Your Best Resource for IR Practitioner Compensation and Benefits

The wide variety of skills, abilities and activities IROs hail from makes investor relations appealing to talented professionals from many backgrounds. Whether you’re a job seeker, would like to benchmark against peers in comparable positions, or want to grow your IR department, this is your gateway to explore IR corporate and counselor roles, responsibilities, base salary and benefit compensation. 

Corporate IRO Profession and Compensation 

This periodic study conducted in partnership with Korn Ferry surveys corporate IROs (including Fortune 500 IROs) on trends in IR profession compensation, benefits and related practices.

NIRI's corporate IR compensation studies and articles include:

• NEW! NIRI-Korn Ferry Investor Relations Compensation Study Results 2022 (Members Only)
• NIRI-Korn Ferry Investor Relations Compensation Study 2019/2020 Full Data (Members Only)
• NIRI, IR Update, "Compensating the Women of IR" (Summer 2020).
• NIRI-Korn Ferry International, IR Update: "Compensation Rises Alongside Stature of IRO Function" (Spring 2020). 
• NIRI Webinar (replay), "Compensation Trends for Corporate IR Practitioners in 2020" (February 2020). 
• NIRI-Korn Ferry International Corporate IR Compensation Study (2016)
• NIRI-Korn Ferry International Corporate IR Profession and Compensation Study (2014)
• NIRI-Korn/Ferry International Corporate IR Profession and Compensation Study (2012)
• NIRI-Korn/Ferry International Corporate IR Compensation Survey Results (2010)
• NIRI Releases Summary Results of Inaugural NIRI-Korn/Ferry International IRO Compensation Study (2008)

IR Counselor Profession and Compensation

This periodic survey effort explores the current state of the IR Counselor profession. Survey topics include size of consultancies and services offered by IR counselors, revenue outlook, staff and client outlook, organizational structure and job titles, base salary, bonus and benefit packages.

NIRI's last four IR counselor profession and compensation studies include:

• NIRI IR Counselor Profession and Compensation Study (2017)
• NIRI IR Counselor Profession and Compensation Study (2015)
• NIRI Compensation for IR Counselors (2013)
• NIRI Counselor Member Compensation Study (2010)