Executive Summary
The Luxury Retail Compensation Intelligence Database is designed to provide an unparalleled view of pay structures in the luxury goods and fashion sector, grounded in transparency and comparative analysis. Transparency in pay has become a critical issue in the luxury retail industry. To address this, I built the Luxury Retail Compensation Intelligence Database, a proprietary dataset designed to benchmark compensation across the industry.
Methodology: Building the Luxury Retail Compensation Intelligence Database
The database is housed in Notion—a deliberate choice. Unlike static spreadsheets, Notion offers a flexible and visual interface that enables users to filter, compare, and contextualize data quickly. The result is not just a dataset, but an intelligence tool.
Key methodology points:
- Scope: Covers more than 450 U.S. luxury job postings across in-store, regional, and headquarters functions.
- Data Standards: All compensation figures in $USD; salaries in thousands, hourly wages in dollars. The pay ranges reflect base compensation only, excluding incentives such as commission, bonuses, or equity.
- Comparative Lens: Allows benchmarking across brands, states, and functions, highlighting where talent is most competitively rewarded.
- Frequency: Updated monthly with new roles to maintain data relevance and track market shifts over time.
- Positioning: This report is built for those shaping talent strategy and those entering the luxury talent market.
It is the most transparent pay benchmarking tool in luxury retail today—curated by me and powered by this newsletter.
Database Access 🔒
For this launch, the link to the Notion database will be temporarily available to free subscribers before being gated for community member access only.