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Korn Ferry's Global Total Rewards Pulse Survey

Insights on total rewards strategies, benefits, and salary benchmarking—from nearly 3,000 companies. Explore the latest results.

You’ve built a total rewards strategy to help you find and keep top talent—but is it keeping pace with your peers, and the wider market?

Korn Ferry’s Annual Global Total Rewards Pulse Survey gathers insights from organizations worldwide, offering the latest data on total rewards programs, benefits, and salary benchmarking.

If you design, create, and update total rewards packages for your organization, this is an essential read.

Our Latest Global Total Rewards Pulse Survey—the Results Are In

The results of our latest survey, Emerging Reward Trends—conducted in October 2024—are out now!

As work environments continue to evolve, organizations are rethinking their strategies to better attract, motivate, and retain talent. To remain competitive, they’re adapting their rewards strategies to align with new business goals and talent needs.

In our latest survey, nearly 7,500 organizations from more than 150 countries revealed how they are evolving total rewards programs, benefits, and cost-saving measures in 2024.

Key Takeaways

Intensified changes to reward strategies: Over the past two years, 50% of organizations have implemented moderate to significant changes to their reward strategies, with 60% planning future adjustments.
Tapping the brakes on talent acquisition: In challenging economic times, organizations are approaching labor cost management in a balanced manner by prioritizing moderating talent acquisition over cuts to the current workforce.
Hybrid and remote work: Work-from-home and hybrid work environments are now present in most companies, with office attendance requirements dropping from 89% (pre-pandemic) to 43% today.
Compensation forecasts: There is a positive business outlook, with 71% of organizations anticipating paying comparable or greater bonuses than last year. In general, 2025 base salary increase forecasts are comparable to slightly lower than 2024 end-of-year forecasts across most geographies.

Answering This Year’s Big Questions Around Total Rewards

As well as digging into the 2025 salary forecasts, our new survey will help you answer questions such as:

What is the main change to reward strategies that companies have been implementing?
What strategies are organizations using for labor cost reductions?
How do organizations approach compensation for remote versus in-office employees?

Do you want to discover the latest total rewards strategy insights to give your company a competitive edge with talent, improve retention, and increase ROI?

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