Annual Human Resources Consulting Industry Compensation Survey
Are your top HR consultants leaving because of your company’s outdated compensation practices?
Your company’s success depends on retaining talented employees. Yet HR consulting practices like yours often have insufficient reliable, third-party data to help you compare your compensation packages to your competition and the broader market.
D.G. McDermott Associates conducts its Annual HR Consulting Industry Compensation Survey for organizations just like yours.

Customized Survey Report
To make it easier and faster for you to analyze your market position, the survey results are customized, with your company data compared to the other participants by position, metropolitan area and practice area.
This survey gives HR consulting managers the opportunity to compare their firm’s compensation plans to others in the HR Consulting industry. It provides timely data and insights that help you build compensation plans to reward and retain key employees while aligning with business strategy and performance.
The roles reported are:
Managerial
- Region Head
- Office Manager
- National Practice Leader
- Regional Practice Leader
- Office Practice Leader
Professional
- Senior Consultant III
- Senior Consultant II
- Senior Consultant I
- Consultant
- Associate Consultant II
- Associate Consultant I
Support
- Consulting Support Analyst II
- Consulting Support Analyst I
Practice Areas
In addition, incumbents are assigned to one of the practice areas below:
- Change Management/Organizational Effectiveness
- Communications/Strategic Communications
- Compensation/Performance Rewards
- Due Diligence
- Executive Compensation
- Global Human Resources
- Group Benefits and Healthcare
- HR Technology Analysis
- HR Technology Implementation
- Human Resources/Systems Outsourcing
- Investment Consulting
- Knowledge Management
- Legal Resource Center
- Multi-discipline
- Retirement
- Sales Compensation
- Survey/Information Center
- Talent Management
The survey also has a company practices section where we report on:
- General Firm Information
- Compensation Philosophy
- Budget Increases
- Short-Term and Long-Term Incentive Practices
Survey Schedule
- Distribute survey materials - March
- Submit data - June
- Distribute Survey Report - August
Learn more about the HR Consulting Industry Survey
Contact us at 732-842-8634 or dm@dgm.com to learn more about they survey.