The global median salary range for IR heads is $150,000-$199,999 and for IROs is $75,000-$99,999. These are the same median ranges as when we last published salary data two years ago. Wages overall have risen slightly, however. In 2017, 41 percent of both IR heads and IROs earned above the median salary range; this has now increased to 48 percent for both.
The proportion of IR heads receiving bonuses is marginally up, 91 percent compared with 90 percent in 2017.
But the bonuses received are proportionately smaller at 32 percent of base salary compared with 34 percent in 2017; this is likely to have little effect in real terms.
The number of IROs receiving a bonus is 84 percent, up 10 percentage points from 2017. IROs typically receive a quarter of their base salary in bonuses, marginally down from 26 percent two years ago.