{ "name": "Reviewvo Merit Increase and Pay Review Benchmark", "title": "Merit Increase and Pay Review Benchmark", "url": "https://reviewvo.com/datasets/merit-increase-and-pay-review-benchmark/", "csv": "https://reviewvo.com/datasets/merit-increase-and-pay-review-benchmark.csv", "markdown": "https://reviewvo.com/datasets/merit-increase-and-pay-review-benchmark/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-23", "license": "https://reviewvo.com/terms", "headline": "The median published figure in the Merit Increase and Pay Review Benchmark is 3.35 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 3.20 to 3.50 percent), read 12 October 2026.", "quotes": [ "The median published figure in the Merit Increase and Pay Review Benchmark is 3.35 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 3.20 to 3.50 percent), read 12 October 2026.", "2 of the 7 named sources read in full publish a figure; 5 publish none, read 12 October 2026.", "Merit Increase and Pay Review Benchmark, jurisdiction UK: median 3.50 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.", "The median is up 0.15 percent since 26 September 2026 (was 3.20 percent across 1)." ], "citation": "\"Reviewvo Merit Increase and Pay Review Benchmark\", updated 2026-10-23, https://reviewvo.com/datasets/merit-increase-and-pay-review-benchmark/.", "changed_since": { "since": "2026-09-26", "previous_median": 3.2, "delta": 0.15, "direction": "up", "sentence": "The median is up 0.15 percent since 26 September 2026 (was 3.20 percent across 1)." }, "national": { "unit": "%", "n": 2, "median": 3.35, "min": 3.2, "max": 3.5, "p25": null, "p75": null, "mean": 3.35, "units": { "%": 2 }, "published_sources": 2, "named_sources": 8, "read_sources": 7, "not_published": 5, "published_share": 0.286 }, "by_axis": { "jurisdiction": { "UK": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 3.5, "min": 3.5, "max": 3.5, "p25": 3.5, "p75": 3.5, "mean": 3.5 } } } }, "rows": [ { "source": "BLS Employment Cost Index news release", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/eci.nr0.htm", "figure": "3.2 percent", "value": 3.2, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "quote": "Wages and salaries increased 3.2 percent and benefit costs increased 3.8 percent over the year.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "b2a181892618f6201f421ead3d9910b2feb5eb262d9bb9285dcc8ef2061b919a" }, { "source": "Office for National Statistics", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours", "figure": "3.5%", "value": 3.5, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "jurisdiction": "UK" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-10", "quote": "Annual growth in employees' average earnings was 3.5% for regular earnings (excluding bonuses) and 3.9% for total earnings (including bonuses).", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "a848c6b9c5cbf8cbdf147ec21c3c7509015556a3309a854dae835d5f6c2094db" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "BLS Employment Cost Index", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/eci/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Statistics Canada, average weekly earnings table 14-10-0064-01", "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410006401", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Fair Work Ombudsman newsroom (the wage-review and penalty releases)", "url": "https://www.fairwork.gov.au/newsroom/media-releases", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-11", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "BLS National Compensation Survey, employee benefits", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Fair Work Ombudsman, the annual wage review", "url": "https://www.fairwork.gov.au/about-us/workplace-laws/annual-wage-review", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/eci/", "label": "BLS Employment Cost Index", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/eci.nr0.htm", "label": "BLS Employment Cost Index news release", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/averageweeklyearningsingreatbritain/latest", "label": "Office for National Statistics", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410006401", "label": "Statistics Canada, average weekly earnings table 14-10-0064-01", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.fairwork.gov.au/newsroom/media-releases", "label": "Fair Work Ombudsman newsroom (the wage-review and penalty releases)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/", "label": "BLS National Compensation Survey, employee benefits", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.fairwork.gov.au/about-us/workplace-laws/annual-wage-review", "label": "Fair Work Ombudsman, the annual wage review", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours", "label": "Office for National Statistics", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "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; 1 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; 21 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 authority's own wage-growth figure per jurisdiction and period (ECI wages and salaries, average weekly earnings, the annual wage review decision, the public-sector pay remit) set beside the merit matrix a buyer actually needs: what a 'meets expectations' and an 'exceeds' increase is once the market figure is the pool; changed-since on each release, which is the news every review season", "embed": "

3.35 percent

median published figure, Merit Increase and Pay Review Benchmark, across 2 sources, read 12 October 2026

Source: Reviewvo Merit Increase and Pay Review Benchmark
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