Innecto - Pay Trends 2025

Pay Trends is returning on 22nd January 2025 - register your place now, you won't want to miss this!

As automation and AI are transforming job markets at an unprecedented pace, investing in skills development is no longer just a smart move — it’s essential for survival. Your employees' skillsets are your armour against obsolescence.

Pay Trends 2025 will provide HR leaders with an in-depth exploration of the critical relationship between pay, skills, and career pathways, highlighting their integral role in driving organisational success and employee satisfaction, equipping HR leaders with actionable strategies to build a cohesive framework that integrates pay fairness, skill enhancement, and career development, creating a win-win scenario for employees and employers alike.

With a limited number of spots available, we encourage you to register your interest now to avoid disappointment!

Josephina Smith

Josephina Smith is a People Director, Reward thought Leader and speaker with a successful 20-year career in HR and Reward Management. She describes herself as a business person first who seeks to ensure that HR interventions are grounded in business reality.

In house roles include visible ‘No 1’ leadership roles with board/executive level interaction across a variety of industries. She is passionate about all things reward, performance management, diversity and Inclusion, leadership, helping people grow, making a positive difference in personal or professional life and Costa coffee.

Justine Woolf

Justine Woolf heads up Innecto’s client-facing services in her role as Director of Consulting. She has a strong reputation for delivering commercially focused reward and recognition programmes for clients that improve employee motivation and engagement, positively impacting the bottom line. Justine draws on more than 25 years of experience in pay and reward, both as a consultant and in in-house reward roles. She has successfully managed and implemented challenging reward agendas for a huge variety of clients, and her natural skill at building and developing strong client relationships is evidenced by the number of clients who return to work with Justine and Innecto year after year.

Sarah Lardner

Sarah has over two decades of experience within Reward Management, HR and Business Management Consultancy, and an extensive knowledge of international Reward and has the experience and drive to deliver high impact Reward practices for her clients, many of whom choose to work with Sarah and Innecto time after time.

As well as her consultancy work, Sarah provides a key link between the corporate and client-facing sides of the business through her role as Director of Business Innovation. In recent years she has spearheaded the development of Innecto Digital, building up our suite of market-leading digital products.

Agenda

Economic Update, with Pay and Benefits Trends

Our Senior Consultants - Cathryn and Simon - will provide the headlines from the latest economic data, and provide insights into how this will impact pay and reward in the coming year.

Making Pay Progression a Reality

Director of Consulting, Justine Woolf, explores why pay progression is more important than ever for employees, the challenges of getting it right, and what mechanics companies are employing to keep employees motivated and budgets affordable. This session will also feature table discussions where attendees can share their experiences with one another.

Fireside Chat with Josephina Smith

Join Sarah Lardner and Josephina Smith as they delve into the critical topics of the evolving landscape of skills, nurturing talent, career pathways, and pay.

Josephina will share her firsthand experiences and strategies for creating equitable and rewarding work environments, and you will discover how to:

Identify and prioritise essential skills for the future of your organisation.
Develop clear and flexible career paths that align with individual and organisational goals.
Implement effective pay models that recognise and reward employee expertise.
Build a culture that enables employees to see what is possible and empowers employees to reach their full potential.

BONUS SESSION: Survey Playback Session

Alongside our Pay Trends event, participants are encouraged to join an extra networking session where we will review our analysis of this year’s survey findings across various sectors and address the current reward challenges, including:

The newest pay trends across different sectors and the factors influencing these trends
Recent salary survey outcomes and how employers can utilise this information to benchmark their pay practices
The latest insights on pay and compensation, helping employers and employees stay competitive
The effects of National Living Wage increases and employer National Insurance Contributions, the challenges employers face in managing pay, and the opportunities for innovation

Join the conversation - take the Pay Trends 2025 Survey

We’re conducting a brief survey to uncover insights into the latest trends shaping the future of pay and reward.

Your insights will help us explore key topics, including career and pay progression, employee experience, skills, and the connections between employee and customer outcomes, shaping discussions at our live event in January 2025. We value your honest feedback as it guides our understanding of the evolving workforce landscape.

It should only take 5-10 minutes to complete. All participants will receive a free copy of the report, and the results will also be discussed at the Pay Trends networking event, in which we will overlay it with wider economic and Reward insight. All data will remain confidential, with only aggregate results being reported.

Take the survey >>>

Pay Trends 2025