Parent Board and Corporate Posts

At a glance

• 7 organisational types
• 7 levels of post
• Over 10,000 individual positions

Data sources

• Over 550 survey participants
• 7 levels of post
• More than 1,600 annual reports

Pay components

• Base salary
• Last bonus paid
• Expected increases
• Annual incentive data
• Eligibility for incentives
• Pension plans
• Car allowances
• Holidays
• Long-term ill-health
• Flexible benefits

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Parent Board and Corporate Posts is published twice a year, in April and September. It brings together information from Monks surveys and data from company annual reports in order to provide base salary and total earnings guidelines and trends for main board and management roles in corporate headquarters.

Analysis of pay data is provided for seven levels of post:

For each of the seven job levels, base salary and total earnings are analysed by five revenue bands, by broad industry classification, scope factor, international involvement and industry sector.

The scope factor takes into account that some jobs are bigger and some smaller than the norm. In this section of the report all findings are presented by inter-quartile analysis.

Further analyses are based on regression analysis by ten levels of revenues and market capitalisation. The findings are presented in both tabular and graphical form by:

The report also gives a summary of annual and long-term incentive practice in corporate headquarters. Market practice with regards to pensions and other benefits is also summarised in the publication.