Human Resource Benchmarking

Our Human Resource (HR) Process Spending and Staffing Benchmark study provides over 100 metrics across HR practices in seven industries. These benchmarks allow organizations to evaluate their HR spending and staffing levels with detailed insights.

For a more customized analysis, we can handle the benchmarking for you. By simply providing your HR budget and staffing data, our analysts will leverage our proprietary tool, AvaMark, to generate benchmarks and deliver a comprehensive analysis. The deliverable will be a 70+ page report that benchmarks your HR spending and staffing ratios in three key ways:

by comparing your data against all organizations in our extensive database
by benchmarking your performance against similarly-sized organizations
by evaluating your results within your specific industry sector

Our analysis includes insights into variations from benchmarks and recommendations for further investigation. Additionally, the service includes walkthrough by our analysts and advisors to discuss the findings and recommendations.

15+ Spending Metrics

20+ Operations Metrics

40+ Staffing Metrics

15+ Services Metrics

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BENCHMARKING COVERAGE FOR HUMAN RESOURCE SPENDING AND STAFFING ANALYSIS

HR Spending Benchmarks

HR spending as a % of revenue

HR spending per employee

HR spending across internal, GCC, and outsourced personnel (% split)

HR spending across internal, GCC, and outsourced personnel (% split)

HR Staffing Benchmarks

Contingency or temporary worker staff as a % of internal HR staffing

HR staffing across internal, GCC, and outsourced (% split)

HR staffing across by internal, GCC, and outsourced by sub-process (% split)

HR Operations Benchmarks

Attrition rate

% of employees added

HR spend percentage split across personnel, tech, GCCs and SSCs, and outsourcing

Employees per HR staff member

HR Services Benchmarks

Cost per hire

Number of payroll cycles run per annum

Number of payslips processed per annum per employee

Learning hours per employee per annum

Benefits of HR Budget Benchmarking

There are a variety of reasons that organizations use AvaMark to evaluate their HR spending and staffing levels. For example:

To improve HR operational performance through better understanding of how HR costs and staff levels compare with those of other organizations.

To justify existing or proposed levels of HR spending based on typical budgetary ratios in similar organizations.

To develop a business case for new HR staff positions based on typical IT staffing ratios for various functions

To evaluate the HR spending and staffing characteristics of a potential corporate acquisition or investment target, as part of a due diligence exercise

Avasant also offers custom benchmarking studies for specific sectors or groups, allowing participants, including competitors, to benchmark their HR spending and staffing levels without revealing their individual data. All information is confidential, and we only use it to create aggregated summary statistics.