Surveys and reports on remuneration and pay across firms can help you benchmark salaries and benefits in the financial sector for accounting professionals, directors and executives. This page lists key sources for UK and international salary surveys.
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Latest salary surveys
Austin Rose Public Practice Salary Survey 2024
The latest edition of the recruitment consultancy's survey specialising in the UK public practice market. The data covers audit, general practice, business services (statutory accounts), corporate recovery and restructuring, corporate finance, forensic accounting, corporate tax, personal tax, outsourcing, payroll and company secretarial roles.
Chartered Accountants Ireland Leinster Society salary survey 2024
Annual salary survey for the accountancy profession in Ireland. The Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants is the CAI's largest district society. Previous surveys going back to 2019 are also available.
Harris Hill Salary Survey 2024
Salary survey from charity recruitment specialists Harris Hill. Provides salary ranges for a range of roles within the UK charity and not-for-profit sectors including finance. Free registration required to download the survey.
Hays Salary Guide 2024
The latest UK salary guide from recruitment firm Hays. Includes hiring trends over the past 12 months and salary data for a wide range of roles including accountancy and finance. Requires free registration to download. An article summarising the 2024 data is available via the AccountancyCareers website - Accountancy and Finance Salary Trends 2024
IMA Salary Survey 2023
The latest salary survey from IMA comparing compensation and job satisfaction levels of management accountants globally. Regional survey results are also available
covering USA, Europe, UAE, KSA, the Middle East, Africa and India.
Michael Page Salary Guides 2025
The professional services recruitment agency Micahel Page produces UK salary guides for a number of areas including Audit, Tax and Treasury and Finance. Free registration required to download the guide.
Morgan McKinley Salary Guide 2024
The latest UK salary survey from global recruitment firm Morgan McKinley which includes data for accounting and finance roles. Free registration is required to download the report. A salary calculator is also available which contains salary data for specific roles across different industries and UK regions. Morgan McKinley also produces salary guides for Australia, Canada, Hong Kong SAR, Ireland, Singapore, Mainland China and Japan.
Reed's UK salary guides 2024
Annual UK salary guides covering a number of sectors including accountancy and finance. Free registration required to download the guide.
Robert Half UK Salary Guide 2024
Up-to-date starting salary information and hiring trends for the finance and accountancy sector, with UK region-specific data. Robert Half also publishes salary guides for a number of other countries
Robert Walters UK Salary Guide 2024
Salary survey covering a range of professional disciplines, including accounting and finance with data for different UK regions. Free registration required to download the guide. Robert Walters also produces salary guides for a number of other countries.
Wade Macdonald 2024 salary guide
Guide from recruitment company Wade Macdonald providing salary data for the Thames Valley and surrounding areas for a range of accountancy and finance roles.
Latest surveys on director and executive remuneration
Deloitte
- Directors' remuneration in FTSE 100 companies Your Guide – October 2024
- Directors' remuneration in FTSE 250 companies Your Guide – October 2024
- Directors' remuneration in FTSE SmallCap companies Your Guide – October 2024
- Directors' remuneration in FTSE 100 companies Your Guide – October 2023
- Directors' remuneration in FTSE 250 companies Your Guide – October 2023
- Directors' remuneration in FTSE SmallCap companies Your Guide – October 2023
- Directors' remuneration in FTSE AIM 100 companies Your Guide – January 2023
KPMG
KPMG publishes annual surveys which include data on salary, bonuses, share plans and long-term incentives as well as a review of updated regulatory requirements and renewed remuneration guidelines.
- KPMG Executive remuneration in AIM listed companies 2023
- KPMG Guide to Directors' Remuneration 2023
- KPMG Guide to Directors' Remuneration 2022
- KPMG Executive remuneration in FTSE SmallCap companies 2022
- KPMG's Guide to Executive Remuneration 2021
- KPMG's Guide to Executive Remuneration 2020
- KPMG Directors' remuneration in FTSE small cap companies 2020
- KPMG's Guide to Executive Remuneration 2019
- KPMG's Guide to Executive Remuneration 2018
- KPMG's Guide to Executive Remuneration 2017
- KPMG's Guide to Executive Remuneration 2016
- KPMG’s Guide to Executive Remuneration 2015
- KPMG’s Guide to Executive Remuneration 2014
- KPMG’s Guide to Executive Remuneration 2013
Further surveys
The Remuneration Committee section of the ICAEW site contains further surveys on director and executive remuneration including non-executive directors fees.
Older surveys
This section provides links to older surveys and tools for the comparison of salary data over time.
Accountancy Age salary surveys
Survey previously carried out by Accountancy Age providing data on average salary and benefits for accountants in the UK. Includes information on salary by region, level, gender and whether working in business or practice. Surveys include:
Accountancy Age also published a bi-annual salary and benefits survey for the accountancy profession for a number of years. Archived editions of the survey are available for 2003, 2005, Spring 2006 and Autumn 2006.
AICPA and CIMA salary insights 2019
Tool enabling users to compare their salary to the averages of chartered global management accountants and students. Figures are based upon respondents who took part in the 2019 AICPA Salary survey.
Financial Director Salary Surveys
Financial Director magazine previously conducted an annual survey of financial directors' pay, bonuses and benefits, as well as correlating results to demographic data such as age and gender. These include:
- 2016 FD salary survey
Full survey results - 2014 FD salary survey
Summary plus special report and full survey table -
2013 FD salary survey
Article discussing the survey results - 2009 FD salary survey
Summary of the survey results -
2006 FD salary survey
Summary of the survey results -
2004 FD salary survey
Full survey results - 2003 FD salary survey
Summary of the survey results - 2002 FD salary survey
Article discussing the survey results - 2001 FD salary survey
Article discussing the survey results
Hudson Salary guides
Surveys previously produced by global recruitment firm Hudson for the UK are available for 2013,
2014,
2016 and
2017 through the Internet Archive.
Data and benchmarking services
Economic Research Institute
Commercial providers of salary data through remuneration software and reports which cover the UK and some European countries. Product descriptions and free sample reports are available on the website.
IDR Pay Benchmarker
Subscription-based online tool from Incomes Data Research providing data on UK salary levels and pay awards for a wide range of jobs.
Salary Search
Specialist salary service from Croner, pitched as the UK's most comprehensive online salary database. This site allows you to find the pay and benefits of a wide range of jobs in the Reward pay database, with charges varying depending on the degree of detail required. Sample data is provided along with the option to try out the service on test data.
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