# Pay for performance: Incentive Pay Benchmark

> The median published figure in the Incentive Pay Benchmark is 3.60 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 3.40 to 3.80 percent), read 12 October 2026.

Orgplanly · https://orgplanly.com/datasets/incentive-pay-benchmark/ · computed 2026-10-19

**Median published figure:** 3.6 % (range 3.4 to 3.8 %; 2 sources with a figure; 2 of 7 sources read publish one).

2 of the 7 named sources read in full publish a figure; 5 publish none, read 12 October 2026.

The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 3.60 percent across 2).

## By country

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| country GB | 3.8 % | 3.8 to 3.8 % | 1 |
| country CA | 3.4 % | 3.4 to 3.4 % | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [ONS: Average weekly earnings in Great Britain (bulletin)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/averageweeklyearningsingreatbritain/april2026) | 3.8 % | GB | 2026-10-12 |
| [Statistics Canada: payroll employment, earnings and hours (The Daily)](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260730/dq260730a-eng.htm) | 3.4 % | CA | 2026-10-12 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (2)

- [ONS: Average weekly earnings in Great Britain (bulletin)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/averageweeklyearningsingreatbritain/april2026), read 2026-10-12: "Annual growth in total earnings (including bonuses) was 3.8% in December 2025 to February 2026."
- [Statistics Canada: payroll employment, earnings and hours (The Daily)](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260730/dq260730a-eng.htm), read 2026-10-12: "Year over year, average weekly earnings were up 3.4% in May, following an increase of 3.7% in April."

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [ONS: Earnings and working hours (topic page)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours), read 2026-10-10: every candidate on the page was refused
- [ABS: Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia (latest release)](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/employee-earnings-and-hours-australia/latest-release), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [ABS: guide to understanding employee earnings and hours statistics](https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/guide-understanding-employee-earnings-and-hours-statistics), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [US BLS: Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (news release)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.htm), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [US BLS: ECEC home](https://www.bls.gov/ecec/), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 7 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 5 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 65 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the share of total employer compensation cost that is incentive or supplemental pay, per country, per industry and per occupation, from each national statistical agency's own release, beside the bonus component of earnings growth; the series across releases is the figure (how the bonus share moves with the cycle), and the cross-country comparison is the second; every number is quoted with its reference period and its table number

## Sources

- [ONS: Average weekly earnings in Great Britain (bulletin)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/averageweeklyearningsingreatbritain/april2026) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS: Earnings and working hours (topic page)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ABS: Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia (latest release)](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/employee-earnings-and-hours-australia/latest-release) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ABS: guide to understanding employee earnings and hours statistics](https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/guide-understanding-employee-earnings-and-hours-statistics) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Statistics Canada: payroll employment, earnings and hours (The Daily)](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260730/dq260730a-eng.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US BLS: Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (news release)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US BLS: ECEC home](https://www.bls.gov/ecec/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The median published figure in the Incentive Pay Benchmark is 3.60 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 3.40 to 3.80 percent), read 12 October 2026.
- 2 of the 7 named sources read in full publish a figure; 5 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
- Incentive Pay Benchmark, country GB: median 3.80 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Incentive Pay Benchmark, country CA: median 3.40 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 3.60 percent across 2).

Cite as: "Orgplanly Incentive Pay Benchmark", updated 2026-10-19, https://orgplanly.com/datasets/incentive-pay-benchmark/.

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