Salaries: Pensions Industry (Worldwide) – Q2 2023
Latest Salary Surveys: Pensions Industry
In the list below, you will find surveys of salaries from a range of roles across the pensions industry, including directors and CIOs.
Salaries for pensions managers and other professional pensions industry roles are often hard to find, but the Savvy Investor Content Team has been scouring the web to bring you this list of salary surveys for pensions manager jobs around the world. If you become aware of any other surveys of salaries in pensions-related careers, please do let us know. We aim to update this list of salaries for pensions industry jobs on a quarterly basis.

UK
UK Pensions, Financial Planning, and Compliance Salary Guide (Recruit UK, 2022)
For compliance reasons, this paper is only accessible in the United Kingdom
Are you confident enough that you’re being remunerated fairly, based on your location? Are you a firm looking to develop your talent strategy over 2022? This finance salary guide will give you the benchmark you need.
UK Banking & Asset Management Salary Survey 2021 (Page Executive)
Page Executive have conducted an extensive salary and bonus review of roles that sit under London’s investment management and corporate functions umbrella. This review is a comprehensive assessment of compensation across a broad variety of roles, covering specific areas of expertise and associated functions, whilst highlighting salaries and bonus averages.
Actuarial Salary Survey 2022 (Goodman Masson)
For compliance reasons, this paper is only accessible in certain geographies
Goodman Masson’s salary survey for UK General Insurance Actuaries collected all data from August to September 2022 and the results shown are 100% based on the data collected. Actuarial roles in pensions, reinsurance, commercial, and consultancy across the UK regions are included.
US
Executive & Investment Compensation Review 2023 (Global Governance Advisors)
For compliance reasons, this paper is only accessible in the United States
In assessing the competitiveness of compensation at CalPERS, GGA has generally compared the Midpoint Salary, Target Total Cash Compensation and Target Total Compensation at CalPERS to both the public and private sector.
Executive & Investment Positions Compensation Review 2023 (McLagan)
The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) asked McLagan to assemble competitive compensation data for selected executive and investment management positions from its Board-approved compensation comparator group.
U.S. Public Pension Investment Manager Salary Survey 2023 (Texas Tribune)
For compliance reasons, this paper is only accessible in the United States
This database of compensation for Texas state employees is published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. We publish this information because we believe that disclosing how tax dollars are spent is in the public interest.
U.S. Financial Services Compensation Guide (Johnson Associates, Mar 2022)
Major 2021 key takeaways are that incentives are up as impact of pandemic continues affecting back to work and employee fatigue accumulates. Moreover, there is an optimistic 'bubble' in financial services and the broader economy, which is building base salary pressures at year-end.
U.S. Actuarial Salaries: Survey results (Actuarial Careers Inc, 2021)
Actuarial Careers' Salary Survey responses are detailed here. The survey questionnaire responses were combined with details obtained from actual placement data and reformatted into several highly interactive charts.
U.S. Actuarial Salary Survey: Pensions actuaries & others (DW Simpson, 2021)
DW Simpson’s Actuarial Salary Survey contains information obtained from normal business operations. The survey covers actuarial roles across a range of business lines and incorporates International data.
U.S. Actuarial Salary Survey (Ezra Penland, 2021)
Ezra Penland’s Actuarial Recruitment surveys offers in-depth insight into a wide variety of actuarial employment roles which cover a broad range of remuneration packages.
Pension Actuary Salary Survey (S.C. International, 2021)
S.C. International lists a table of U.S. pension actutarial salaries.
AUSTRALIA
2022 Super Fund Salary Survey (Investment Magazine)
For compliance reasons, this paper is only accessible in certain geographies
In a period described by some analysts as “the hardest time ever to be an investor” it’s probably not surprising that aggregate pay for the top ten highest paid superannuation industry CIOs increased by around 10 per cent in the financial year ending June 2021.
CalPERS Investment Positions Compensation (Global Governance Advisors, 2022)
The California Public Employees Retirement System ('CalPERS') asked McLagan to assemble competitive compensation data for investment management positions from its board-approved compensation comparator group.
Australian Super Salaries: CIO and CEO salary survey (Investment Magazine, 2022)
Details of salaries for senior roles in Australian super funds are outlined in this article from Investment magazine.
2021 UK Pension Roles and Adviser Salary Survey (Recruit UK)
Recruit UK's 2021 report is a survey of financial adviser and paraplanner salaries and also contains key trends for the UK market.
Salary Survey: UniSuper’s CIO in Pole Position (Investment Magazine)
For compliance reasons, this paper is only accessible in certain geographies
Six industry super funds as well as public sector fund Commonwealth Superannuation Corp paid their CIOs over a million dollars as investors endured one of the most volatile years on record.