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Employee benefits benchmarking in Ireland

Practical benefits benchmarking support to help employers compare, review and improve their employee benefits offering. 

Protect your people. Strengthen your organisation.

Employee benefits are a significant investment, but understanding their effectiveness isn't always straightforward.

NFP benchmarks your benefits against the wider market, helping you identify strengths, gaps and priorities across pensions, protection, healthcare, wellbeing and reward. The result is a clear, evidence-led view to support smarter benefits decisions and a better employee experience.

Make more confident decisions about employee benefits

Reviewing employee benefits without a clear market view can be challenging. With budgets under pressure and employee expectations evolving, it's not always obvious which benefits deliver real value.

NFP's benefits benchmarking service helps bring clarity to your offering. We compare your current benefits against relevant market data and work with your stakeholders to identify what to keep, enhance or introduce, supporting more informed long-term reward decisions.

Why employers choose to benchmark their employee benefits

When benefits are reviewed in isolation, it can be hard to know whether your offer is competitive, well-used or truly aligned with employee needs. Benchmarking gives you an outside view, which can strengthen internal conversations about spend, strategy and priorities.

Understand how your offer compares with other Irish employers

Identify gaps between what you provide and what employees value

Support conversations around budget, spend and reward strategy

Strengthen attraction, retention and employee experience

Give leadership greater confidence in benefits decisions

Understand how your offer compares with other Irish employers

Identify gaps between what you provide and what employees value

Support conversations around budget, spend and reward strategy

Strengthen attraction, retention and employee experience

Give leadership greater confidence in benefits decisions

How we support employers with benefits benchmarking

NFP helps employers understand how their compensation and benefits compare with the wider market, identifying strengths, gaps and opportunities across their reward offering.

Our insight and recommendations can support decision-making across:

Core benefits, including pensions, life assurance, income protection and healthcare

Wellbeing support across physical, mental and financial wellbeing

Flexible and employee experience benefits that support attraction and retention

Employee communications and benefit engagement

Market trends and emerging benefits among Irish employers

Why workplace risk management matters

Without a clear approach to workplace risk, organisations may encounter inconsistent processes, gaps in documentation and increased pressure on internal teams.

This can lead to operational disruption, increased exposure to risk and more time spent managing issues that could have been avoided.

By taking part, you'll:

  • Understand the market and see how your benefits compare
  • Identify priorities for future benefits investment
  • Access insights early before the results are published
  • Support decisions with real market data
  • Complete it quickly with a survey designed for busy HR and reward teams

Take part in our employee benefits benchmarking survey 

Take part in our employee benefits benchmarking survey and see how your benefits compare with other employers across Ireland. The survey takes just a few minutes to complete, and participants receive early access to the findings before wider publication.

Reviewing your employee benefits this year?

If you are planning a benefits review, renewal or wider reward change, benchmarking early can make a significant difference. Understanding the market before you make decisions can help you avoid unnecessary spend, focus on what employees value and reduce the risk of change that does not land well.

Why employers work with NFP

Our benchmarking support combines specialist knowledge, market insight and practical recommendations to help employers get more value from their benefits strategy.

You'll benefit from:

  • Employee benefits and reward specialists
  • Irish market insight
  • Expertise across pensions, protection, healthcare and wellbeing
  • Practical, employer-focused guidance
  • Clear, actionable recommendations

Complete the short form below to access the survey — you'll be redirected straight to the benchmarking questions.

Start with our employee benefits benchmarking survey

Complete our short benchmarking survey to see how your employee benefits compare with the Irish market. You'll receive early access to the findings and valuable insight to help shape future reward, wellbeing and employee experience decisions.