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Fewer organizations enhanced their total rewards this year in comparison to 2022 and 2023, instead taking the opportunity to simplify or optimize the compensation and benefits they already offer, according to Gallagher’s 2024 Organizational Well-Being Report .

(The Alliance’s members include more than 2,000 senior-level executives from over 400 large companies.)

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For WorldatWork Members Salary Budget Planning Guide , tool;Salary Budget Planning: Using Market Data to Formulate a Recommendation Report , tool;Compensation Structure Policies and Practices , research;The Potential Dangers of Aggregated Statistics , Journal of Total Rewards article; For Everyone 2025-2026 Salary Budget Survey Results , research;WorldatWork: 2026 Salary Increase Budgets Project U.S., Global Caution , Workspan Daily article;Salary Budget Planning Playbook: Data, Strategy and Insights for the Year Ahead , on-demand webinar;‘Year of Contention’: Employers Mull Tight Budgets, Pay Expectations , Workspan Daily article;Essentials of Compensation Management , course; American compensation experts have had a similar view of 2026 salary budget allocations, with five entities delivering their pay predictions within a range of 0.3 percentage points in reports released from July to early September.

This survey addresses these questions and offers data on compensation structure utilization and administration while exploring the impacts of market-disrupting forces which have arisen since our last look at compensation structures including hybrid and remote work, increases in competitive labor pricing, inflation and pay transparency regulation.

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Access a related Workspan Daily article on this subject: ;The ‘Salary Squeeze’: How the Workforce Is Weighing Compensation; “Inflation is a killer,” said Jason Adwin, a compensation and career strategies practice leader at HR and benefits consulting firm Segal.

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Compensation incentives along with perks/non-monetary incentives are an effective short-term strategy to assuage employees’ hesitance to return to the office.; Many businesses that had grand plans of their employees returning to the office at some point in 2021 were stifled by lingering COVID-19 concerns.

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