You’ve built a total rewards strategy to help you find and keep top talent—but is it keeping pace with your peers, and the wider market?
Korn Ferry’s Global Total Rewards Pulse Survey gathers insights from organizations worldwide, offering the latest data on Total Rewards programs, benefits, and salary benchmarking.
If you design, create, and update total rewards packages for your organization, this is an essential read.
Our Latest Global Total Rewards Pulse Survey—the Results Are In
The results of our latest survey on the impact of AI, conducted in February 2025, are now available!
How is Artificial Intelligence (AI) transforming Total Rewards programs? And what can organizations expect for salary increases in 2025? Our latest Global Pulse Survey gathered insights from more than 5,700 HR and Total Rewards leaders across 130+ countries. Here’s what we found:
AI's Impact on Total Rewards
- Early Stages: 76% of organizations are in the early stages of AI adoption, with sectors like Oil & Gas, Retail, and Healthcare leading.
- Focus Areas: Early AI adoption focuses on automation and data-driven decision-making, with future emphasis on predictive analytics, employee experience, and reward personalization.
- Challenges: Key challenges include data privacy and security, system integration, and required cost investments.
- Disruptions: AI will disrupt Total Rewards programs, with workforce reskilling being a significant impact.
Business Outlook
- Growth Expectations: 69% of organizations expect moderate-to-rapid growth in 2025.
- Stable Employment: 78% anticipate 2025 headcounts to be within +/-5% of 2024 levels, with a tendency towards increasing staff.
Answering This Year’s Big Questions Around AI in Total Rewards
As well as providing insights into the 2025 salary forecasts, our new survey will also address key topics such as:
- Current and Future Use of AI in Total Rewards: How organizations are currently using AI to enhance their Total Rewards programs and their expectations for leveraging AI in the near future.
- Challenges and Impacts: The challenges of implementing AI in Total Rewards and the resulting impacts on these programs.
- Potential Disruptions: The potential disruptions AI could bring, especially in areas such as compensation benchmarking, fairness and consistency within organizations, and pay-for-performance linkages and communications.
Do you want to discover the latest total rewards strategy insights to give your company a competitive edge with talent, improve retention, and increase ROI?
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