Pay Climate
For keeping up to date with pay trends and monitoring the economy
£785
- Quarterly e-bulletins
- Expert analysis of pay trends
- Monthly subscriber only content
- Six users + optional additional users
What does it provide?
- Up-to-date analysis of trends in pay reviews, with sectoral breakdowns and named organisation data, allowing you to see who is paying what
- Forecasts for inflation and features on key issues in pay and reward
- Four electronic issues a year in March, June, September and December
- Monthly updates on trends in pay rises, including full analysis, sectoral breakdowns and a table of the latest awards monitored by IDR, plus updates on the latest official figures for average earnings growth, inflation and the labour market
- Access to IDR's subscriber zone, providing regular viewpoint articles written by pay experts at IDR
- Invitations to subscriber-only briefings from our Editor-in-Chief and lead researchers
- Six logins + optional additional users
- 10% discount on IDR pay and benefits reports and events, including our annual flagship Pay Planning Conference
How does it work?
Subscribers receive four electronic issues a year in March, June, September and December, along with monthly updates on pay awards, inflation and the labour market. You can access these issues by logging on to the "Subscriber only" zone of our website.
With a Pay Climate subscription you also gain access to regular feature articles written by our pay experts, an archive of previous issues, and a subscriber-only area on our website with key indicators to inform pay decisions.
Pay Climate also provides you with opportunities to get involved in our research, and to put questions to our in-house team of pay experts.
Our up-to-date information, collected by an in-house research team, combined with expert commentary, makes Pay Climate an essential resource for HR professionals. A straightforward sign-up process with no complex contractual arrangements, contact us today to subscribe.
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This issue features our special annual look at the year ahead, based on your responses to our survey of prospects for pay and conditions. The results show clearly that pay is right at the top of the agenda for reward specialists, who as usual will have to balance upward pressures from recruitment, retention and motivation on the one hand, and inflation on the other, with downward pressures from affordability in many cases.
Pay Benchmarker
Get access to the data behind the commentary by subscribing to Pay Benchmarker– a comprehensive tool that includes around 800 pay awards annually, plus 10,000 salary records across 200 job roles from approximately 1,800 companies, many of which are named. This platform is accessible online at any time and allows users to benchmark roles and view up-to-date pay award information.
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