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Policies Practices Survey Overview
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Empsight Compensation Practices Survey
Policies Practices and Merit
Benchmark merit budgets, salary structures, incentives, pay practices and emerging compensation priorities.
Empsight's Policies, Practices & Merit Survey provides employers with a comprehensive view of how organizations are managing compensation programs and responding to changing workforce priorities.
The survey goes beyond market pay levels to examine how employers design salary structures, establish merit and total increase budgets, administer incentive programs, address pay transparency and equity, manage turnover, use AI within HR, develop job architecture frameworks and respond to emerging compensation challenges.
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Participate and receive the results free
Qualified organizations that participate in the Policies, Practices & Merit Survey receive the survey results at no cost. Register for a future survey cycle and Empsight will contact you when participation opens.
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2026 Results
514 participating organizations
The 2026 Policies, Practices & Merit Report contains approximately 130 pages of detailed compensation and workforce practices findings.
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Future Participation
Participate next year and receive the results free
Organizations can purchase the 2026 results now and register for the next survey cycle. Qualified organizations that participate in the next survey receive those results at no charge.
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What the Survey Covers
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Salary Structures & Merit Budgets
Compensation philosophy, salary structure design and adjustments, merit and total increase budgets, and future salary budget projections.
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Incentive & Reward Practices
Short-term incentives, long-term incentives, employee stock plans, sign-on bonuses and retention bonuses.
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Pay Transparency & Pay Equity
Employer approaches to pay transparency, pay equity reviews, communication practices and compensation governance.
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Job Architecture & Skills
Job architecture practices, career frameworks, skills-based workforce practices and evolving approaches to workforce design.
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AI & Emerging Practices
AI roles, use of AI within HR and compensation, and other emerging practices affecting rewards and workforce strategy.
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Workforce Trends & Priorities
Employee turnover, workforce pressures and the compensation issues organizations identify as their most important priorities.
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Purchase the 2026 results or participate in the next survey for free.
The complete 2026 Policies, Practices & Merit results are available for purchase. Organizations can also register for a future survey cycle and receive the corresponding results at no cost when they participate.
Register to Participate
Purchase 2026 Results
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