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The Sherman Antitrust Act clearly spells out what compensation professionals and/or employers are allowed to do when it comes to sharing data involved in salary and budget planning.

Other key findings: Healthcare services are projecting 2024 budgets that lag other industries, with merit budgets of 3.1% and total increase budgets of 3.4%, as the industry continues to recover from the financial impact of the pandemic.

In addition to the global pandemic impact on salary budgets, the detailed survey covers base salary increases, merit budgets, salary structure adjustments, promotional increases, variable pay, lump sum awards, compensation philosophy and more.

;WorldatWork: 3.6% mean salary increase budgets for 2026; 3.7% actual mean increase budgets in 2025.; ;WTW: 3.5% average salary increase budgets for 2026; 3.5% actual budgets in 2025.; ;Gallagher: 3.2% to 3.3% average salary increase budgets (job-classification dependent) for 2026; 3.8% to 4.0% actual budgets in 2026.; ;Payscale: 3.5% average salary increase budgets for 2026; 3.6% actual budgets in 2025.; Same Percentage, New Strategies While The Conference Board’s 2026 forecast and 2025 actual outlay figures signify a somewhat status-quo environment for total rewards professionals, the underlying story points to some strategy shifts.

“If the period between budget planning and the announcement of annual pay decisions is limited, I recommend running the analysis in advance of budget planning.”

House of Representatives narrowly passed a budget resolution that includes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts over the next decade.

U.S. employers forecast raising their merit increase budgets by 3.5% and total salary increase budgets by 3.8% on average for 2024, according to Mercer's U.S.

Salary Budget Survey 2024-2025: Participation Closes May 15 Mercer’s latest survey findings fell below WorldatWork’s 2023-24 Salary Budget Survey of 2,146 participating U.S. organizations, which in July 2023 projected 4.1% pay increase budgets in 2024.

Bonuses for investment bankers advising companies on mergers and acquisitions are expected to drop 15% to 25% this year from 2022, according to a study by Johnson Associates .

With that, relocation volume and budgets were actually up in 2024, and 63% of surveyed employers reported their 2025 relocation budgets are higher year over year.