Aon Radford McLagan Compensation Database vs Culpepper Compensation Surveys

Aon Radford McLagan Compensation Database provides market-pay benchmarks for compensation decisions across roles, regions, industries, and markets. It is aimed at HR, total rewards, and compensation leaders. Coverage includes more than 33 million employees and over 100,000 jobs across 17 major industries, with data spanning more than 115 countries in North America, Latin America, EMEA, and APAC. Participation includes 24/7 access to Aon's Human Capital Analytics platform. Organizations can submit data manually with curated templates and support from a dedicated client manager, or use direct integration with leading HRIS systems; the systems are not named. AI tools include Quick Benchmark, Market Query, and Job Matching agents. Reporting supports market-trend exploration, job comparison, custom peer groups, and tailored reports. Aon says its job architecture and matching methodology supports pay equity and transparency. Quarterly data refreshes, API access, and advanced reporting are listed. Companion studies cover salary increases and turnover, incentive plan design, early-career talent, employee engagement, sales compensation, and severance policies. Pricing is available on request and varies by benchmarking needs.

Culpepper Compensation Surveys provides web-based global market data for organizations benchmarking jobs and making compensation decisions. Coverage is grouped by function, including executive, engineering, healthcare, life sciences, operations, professional services, sales and technology. Outputs include base salaries, pay ranges, allowances, short- and long-term incentives, hourly pay and shift differentials. Customizable reports offer data cuts and filters, statistical measures, and comparisons of an organization's compensation data with market figures. Culpepper reports coverage across more than 70 countries and global regions, including location-specific data cuts and geographic pay zones. The company says it gathers and updates data year-round and publishes new datasets at the beginning of each month. Subscribers must provide current compensation data for employees in jobs and locations covered by their license. Once participation requirements are met and data is imported, online reports can identify jobs above or below market rates. The company says survey data is published in anonymized, aggregate form and customized reports with company or employee data are restricted to authorized licensed users. Pricing is on request; standard licenses include essential support, while premium licenses include professional survey services.