Incentive Pay Practices 2026 Executive Summary

Designing incentive pay is getting more complex. Economic uncertainty, intensifying competition for talent, and growing pressure to tie rewards to performance are forcing organizations to be more deliberate than ever. See how your peers are structuring their short- and long-term incentives, and get the data you need to design with confidence.

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For Members: Customize results with the interactive dashboard

The most useful benchmark is rarely based on organization sector alone. Size, industry, and, for private companies, family or private-equity ownership can all change which organizations belong in your reference group. 

The interactive dashboard, new this year, lets you filter the survey results by the characteristics that match your organization, so you can see what incentive practices look like among companies like yours rather than across the market as a whole.


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