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Pay Trends 2025: Resource Hub

Pay Trends 2025 Whitepaper

We explore below what areas of reward are high priority for HR professionals and highlight how HR can mitigate these challenges and bolster practices to support employee attraction and retention in the year ahead.

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Pay Trends 2025 Survey Insights

What do pay, skills and career pathways have in common? They’re the foundations of organisational success – and our 2025 survey takes a closer look at those critical connections.

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Pay Trends 2025 Slide Deck

For a reminder of everything we covered on the day, our slide deck contains all of the content our speakers delivered.

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Innecto Insights - Winter 2024/5

Delve into our economic review on the latest trends and industry insights from the event. Equip yourself with valuable analysis to help you inform your strategic decisions.

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Pay Transparency Whitepaper

The last few years have seen an increased focus on pay transparency, and the need to comply with new legislation. In our whitepaper, we examine the legislative requirements currently laid out, why it is important for businesses to understand and address the issue, and the steps companies can take to enable their leaders and managers to begin or accelerate on that journey.

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Introducing Innecto Brochure

New to Innecto Reward Consulting? Take a look at the breadth of services we offer and what makes us unique as the UK’s largest independent pay and reward consultancy.

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Innecto Digital Brochure

Four tools in one innovative solution: designed by HR professionals for HR and built on world-leading technologies - take a look at Innecto’s Digital Reward solutions.

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Advance Brochure

Navigating compensation strategies can be complex. Advance is your all-in-one solution for managing pay reviews and bonus modelling, empowering you to make informed and equitable compensation decisions.

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Evaluate Brochure

Evaluate is a job evaluation and architecture tool designed by HR, used by HR and advocated by UK and global business leaders.

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Reward on Demand Brochure

If you're tired of the restrictions of traditional project-based work or if there's no specific project scope planned, Reward on Demand offers a more flexible solution. Our service provides expert support when you need it, without the constraints of long-term commitments.

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Speakers

Josephina Smith

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

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 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. We are also pleased to announce an additional speaker, Sheila Attwood from Brightmine. Sheila is an expert in company pay awards, and will be sharing some interesting insights from Brightmine's most recent survey. 

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

Thank You HR - Hapi 2.0 Launch EventJoin Personal Group for a Morning of Networking and Innovation

As the world of work continues to evolve against a backdrop of changing socio-economic challenges, HR leaders are at the forefront of driving meaningful change.

That’s why Personal Group are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Hapi 2.0 - a platform designed by people like you to solve challenges related to employee wellbeing and community engagement.

What to Expect:

  • Peer Networking: Connect with HR changemakers to share insights and strategy.
  • Exclusive Preview: Discover features like Reward & Recognition, designed to help employees feel valued and motivated.
  • Keynote Inspiration: Hear from Personal Group's CEO, Paula Constant, and a guest speaker as they share insights and perspectives to spark fresh ideas.

Event Details:

  • Date: Thursday, 30th January 2025
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location: The Committee Room, The Royal Automobile Club, 89 Pall Mall, London, SW1 5HS
  • Entry: Free to attend + free breakfast buffet

This event isn’t just about exploring solutions - it’s about celebrating your impact and equipping you with tools to meet the challenges of 2025 head-on. Spaces are limited.

Reserve your place today and be among the first to experience Hapi 2.0 >>>