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Our Methods
Authorised representatives from participating companies, including
Board Directors, Line Managers, HR and Reward specialists, shared data during interviews conducted by telephone with The Simmance Partnership
in the final quarter of 2017. In over 85% of the employer interviews which we conducted, job titles and their respective seniority and responsibilities were consistent. Where, in a small number of cases, there were variations as to title of role, whilst responsibility was the same, we mutually agreed the definition and included the data sets to ensure equal measures.
The intrinsic nature and difference of this FMCG Salary and Remuneration Guide to any other, is the fact that only actual, real-time salaries and benefits, as paid to individuals in those companies, currently in situ in the role, were collected. Ranges, hypothetical indicators or even generic salary bands were not used. We have often observed that it is these measures that frustrate the demand for the data and leads to unrealistic salary survey results.
To provide further informed comparisons of basic salary specifically, we categorised results by size/revenue turnover of company using Small, Medium and Large to represent company scale differences. Despite various definitions set out by the likes of the European Commission or Organisation for Co-operation and Development (OECD), there are no absolute European or globally agreed company size definitions. As such we have chosen to group companies according to the following scale for the purposes of this Guide:
Small = less than £50m Revenue Turnover
Medium = more than £50m and less than £250m Revenue Turnover Large = more than £250m Revenue Turnover
Confidentiality
To respect the strict anonymity and confidentiality of the data shared, the report illustrates only the aggregated outputs. The information gathered is that of a substantial syndicate of carefully selected well-known FMCG organisations and brands, who represent the wider world of food and non-food product categories, both branded and private label manufacturers, as well as the multitude of trade channels serving the grocery industry.