2025 Salary Planning

Salary Increase Projections 2025 (and 2024) - SHRM

U.S. employers are planning for 3.5% pay raises on average next year—a dip from the past couple of years—due to a cooling labor market.

Compensation planning for 2025: Five trends that matter

We have identified five trends in the labor market that we believe will shape an employer's response for 2025: labor costs, pay transparency, the minimum ...

2024-2025 Salary Budget Survey - WorldatWork

Offering robust, year-over-year data, the survey will help you design competitive compensation plans that attract and retain high-performing employees.

Mercer: 2025 Salary Projections Consistent with 2024 - SHRM

On average, US employers are budgeting for 3.3% merit increases and 3.6% increases for their total salary budgets for nonunionized employees.

2025 Salary Increase Planning Tips - Aon

Companies around the world are experiencing lower employee voluntary turnover and planning for salary increase budgets in 2025. Headcount will ...

U.S. Compensation planning survey - Mercer.com

Among the 5% of clients who have already approved their 2025 salary budgets, the approved budgets are lower than what was proposed. Key trends. It's time to ...

Conference Board Projects 3.9% Salary Increase Budgets for 2025

A report from The Conference Board showed U.S. employers are anticipating 3.9% salary increase budgets for 2025.

Budgets for base salaries expected to soar again in 2025 - CFO.com

US companies' base-salary budgets are projected to rise sharply in 2025 for a third straight year, according to a new report from The Conference Board.

2025 Projected Annual Merit Increases | Mercer - iMercer.com

For companies that have a separate promotional budget, the average promotional increase budget for 2025 is 1.0%. This time, Mercer asked about ...

Survey Reveals Salary Budgets Are Growing at Near-Record Pace

Latest Press Release · Employers, on average, report planned salary increase budgets of 3.9% for 2025. · This is down from actual increases of 4.4 ...

Companies boosting salary budgets at near-record pace in 2025

The rise in salary budgets, although lagging the 4.4% boost in 2023, will exceed the 3.8% hike this year, the Conference Board said, reporting ...

US Compensation Planning Survey - iMercer.com

Current information on important topics related to compensation planning · 2025 Projected Salary Increase & Total Increase Budgets · 2025 Promotional Increases ...

2025 Compensation Trends Your Organization Should Know About

After forecasting that average overall salary increase budgets would drop to 4.1% this year, U.S. respondents reported that average overall ...

Salary budgets could grow at near-record pace for 2025 - HR Dive

According to a Payscale survey, U.S. employers are planning for 3.5% raises for 2025 — though these also range from about 3% to 4.5%, depending ...

Report: Employers Plan to Raise Wages 3.9% in 2025

The latest Salary Budget Planning Report released by. Willis Towers Watson (WTW) shows that salary budget increases are expected to rise by 3.9% in. 2025. The ...

How Much Will Salaries Increase in 2025? | Careers | U.S. News

Key Takeaways · Surveys and market analysis point to average salary increases between 3.5% and 3.9% in 2025. · Workers can position themselves ...

Planning Global Compensation Budgets for 2025

Our exploration begins by reviewing key global compensation trends outlined in the recent World Economic Outlook (WEO) report by the International Monetary ...

US Salary Increase Budgets 2024-2025 - The Conference Board

Employers expect 2025 base pay budgets to rise by nearly 4%, continuing a two-decade high that began in 2022.

Salary budgets for 2025 are growing at a near record pace

More raises could be coming in 2025. Despite a hiring slowdown, companies are planning to increase salary budgets by an average of 3.9%.

Will 2025 See Lower Salary Increases? Salary.com Releases

The survey also showed a return to typical salary increases of 3 to 3.9 percent, as reported by 38 percent of respondents in 2024, compared to ...