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Human Capital Analytics

Renew Your Participation in the Radford McLagan Compensation Database

Your trusted partner for compensation insights for the 2026-2027 cycle

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The Gold Standard in Data Quality—Empowering Better Compensation Decisions

In a talent market that never stands still, having the right data at your fingertips is critical to effective global workforce planning. The Radford McLagan Compensation Database gives you the clarity and confidence to make informed decisions—whether you’re navigating organizational design, tackling retention challenges, or advancing pay equity. With trusted insights spanning industries, regions, and job levels, renewing your access ensures you stay ahead with actionable data and expert support. At Aon, we’re dedicated to turning complexity into clarity, so your people strategy delivers meaningful results.

Our comprehensive global coverage gives you access to detailed insights on companies of every size and structure—from start-ups to large multinationals. Our database spans:

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  1. What’s New in 2026

  2. Industry Coverage

  3. Platform Features

  4. Market Practice Studies

  5. Resources and Support

  • 8700+

    Organizations

  • 30+

    Million Employees

  • 115+

    Countries

Explore Fresh Features for the Upcoming Cycle

We’re excited to share a series of enhancements, shaped by your feedback, to help you make confident decisions and navigate workforce challenges. These updates will roll out throughout the 2026-2027 year, reinforcing our commitment to continuously improving your experience.

  • AI and Key Roles Commitment: By collaborating with clients and leveraging our experts, our database continues to evolve—capturing the most in-demand roles across fast-growing fields. This includes expanded coverage in AI, where we've added more executive-level roles to reflect the shifting talent landscape and ensure you're equipped for what’s next. Based on client partnership and demand, we are introducing two new industry modules this year—Food, Agribusiness & Beverage and Transportation & Logistics—delivering added value to these sectors through expanded job and data coverage, along with actionable insights.
  • Flexible Data Submission: We’re committed to simplifying data submission and delivering a faster, more streamlined experience through flexible, intuitive options tailored to your organization’s needs. You can trust that every data point is rigorously validated by Aon’s experts—ensuring the accuracy and integrity of your information for confident, high-quality decisions. In addition, our newly released Submission Validation Dashboard provides real-time feedback and added assurance as you complete your submission.
  • Enhanced Job Matching: Experience a new era of job matching, powered by AI for speed, simplicity, and confidence. Effortlessly input job descriptions or key details, and instantly receive high-confidence match recommendations. It’s a smarter, faster way to pinpoint the right fit—so you can focus on hiring decisions, not manual sorting.
  • AI-Powered Comp Assistant: Discover a smarter approach to market data searches with our AI-powered Comp Assistant. Simply describe the market data you need, and the assistant will intelligently apply the right filters—even for complex, multi-step requests. Gain faster, more relevant insights with less effort—so you can focus on decision-making, not data wrangling.

All these innovations come together within our enhanced Human Capital Analytics platform, designed with your experience in mind. You and your team will benefit from a smarter, simpler platform that brings valuable insights to your fingertips—supporting both your day-to-day needs and your most strategic decisions.

Industry Coverage

Database Coverage and Features, Market Practice Studies

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.

  • Fast Insights When You Need Them Most

    Need answers fast? Our Quick Benchmarks tool allows instant exploration of compensation data for thousands of roles across any market. Advanced filters deliver actionable insights on-demand, with data dynamically rendered on screen and export-ready in seconds.

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  • Effortless Market Comparisons, Anytime

    Streamline your annual focal planning with Market Queries. Create, save, and download comprehensive benchmarking reports tailored to your specific talent markets - all in just minutes.

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  • Real-Time Employee vs. Market Insights

    Gain clarity with real-time comparisons. Select an employee population, match it against market data, and identify retention risks using actionable insights from our robust analytics.

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  • Tailored Executive Pay Solutions

    Finding the right executive pay benchmarks has never been easier. Our Executive Regression feature uses statistically validated methodologies to tailor executive pay levels specific to your organization’s size.

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  • Job Matching Made Simple

    Accurate job matching is critical for effective benchmarking. Use our Job Matrix to browse Aon's comprehensive job library, access detailed job descriptions, and confirm organizational matches in seconds.

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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

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