While attraction and retention challenges continue to plague organizations, fewer respondents expect those difficulties to be at the same level next year: 94 percent of respondents are experiencing difficulties attracting talent this year, but only 40 percent expect difficulty in 2023.

labor market overall remained tight for many employers and concern about hiring and retaining talent is a key driver of higher pay budgets, cited by 73 percent of respondents as their top factor in the WTW survey. Two consecutive quarters of slower economic activity is the technical definition of a recession.Īlthough some economic sectors, such as technology, have seen lower labor demand and even workforce reductions this year, as of mid-2022 the U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates to fight inflation. gross domestic product contracted by 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2022 and by 0.9 percent in the second quarter, as the U.S.

Among those respondents, the vast majority (92 percent) have or will adjust salaries twice per year. More than one-third (36 percent) have already increased or plan to increase how often they raise salaries. Some companies are also making more-frequent salary increase adjustments.

Less than half of companies (45 percent) are sticking with the pay budgets they set at the start of the year.

employers (64 percent) have budgeted for higher employee pay raises last year, while two-fifths (41 percent) have increased their budgets since original projections were made earlier this year. In the U.S., 1,430 organizations responded. The survey was conducted in April and May 2022. These are the largest increases since 2008 but significantly lower than the inflation rate, which was Salary Budget Planning Report found that companies are budgeting an overall average increase of 4.1 percent for 2023, compared with the average actual 4 percent increase in 2022.

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