What Salary and Hiring Trend Resources Are Available on Robert Half?

Robert Half publishes several research resources for pay and hiring conditions: a Salary Guide covering roles in seven professional fields with local and national market data, a Demand for Skilled Talent report on employers' hiring plans and needs, a Job Market Outlook, and topic-specific insights on AI in recruiting and technology skills trends. These are informational resources, not personalized compensation advice — use them as market reference points alongside your own role scope, location and experience.

Salary data: the Salary Guide

The Salary Guide is the site's main compensation resource. According to Robert Half, it provides "the latest data for roles in 7 professional fields" so readers can see what they "should pay or earn in local and national markets."

• Coverage: seven professional fields, with both local and national figures.
• Use it for: benchmarking a specific role before a salary conversation, or checking how pay differs between markets.
• How to use it: identify your field and role title, then compare the local figure against the national one. A wide gap between the two is a signal to look more closely at your specific metro rather than relying on the national number.

The page also lists the professional areas Robert Half recruits for — finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, administrative and customer support, and technology risk, audit and compliance — which indicates the fields the salary data is organized around.

Hiring trend reports

Beyond pay, Robert Half publishes research on hiring demand and market direction:

The Demand for Skilled Talent report is the most directly useful if you are an employer planning headcount or a candidate gauging which roles are in demand. The Job Market Outlook works better as a periodic check on overall conditions than as a role-level guide.

AI and technology insights

Two resource streams address technology and AI:

• AI in recruiting — Robert Half frames AI as "transforming hiring by adding complexity" and offers guidance on navigating that landscape. This is aimed at employers adapting their hiring process.
• Tech insights and talent strategies — guidance on emerging tech skills trends for "critical business priorities," useful for workforce planning in technology roles.

These are perspective and trend pieces rather than datasets, so treat them as context rather than as benchmarks you can cite numerically.

How to choose the right resource

• Benchmarking one role's pay: start with the Salary Guide, then check the local figure.
• Planning hires or judging demand: the Demand for Skilled Talent report and Job Market Outlook.
• Adapting a hiring process to AI or planning tech skills: the AI in recruiting and tech insights sections.
• Browsing open roles or contacting a recruiter: the jobs search, job alerts and "find your next hire" entry points on the site.

One practical note: the site's evidence does not state pricing or access terms for these reports, so check the individual report pages for any registration requirements before relying on them for a decision. For a salary negotiation, pair the guide's figures with your own scope of responsibility and recent performance — the guide gives market ranges, not an individual verdict.