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Top Management and Executive Compensation Survey

United StatesEdition: 2026Quote

The Top Management and Executive Compensation Survey provides market-based pay data for 57 executive benchmark jobs. Input for the survey is received from both public and private organizations located all over the United States.

Incumbent-based, market-based pay data; submissions screened and normalized to common date — Annual; published in August. 2025 edition surveyed 2,425 organizations across 500+ U.S. cities; reports four revenue groups (Small <$25M, Medium $25-250M, Large $250M-1B, Enterprise >$1B)

Base salaryShort-term incentivesBenefits

Survey cycle

Annual

Plan your purchase against this publisher’s schedule.

  1. 1Participation opens
    October

    When employers can submit data

  2. 2Effective date
    March 31

    Data is reported “as of” this date

  3. 3Results published
    July

    When subscribers receive the dataset

Data collection runs October through March; effective date is March 31; published in July of the same survey year.