Numbers You Can Count On: What You’ll Find Inside the Salary Guide From Robert Half

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If you’re an employer, salary discussions are among the most important conversations you can have with potential hires — and your current employees, too. And for workers, it’s critical to know what level of compensation you can expect to earn in a job based on your skills and experience. It’s knowledge that can help you have constructive salary negotiations with employers and also understand what you may need to do as a professional to take the next step up in pay.

One comprehensive resource for employers, employees and job seekers that provides insight on current hiring and compensation trends is the Salary Guide From Robert Half. We’ve published this guide annually for decades — and you can access it now on our website.

The data in the guide is the result of a rigorous, multistep process we use to make sure our projections for starting salaries accurately reflect what’s happening in the marketplace. You can learn more about our process here.

You’ll also find details on the three percentiles (25th, 50th and 75th) we use to organize our starting compensation estimates for hundreds of roles across the following seven professional fields:

Finance and accounting

Technology

Marketing and creative

Legal

Administrative and customer support

Healthcare

Human resources

You can easily navigate our Salary Guide to access the information that interests you most. It’s divided into three main sections.

1. U.S. Hiring Outlook

Here, you’ll get an overview of trends shaping the hiring environment in the United States and likely to impact your business or job search. You’ll find research and insights on several topics, including the:

Hiring challenges employers anticipate in 2025

Gap between candidates’ compensation expectations and employers’ offers

Consequences of long hiring cycles

Impacts of retirements and turnover, and how managers are addressing them

2. Salaries and Trends by Profession

This is the portion of the guide where you can explore projected 2025 salaries by category and location in the seven professional fields we feature. So, for example, perhaps you want to know what level of compensation a senior financial analyst could potentially earn in 2025. Here’s what you’d do:

Choose “Finance and Accounting” in the drop-down menu under “Salaries and Trends by Profession.” This will take you to the “Finance and Accounting Salaries and Hiring Trends” page.

Scroll down to the “View salaries by category” section and use the drop-down menu to choose “Financial Analysis” in the field labeled “Role category.”

Click the “View salaries” button.

Look in the results field below, and you’ll see that the midpoint starting salary for that role is $105,000.

Now, say you want to localize that salary — and your market is Philadelphia. In the same field where you selected the role category, take these steps:

Insert your location information in the “City” field.

Click the “View Salaries” button.

Look in the field below, and you’ll see that the midpoint projected salary for 2025 for a senior financial analyst in Philadelphia is $122,325. (You’ll also learn that starting salaries in Philadelphia are 16.5% higher than the national average for this role, based on our research.)

For each section in the guide that relates to one of the seven professional fields, you’ll find research on hiring trends specific to the field in focus. So, for instance, “Finance and Accounting Salaries and Hiring Trends” provides an overview of the hiring market; the hottest finance and accounting jobs, skills and industries; what skills managers say they are willing to increase salaries for; and where finance and accounting employers are using contract talent most in their organizations.

3. Benefits and Perks

Of course, salary is only one component of a competitive compensation package. Benefits and perks matter, too, and today’s workers have high expectations about these offerings. That’s why we devote an entire section of the Salary Guide From Robert Half to research on what benefits and perks workers want most, and what employers generally offer.

In our latest guide, we also look at which employee benefits and perks U.S. employers most recently added or enhanced, and what types of offerings workers might expect to receive if they join a small, midsize or large company.

Robert Half has published an annual Salary Guide for so many years because we recognize it’s a valuable tool for employers, professionals who are currently employed and job seekers alike. The core aim of our Salary Guide is to provide you with insights and numbers you can count on, whether you’re:

Determining the salary for a new role at your firm

Calculating a raise for a valued employee

Benchmarking the salaries, benefits and perks you offer

Creating staffing plans and budgets for the year ahead

Preparing to ask your boss for a pay increase

Searching for a new job in your local market — or beyond

Launching a career, or considering a new professional path

You can check out the latest Salary Guide right now on the Robert Half website.

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