The IR Magazine Global IR Salary & Careers Report 2020 is our latest report looking at the current level of salaries and bonuses paid to IR practitioners, both IR heads and IROs. Further investigation is made into changes in pay and bonuses experienced since the report’s last publication in 2018.
This year the report also investigates the previous roles IR practitioners had before joining investor relations, as well as the responsibilities outside of IR they have in their current work. We further look at the education levels of IR professionals and what professional and non professional qualifications they have attained. And we continue our investigation into the gender gap by comparing the roles of men and women working in IR, along with their pay and bonus levels.
This report is based on 652 responses to IR Magazine’s Global IR Survey. Fieldwork for data relevant to this report was conducted in Q3 2019. Much of the data in this report is broken down by geographical region and company market capitalization. For the purposes of this study, the key regions examined are North America, Europe and Asia, while the categories for market capitalization are defined as follows: