According to a survey developed and recently published by Payscale, a compensation and benefits software company, it was revealed that approximately only 32% of employers in the United States plan to make salary increases in the next year and this is because many companies are abandoning the trend of “peanut butter” style incentives and are instead focusing on rank or performance.
Unlike this year, when more than 40% of companies indicated that compensation would be equitable without distinction between workers, the forecast for 2027 is that salary increases will no longer be uniform, which could generate discontent among employees.
In this regard, Ruth Thomas, principal compensation strategist at Payscale commented that, "we are seeing that organizations realize that they need to implement compensation strategically. They need to think about business transformation, and part of driving it is allocating compensation budgets differently."
The survey analysis was based on the responses of more than 1,300 human resources executives, who also indicated that the increase in the base salary could be on average 3.5%, seeking to keep the income of their workers above inflation, which for the month of July was also above 3%.
However, there are sectors such as aerospace and defense, legal and business services, as well as the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries where the average increases for next year would be between 4% and 4.5%.
