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Renew Your Participation in the Radford McLagan Compensation Database

Your trusted resource for compensation insights for the 2025-2026 survey season.

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The Gold Standard in Compensation Data for More Than 50 Years

The Radford McLagan Compensation Database is the world’s leading source of benchmark compensation data designed to drive better workforce decisions. We’ve been empowering rewards teams across the globe for more than five decades, and our industry-leading features and market data refreshes are unrivaled. The culmination of the Radford and McLagan platforms in 2024 was an incredible accomplishment that was years in the making, but we recognize it required a significant amount of change for clients. While we will continue to enhance the client experience, we are not looking to introduce major changes from a product structure and methodology perspective in the coming year.

Today, we are excited to invite you to stay connected to the gold standard in compensation data for what promises to be an unforgettable survey season! We are stronger than ever before with the integration of our market-leading brands into a unified platform designed to meet your every need — no matter where you are located, which industry you work in or what you’re looking for.

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  1. Expanded Capabilities

  2. What’s New in 2025

  3. Unrivaled Industry Coverage

  4. Platform Features

  5. Market Practice Studies

  6. Database Growth

  7. Resources and Support

Elevating Your Organization with Expanded Capabilities

  • Unified Expertise

    Our Radford and McLagan offerings are now seamlessly combined, providing specialized data for the technology, life sciences and financial services industries, among others — all in one intuitive platform.

  • Comprehensive, Global Coverage

    Our enhanced database now includes more than 9,000 organizations, 30 million employees, and data from 100+ countries. You’ll find in-depth coverage for companies of all sizes and structures, from start-ups to large global multinationals.

  • Data Quality You Can Trust

    Our data is thoroughly reviewed and approved by Aon’s trusted experts, setting it apart from crowdsourced data. Rigorous quality checks mean you will receive verified, reliable data for strategic decision-making, so you can feel confident of every data point.

  • Detailed Job-Specific Insights

    With extensive job coverage and role-specific data, you can drill down into the exact roles you’re targeting, segmented by industry and/or location – delivering the precise insights you need to drive your talent strategy.

  • Dedicated Support Team

    From tailored guidance to quick answers, our team is here to enhance your experience every step of the way.

New Features for the Upcoming Survey Season

We are excited to introduce several new features, designed specifically with your organization’s needs in mind to enhance your experience and deliver greater value through the platform:

  • Improved Data Collection Template: In early 2025, you’ll receive a custom template based on your 2024 data submission, tailored to your industry and geographic participation.
  • Enhanced Analytics for Deeper Insights: We continue to invest and expand our market-leading analytics capabilities with the addition of Job Offers Data, allowing clients to access the latest hiring trends for in-demand roles. This feature leverages applicant tracking system data, fully aligned with the Radford McLagan Compensation Database job architecture, to provide timely insights into new hire pay trends.
  • Expanded Job Library: We’re adding over 500 new roles, with a focus on AI and machine learning, plus continued growth in executive, infrastructure, life sciences, technology, energy, healthcare, retail, media & gaming, financial services, and adjacent sectors.
  • New Participation and Analytics Bundles: We are introducing new bundles that will ensure you receive maximum benefit from your investment in data access and analytics.

Unrivaled Industry Coverage

Our compensation data undergoes a rigorous data quality review process by trusted professionals. In addition, we offer the most comprehensive and extensive job coverage and job specificity in the market, so you can drill down into the exact roles you are looking for, regardless of industry or location.

Our Industries Include

Database Coverage and Features

Reporting Features (5)

5 Solutions

Whether you're dealing with a fire drill request to assess pay for a new hire or looking to streamline your annual planning cycle, we have you covered.

  • Quick Benchmarks

    In a bind? Looking for data fast? Our Quick Benchmarks feature allows clients to instantly explore compensation data for thousands of jobs in any market using advanced filtering. Information is dynamically rendered on screen and available to export in seconds.

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  • Market Queries

    Are you on the hook to do the heavy lifting for your company’s next annual focal period? Market Queries allows you to create, save and download comprehensive benchmarking reports across all of your applicable talent markets in minutes.

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  • Employee vs Market Analysis

    Select an employee population, select a market, and compare them in real time. It’s that easy. Then use our tools to identify outliers so you can quickly focus on remediating employee retention risks.

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  • Executive Regression

    Finding data on executive pay that is perfectly right-sized to your organization can be a challenge. Our Executive Regression feature allows you to estimate executive pay levels specific to the size of your organization using statistically valid methodologies.

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  • Job Matrix

    Accurate job matching is essential to any compensation benchmarking effort. Use our Job Matrix to search and navigate Aon's complete job library in seconds, read job descriptions, and see where your organization has active employee matches.

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Actionable Analytics (5)

5 Solutions

By combining our immense database with sophisticated machine learning and predictive analytics, we give clients a new perspective on talent trends.

  • Job Offers Data

    Stay competitive in the job market with our new Job Offers Data tool, which will enable you to attract top talent by validating candidate demands, crafting competitive offers, refining retention strategies, and addressing salary gaps.

  • Location Analytics

    With remote and flexible working models on the rise, our Location Analytics feature allows you to compare talent availability, compensation levels, and pay differentials around the world. Select a job, click on the map, and begin exploring.

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  • SkillsGraph

    Powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology, SkillsGraph is a dynamic workforce skills library from Aon that provides clients with a proven methodology for classifying and managing the most sought-after skills in the talent market.

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  • Talent Intelligence

    With new jobs emerging, talent showing up in diverse locations, and the rapid evolution of workforce skills, robust market data for the job offers you need to make is not always available. Talent Intelligence harnesses machine learning to predict pay and solve this challenge.

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  • Talent Metrics

    We provide clients with vital talent metrics to inform their compensation and workforce planning activities, including salary increase budgets, turnover rates, and gender and ethnicity (U.S. only) distributions, among many other items.

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Beyond Pay: Market Practice Studies

Determining how much to pay an employee is only half the battle. Total rewards professionals also need reliable information on the design of compensation programs. When you agree to participate in and purchase the Radford McLagan Compensation Database, you’ll also be invited to join our ongoing series of market practice studies. These studies will round out your understanding of the talent market and include:

  • The Salary Increase and Turnover Study provides clients with actionable insights to ensure their annual salary budgets and retention strategies are aligned with overall market trends.
  • The Short- and Long-Term Incentive Design Study delivers data on the design and structure of annual bonus plans and cash- and equity-based multi-year incentives.
  • The Intern, New Graduate and Pay Administration Study offers insights into how companies can become and remain a destination of choice for early career talent.
  • The Employee Experience and Paid Time-Off Study provides a broad overview of the tools clients can use to boost engagement, from culture and values to sabbaticals and various paid time off programs.
  • The Sales Incentive Practices and Car Policy Study focuses on the intricacies of sales compensation plan design for commercially focused employees.
  • The Severance and Change-in-Control Study gives clients access to hard-to-find data on payout policies for executives and non-executives in a variety of not-for-cause termination scenarios.
  • Our portfolio of Private Market Studies gives clients at venture-backed, private equity owned, family-owned, and closely-held companies access to data on equity ownership levels for founders and non-founders, equity grant practices by stage of development, and board of director pay.
  • Our portfolio of Financial Services Studies gives clients access to critical industry-specific data on new graduate pay, deferred equity practices, and more.
Market Practice Studies

Leadership Backed By Experience — Our Database Growth Over 5 Decades

We have been partnering with the world’s leading companies across industries and geographies for more than 50 years — and our compensation database coverage by industry continues to grow. Today it includes: technology, life sciences, banking, asset management, retail and e-commerce, media and gaming, energy and renewables, manufacturing, and more.

Client Growth Over the Years

We continue to build upon our foundation of strength in all industry sectors, having added over 3,000 organizations to the Radford McLagan Compensation Database since 2020.

Organizations growth

3000+

Organizations added to the database since 2020

Employee Growth Over the Years

As the number of participating organizations grows, so too does the number of employees matched to benchmark job codes. Since 2020, the total number of employees included on our platform has grown by over 17 million.

 

Employees growth

17m+

Million employees added to our database since 2020

Resources and Support

  • Training Sessions

    We provide an extensive amount of both live and recorded training sessions covering data collection, publications, market practices, and broader talent opportunities

  • Direct Assistance

    Every client is assigned a Client Success Manager who can provide support as required and a globally monitored help desk for submitting questions or requests for assistance