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Pay Benchmarker

Online Benchmarking Tool

Our tool helps HR professionals stay ahead on pay.

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Pay Data

Intelligent Decisions

Providing independent data and expert advice on your pay challenges.

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Pay Climate

Information Service

Regular bulletins including; pay review analysis; key labour market indicators; inflation forecasts and topical analysis of pay trends.

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Independent pay data and research, enabling intelligent HR decisions

Incomes Data Research (IDR) was founded with the sole purpose of providing independent data on pay and benefits. Our services enable HR practitioners to make informed, intelligent decisions on pay, reward and HR policy and practice.

Services

Pay Review Data

IDR collects 800 salary reviews annually enabling us to continually monitor and analyse pay trends.

Salary Level Data

Our database contains 10,000 salary records, covering 250 job titles from around 900 organisations, enabling robust and accurate market benchmarking.

Benefits Data

Our team collect data on employee benefits provision, covering a wide range of core and non-core benefits.

Benchmarking

IDR can provide bespoke, totally flexible and confidential pay and benefits benchmarking services, covering base pay, total reward and reward strategy.

Bespoke Research

Our experts have the versatility to provide bespoke research and analysis on a wide range of pay and employment topics.

Reward Policy Research

Our independence means we are well suited to conduct research for government bodies, regulators, employers’ bodies, and trade unions.

Pay Benchmarker

Pay Benchmarker will help you to ensure you are paying the right level of salary necessary to recruit, retain and motivate staff in your sector and region. It brings together all of the data collected by IDR with user-friendly functionality.

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Pay Climate

Pay Climate provides the latest picture on pay awards across all sectors of the economy to enable pay practitioners to accurately assess the current climate on pay. Gain our insights on the key trends and developments in pay.

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Reports

Our specialist pay and benefits reports provide the data and commentary you need for key sectors and areas of reward.

Report | 22 Apr 2020

Impact of climate change on HR

Report | 11 Mar 2020

Pay and Conditions for Lawyers

Report | 15 Jan 2020

Pay and Conditions in Retail 2020

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Viewpoints

Our viewpoints provide insights into our knowledge and expertise relating to pay and employment. Learn how to gain full access.

case studies

Reopening the economy starts with markets and car showrooms

pay increases

Median remains steady as both freezes and higher awards rise

employee benefits

Many firms are focussing on employee benefits

inflation

Inflation falls across all indicators

labour market

Vacancies fall as COVID19's impact on labour market begins to show

average earnings

Earnings growth slows to 2.4% with lockdown impact yet to show

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News

02/06/2020 UK finance still struggles with gender pay gap

02/06/2020 Bosses believe working from home saves money, poll claims

02/06/2020 How cities might change if we worked from home more

02/06/2020 Strong support for cutting UK stock market trading hours, says LSE

02/06/2020 Recommended trainee pay held at existing rates

02/06/2020 FE workforce data shows college teacher pay down

02/06/2020 Fuller's gives 5,000 staff early access to pay - Employee Benefits

01/06/2020 New agreement to ensure NHS staff in England are paid properly for every working hour | News, Press release | News | UNISON National

01/06/2020 GMB moves towards pay dispute at Homerton

01/06/2020 New flexible working arrangement saves more than 900 JCB jobs

01/06/2020 CWU anger at ‘provocative’ BT move to attack redundancy terms

01/06/2020 CWU pushing for better pay and conditions across UK call centres | The Star

01/06/2020 British Airways may outsource work of 450 redundant employees

01/06/2020 Business analysis: Why Covid-19 has waged war on gender pay gap progress

01/06/2020 If our PM 'gets' apprenticeships, where is the support?

01/06/2020 BP to pay 5,000 employees the real living wage - Employee Benefits

01/06/2020 46% of employees cancel 7 days annual leave 2020 - Employee Benefits

01/06/2020 Early years and childcare sector at risk of collapse in England

29/05/2020 More CMO roles held by women and ethnic minorities

29/05/2020 Two-thirds of people back higher income tax to fund care workers pay rise

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News and events

Keep up to date with company news, press releases, events articles and upcoming conferences from IDR.

News | 18 Apr 2020

Important information about CJRS from HMRC

News | 14 Apr 2020

Half of firms are honouring pay rises agreed before coronavirus crisis struck, study shows | Press mention

News | 01 Apr 2020

What happens to pay in a pandemic?

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