Pharma Compensation Plans Management and Market Data

From lab technicians and chemical engineers to sales reps and back-office support roles, those working in the pharma industry cover a wide range of needed functions. Payscale delivers the salary data and software solutions that helps leading organizations build modern compensation programs to attract and retain talent.

Top Challenges for the Pharmaceutical Industry

Hiring to support rapid growth

During the pandemic and recovering post-pandemic economy, the pharma industry has seen extensive growth. Compelling salary offers and total rewards packages are essential to attract talent in a competitive job market.

Planning for pay increases

In a hot job market, you have to think about pay equity. The talent you are most anxious to keep is also the talent you are most likely to lose if your employees' pay doesn't keep pace with their peers.

Workplace flexibility

Following the pandemic, employees want to be able to work from home at least some of the time. Businesses are now having to consider location-based pay strategies that can accommodate remote work.

Pay communications

With all the challenges in the current job market, it is imperative for employees to understand pay policies and for managers to be able to discuss why compensation is fair.

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Salary data in the pharmaceutical industry available from Payscale right now

49,640
Incumbents - Peer
45
Participants - Peer
25%
Participant growth (2021) - Peer
59%
Incumbent growth (2021) - Peer
28,500
Profiles - Employee Reported

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Peer is intuitive, easier, and more enjoyable to use than annual surveys, plus there is relevant, real-time data and no need to wait months and months. With the market changes of late, having data that changes with the agility of Peer is required. Peer’s real-time data is the only way to be credible with my leadership team. You simply cannot use quarterly or yearly data in times like these where markets are being directly influenced by the social and economic impacts of 2020 – Peer is the way to go now and in the future.
by Reet Ari, Senior Director, Talent Acquisition, Privia Health
How Payscale customers are leveraging the power of pay
Payfactors is the vendor that has the most accurate data and has given us much more confidence in where we stand in the market. Using Peer by Payfactors is the first time our leadership team hasn’t questioned the data Compensation and HR has presented. I’d recommend Payfactors to anyone in the hospitality industry in a heartbeat. We go to a HR conference each year and most of the other companies we meet with also recommended this as their go to platform.
by Amy Gundaker, Human Resources Specialist, Island Hospitality Management
How Payscale customers are leveraging the power of pay
"After surveying team members on their preferences, we opted to transition to a remote-first workforce and were able to model costs and conduct analysis on pay strategies to develop a globally-centered approach to compensation with geographic differentials that would be fair and equitable for team members. Payscale has been a phenomenal partner during this process and have also provided services to help us deliver asynchronous manager training to communicate our compensation strategy and rationale to team members as part of a pay transparency initiative.”
by Stacey Sutela, Director, Global Compensation & HR operations,  Vistaprint

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Track annual and quarterly wage growth

The Payscale Index is publicly available data that tracks and compares wage growth by city, industry, company size, and job category. The Payscale Index draws from Payscale's Employee Reported data which includes a salary data cut specific to the finance and insurance industry.

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Compensation Best Practices Report

Payscale’s annual Compensation Best Practices Report (CBPR) is the largest survey dedicated to compensation, gathering information from thousands of respondents with data cuts by industry, performance, and organizational size.

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End of Year Report on the Hottest Jobs of 2021

Payscale analyzes which positions job seekers were most eager to research salaries for in the 2021 calendar year and ranked the top ten with additional data and insights on the fastest growing jobs by wages and guidance around compensation planning.

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Connect Event insights: Pharma and Life Sciences Whitepaper

Payscale hosted a Connect Event to hear from and better understand the comp challenges impacting pharma and life sciences organizations. We then validated those challenges with research data and provided resources for potential solutions in this insights document.

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