Trends report
Salary trends for incumbent employees: June 2026
Pay budgets remain under pressure as employers balance higher labour costs, statutory wage increases and ongoing retention challenges.
This report analyses salary movements for more than 640,000 employees who remained in the same role over a 12-month period, providing a robust benchmark for how incumbent pay has changed across job levels, sectors, functions and organisation sizes.
Are your salary review outcomes aligned with market salary movements, or are you relying on assumptions?
In this trends report, based on Brightmine Compensation Planning data, you’ll explore changes in employee pay across:
- Lower quartile, median, upper quartile and average salary increases
- Job level
- Industry
- Job function
- Organisation size (measured by turnover)
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