broken out by revenue and industryEvery other year
- Technician and Technical Support Salary SurveyPay levels, ranges and incentives for 21 technician, technical support and skilled trades job families in R&D settings · United States (national)Annual
- Cyber Security, AI, and Data Science Salary SurveyBase, short-term incentive and total cash pay for cyber security, AI, robotics, quantum and data science roles; 141 organizations, 33,000+ employees
- College Graduate and Intern Compensation SurveyStarting salaries, sign-on bonuses and intern hourly rates by degree level; 2026 edition covers 17,000+ hires from 163 companies · 9 countries (US with regional breakouts plus global)
- CHiPS One World Compensation SurveyPay for R&D, engineering, IT, sales and core support functions across 250+ job families and 2,100+ positions · United States and global
- The Research and Development SurveyCash pay for scientists and engineers by field, degree and level, including maturity curves
- Job Titling Practices SurveyHow 400+ companies across six industries assign job titles, including abroad and after acquisitions
- National Banking Compensation SurveyPay for 300+ banking jobs; 2025 edition had 625 participating institutions · United StatesSubmission materials go out when the survey launches in April; 2026 results published September 14, 2026
- Bank Director Compensation and Governance Practices SurveyBank board pay and governance practices · United States (national)Every other year
- Banking Benefits and Human Resources Policies SurveyOfficer and non-officer benefits and HR policies at financial institutionsEvery other year
- Top Credit Unions CEO and Senior Executive Total Compensation SurveyCash pay, executive benefits and supplemental retirement for the CEO and 29 senior roles at large credit unions
- The Hospitals and Health Systems Executive Compensation and Benefits SurveyPay and benefits for 34 hospital and health system executive roles; 118 organizations from 28 states in 2026 · United States (national, upstate New York and rural/critical access reports)
- The Independent Colleges and Universities Executive Compensation and Benefits SurveyPay and benefits for 15 executive roles at independent colleges; 92 institutions in 2026 · United States (national)
- Faculty Compensation SurveyPay for professor, associate/assistant professor, instructor and visiting faculty ranks; 24 institutions and 3,000+ faculty in 2025 · United States
- Architectural, Engineering, and Construction Salary SurveysPay surveys for AEC firms, continued by Pearl Meyer from D. Dietrich Associates
- Data Center & Mission Critical Facilities Compensation SurveyPay and practices for design, project management and field roles on data center and other mission-critical projects (launching 2026)First edition launching in 2026
- Real Estate Compensation SurveyPay for 160 roles at commercial and residential real estate firms; 390 participants and 68,000+ employees in 2025
- Offshore Drilling Membership Group Salary SurveysClub surveys of offshore rig crew pay, reported separately for the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea and other international locations · Global (Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, other international)Regional pay scales every three years
Survey list and figures from Pearl Meyer’s website, checked October 8, 2026.
Using Pearl Meyer data in CompTool
- We load every Pearl Meyer survey you license at no extra cost, in under three days on average.
- Multi-match prices whole job families across Pearl Meyer 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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