Survey Data Reports

2025 Compensation & Culture Report

In November 2024, we surveyed over 1,800 US and UK employees to get their perspective on compensation, benefits, pay equity and transparency, and more. Our Compensation and Culture Report takes a close look at the survey results.

2024 State of Pay Equity Report

We surveyed 874 salary and compensation decision-makers across the US and UK on their compensation practices, policies, and approaches to pay equity, with breakouts by industry. The results show that while pay equity is seen as important for recruitment, retention, and compliance, company preparedness varies widely.

Leveling the Paying Field

A Look at the Gender Pay Gap and Other Compensation Trends

Our report surveyed 2,000 active employees in the US and the UK to get a sense of their experiences and perspectives on the gender pay gap in their respective markets, as well as total compensation, and pay transparency. We dissect the data to see how answers varied by both genders and generations.

Pay Equity & Transparency Resources

Preparing for the EU Pay Transparency Directive: A Checklist for your Organization

When it comes to getting the EU Pay Transparency Directive, it’s important to be proactive and prepare in advance. Our checklist helps you identify the broad goals and specific actions you need to get your organization ready.

A Guide to the EU Pay Transparency Directive

The new EU Pay Transparency Directive was adopted by the European Parliament in March of 2023 and member states are expected to be in compliance by June of 2026. The Directive is designed to close the gender pay gap among EU workers and will require major changes in the way companies structure, communicate, and report on pay. We created this concise eGuide to help organizations understand and prepare for the Directive.

Local requirements - Pay equity analyses and reporting

PayAnalytics by beqom makes complying with local requirements and regulations easier than ever before, allowing organizations to conduct pay equity analyses to identify any pay disparities. Check out this list of articles on some local requirements in the US, Canada, Europe, and elsewhere, that many of our customers need to fulfill.

The Pay Equity Playbook

A Strategic Approach to HR

What do employees think about efforts to improve the gender pay gap? How much do pay transparency and equality efforts really affect employee loyalty and retention? What employer actions are valued most by workers? Find the answers to these and other questions to learn how best to approach pay equity in your organization.

Paving the Way to Equal Pay

Mastering job classification for fair compensation structures

Job classification is the way an organization defines what employee qualities or qualifications it considers important for each job. It is also a key component of equal pay analysis, which is a major early step in the pay equity journey. In this guide, we present the three main job classification approaches, as well as their upsides, downsides, and nuances.

Compensation Thought Leadership

How Randstad Attracts Talent in a Hyper Competitive Labor Market

As a global leader in staffing and HR solutions, Randstad competes for talent in an increasingly competitive and dynamic labor market, where attracting top-tier candidates requires more than a “one-size-fits-all” compensation model. Growth, diversification and the rising complexity of their businesses demanded more flexibility, creativity, and transparency in their compensation and benefits strategy. Find out how they met the challenge.

Rewarding the Moments that Matter

How to Build a High-Performance Culture

Times have changed, and old ways of managing performance and rewards can be obstacles that stand in the way of top performance. Technology that is based on a new employee-centric model, using innovative reward strategies, can help you move your business to the next level. This thought leadership eguide can help you to remove the roadblocks to a high-performance culture.

Top webinars

Balancing Act with Tamsin Sridhara and Florian Frank from WTW

As the EU Pay Transparency Directive comes into effect, global organizations face the challenge of implementing a cohesive pay transparency framework that respects local nuances while adhering to global standards. This webinar explores the debate on whether a global approach or a localized strategy should prevail, with research and best practices.

Pay Transparency: A Key to your Total Rewards Strategy with John Radford

Your company’s Total Rewards Strategy is more complicated than ever before. If you’ve been wondering how to make pay transparency a reality for your organization, watch this informative interview with John Radford, the founder and a driving force behind the Radford Global Compensation database over the past 47 years.

A Data driven Approach to Pay Equity with Dr. Margrét Bjarnadóttir

This webinar focuses on the pay equity basics: how to run a structured pay equity analysis, how to understand the results, and how to close pay gaps in an informed, sustainable way. Great food for thought!

Why beqom?

See all that comp can become.

Learn why you should look at beqom, a purpose-built compensation platform that intuitively gives employers the power to realize comp’s full potential from end to end, every day. We help the world's leading enterprises leverage their talent through complete, equitable, and transparent performance and rewards.