1.For context, what do you expect your pay review budget for 2026, as a percentage, to be?
Excluding those individuals affected by the National Living Wage

2.Looking ahead, based on current thoughts and discussions, what do you estimate your 2027 pay award budget to be, as a percentage?
* Understanding this may be subject to change. Excluding those individuals affected by the National Living Wage.

3.Based on current economic forecasts, inflation is expected to remain at 3-4% between Autumn 2026 and Spring 2027 (commonly when most employers are setting their pay budgets). If inflation were to fall closer to 2-3%, please indicate what impact this may have on your estimate.

No change

Reduce by up to 0.5%

Reduce by up to 1.0%

Reduce by up to 1.5%

Reduce by up to 2.0%

Other (please give details)

4.What form do you expect your 2027 pay review to take?

An across the board increase

Individually determined increases

A combination of across the board and individual

Across the board for some groups and individually determined for others

Other (please give details)

5.What do you expect your 2027 pay actions to do and be driven by?
Please tick all that apply

Target core roles

Target scarce roles

Target high performing roles

Target high performing people

Target high performing business areas

Be driven by internal relativities

Be driven by external relativities

Be driven by EU Pay Transparency Directive

Other (please give details)

6.In terms of business activity, compared to the last 12 months, in the next 12 months we expect:

Will increase

Will stay the same

Will decrease

Too early to tell

Our order book

Will increase

Will stay the same

Will decrease

Too early to tell

Our business revenue

Will increase

Will stay the same

Will decrease

Too early to tell

Our business profitability

Will increase

Will stay the same

Will decrease

Too early to tell

7.Please provide your details below so we can send you a free copy of the survey analysis:

Name

Organisation

Email

8.We are running a free follow-up pay discussion session, taking place as an online/virtual session on Wednesday, 15th July, 10:00-11:00am. If you would be interested in attending this session, please indicate below and a member of the Paydata team will be in touch.

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I will sit this one out

My colleague will attend (please provide email below)