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Special Update: 2008-09 Salary Budget Survey
Released Jan. 29, 2009

• High-level data
• Press Releases: Feb. 3 , 2009
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WorldatWork 2008-09 Salary Budget Survey
Released Aug. 1, 2008

• Total Rewards Poll: Is your company changing its projected 2009 salary increase budget?
• workspan: Why the Slumping Economy Isn't a Factor ...Yet
  
• Top-Level Data
  
• Roundtable Discussion: What Does the Data Mean? (mp3)
  
• Participant List
• Questionnaire: U.S. | Canada
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Previous WorldatWork Salary Budget Surveys

Executive Resources Limited
Released Feb. 2009

• Global Merit & Inflation Salary Increase Projections Survey (Member discount)

• Newsline: Americans to See Lowest Pay Raises in 32 Years
• Newsline: Canadian Salary Increases Down Due to Market Conditions
• Newsline: Rocky Economy Causing Some Companies to Reduce Raises and Bonuses
• Newsline: U.S. Raises Flat, Variable Pay Down in 2009, Study Finds, But it Could be Worse, Say Experts

Watson Wyatt Worldwide

• More Companies Make Layoffs and Freeze Hiring
• Newsline: U.S. Companies Cutting Back on Annual Bonuses and Long-Term Incentives for Executives
• Newsline:Employers Make Hiring, Salary, Benefits Changes Thanks to Economic Crisis
• Preliminary Findings from the Global Strategic Rewards Survey

The Conference Board

• Salary Increase Budgets Holding Steady for 2008
• Newsline: Salary Increase Budgets Below 4% for 2008 and 2009

Mercer

• Deep workforce and benefit cuts show signs of moderating in the last half of 2009 - Mercer global survey shows
• Newsline: Companies Freeze Salaries for Senior Staff, Invest in Junior Staff
• Newsline: Nearly Three-Quarters of Canadian Employers Do Not Plan to Freeze Salaries
• Newsline: Number of Companies Freezing Salaries May Continue to Rise
  
• Newsline: Rocky Economy Causing Some Companies to Reduce Raises and Bonuses
• 2008/2009 US Compensation Planning Survey
• Newsline: Base Pay Expected to Rise More Slowly in 2009 than 2008, Even Among High-Performing Industries

Business & Legal Reports Inc. (BLR)

• Newsline: Survey Shows Merit Pay Increases Down Nearly 25% for 2009
• BLR Pay Budget Survey Report
• Newsline: Despite the Weak Economy and Rising Costs, 2009 Salary Increases Should Hold Steady

Economic Research Institute (ERI)

• 2009 Salary Increase Report
• Newsline: 2009 U.S. Salary Budget Increases of 4% Planned

Hay Group

• Newsline: Half of Organizations Worldwide Adjusting Staffing Levels, Salaries

Culpepper

• 2009 Salary Increase Budgets Change Significantly
• Salary Range Structure Practices and Increase Budgets for 2008 and 2009
• Salary Increase Budgets for 2008 and 2009