Identify your market worth

Whether you're due a promotion or pay rise in the new year, or if you're planning your next career move, compare your pay against the market with the Irelands's most comprehensive salary calculator.

Prepare for your next career move

The enhanced 2023 salary guide offers realiable insight into the jobs market, from research of over 100,000 roles posted throughout 2022.

We offer salary and market insights for permanent and contract positions in Ireland.

Our specialist areas of recruitment:
  • Accounting & Finance 
  • Banking & Financial Services

  • Risk & Compliance
  • Business Support  

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Discover the career aspirations of professionals in your sector or evaluate your employment offer to attract and retain talent.

Enhanced salary data

The report calculates year-on-year growth, average and range of each salary across SMEs and large enterprises for permanent & contract roles.

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FAQ's

  • Why is salary benchmarking important?

    Salary benchmarking is essential for comparing pay and compensation packages offered by an employer against the market and of those offered by competitors. Pay and compensation benchmarking can provide significant competitor advantage, through the retention and attraction of top talent and enhancing an organisations reputation. 

  • What is the salary benchmarking process?

    Salary benchmarking is the process of comparing salaries across the market for a particular job and providing a range and average for a particular role which can help guide an employer’s decision-making on pay or bonuses during appraisal period or when making a new hire. 

  • How to do salary benchmarking?

    In partnership with a data collection specialist, a benchmarking tool offers a fully comprehensive list of salary ranges and averages based on location, experience level and more. You can view the latest salary range and averages in the 2023 salary guide. 

  • What are the benefits of using a salary benchmarking guide?

    In a candidate led market, competition for in demand, niche skill sets is continuing to rise throughout 2022. Compare your salary offering and employee value propositions against the market to help you to attract new talent, and retain existing employees. Using a salary guide to benchmark your 2023 offerings can help keep you ahead of the competition and retain employees who will be vital for bridging future business skills gaps. 

  • Do I need to hire a contract, temp or permanent employee?

    We will partner with you to assist in the decision-making process. Sometimes we will suggest a combination of contract, temp and permanent solutions on a case-by-case basis.

    Contract hires are great for gap filling and ensuring business as usual specifically during seasonal periods when many permanent employees are on annual leave. Contract hires are also a great approach to 'try before you buy', to test their technical skills and team fit before offering them a permanent position. 

  • How do I know if my contract hire will be in or out of IR35?

    We are partnering with Qdos, a UK leader in insurance and advise for UK-based contractors, freelancers and consultants. Our combined expertise and collaborative approach to working with leading businesses across the UK, we provide pragmatic solutions and consultancy services to determine if the assignment will be in or out of IR35.

    Download our guide to prepare for IR35 changes

  • How do I evaluate employee pay & compensation during performance reviews?

    Salary and compensation reviews often take place during the annual and half-year employee performance reviews. In tangent with the employee performance scoring, you can use a salary benchmarking tool to inform the pay and compensation review process. The tool also gives good insight into market trends and in-demand skill sets. So, use performance reviews to see where the employee fits relative to the external jobs market and avoid losing in-demand talent through effective pay and compensation strategies.   

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"Rising inflation and cost-of-living has encouraged more movement in the market as professionals seek high salaries, as well as a continued exodus of young professionals out of the capital. 

Whilst hybrid work will be firmly here to stay in 2023, there has been a greater return to office than ever expected – with the balance of 2-3 days in the office to be firmly set in the coming year.

Big swings on salary growth – in particular for new starters – will settle somewhat in 2023, although the covid-related backlog of vacancies will continue to apply some pressure on salary negotiations. With that we are seeing more remote job roles to help increase the number of applications from further afield."

Suzanne Feeney, Country Manager, Ireland

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