ICBA Compensation Survey 2025

The 2025 ICBA Compensation & Benefits Report

ICBA Compensation Survey 2025

Thank you to all the community banks that participated in the 2025 ICBA Compensation & Benefits Survey. The final report and digital dashboard are now available for purchase.

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Due to popular demand, ICBA has brought back the industry’s go-to resource for community bank compensation and benefits insights. In partnership with Avannis, we’ve enhanced this tool to help you review trends and benchmark pay/ benefits with confidence.

The report is now available for pre-order — full access begins September 2.

Stay competitive in recruitment and retention with trusted, relevant data.

The ICBA Compensation & Benefits Report contains:

  • A streamlined PDF with the trends, along with an Excel (XLS) report including detailed national compensation averages.
  • Compensation data for 252+ full-time and 30 part-time roles
  • Breakouts by region and by bank asset size
  • A detailed policies and practices section covering pay increase budgets, bonuses, benefits, executive compensation and more.

Access valuable bank compensation benchmarks on topics including:

  • Base pay increase and turnover averages
  • Detailed compensation for community bank roles
  • Incentives and non-traditional benefits
  • Traditional benefits, by role and category
  • PTO/Vacation
  • Board of Director compensation/incentives
If you have questions about the report, data, or dashboard, please contact: tasha.gimmeson@avannis.com
Report & Dashboard Pricing

Available Sept. 2025

Member Participant*$650
Nonmember Participant*$950
Member  Nonparticipant $1,150
Nonmember Nonparticipant$1,450
*price after $500 participant discount Purchase

All-new in 2025: Dynamic Digital Dashboard:

  • Access a dynamic digital dashboard that allows you to sort the aggregate trend data by asset class, number of employees, number of branches, and more. This allows for easy analysis of 100 compensation/benefit metrics at the national, regional and asset size levels.
  • Free 15-minute webinar with Avannis on how to leverage the dashboard. (Recording will be available after live webinar options end).

Mark your calendar to participate in May, 2026

  • Participation in the survey is free!
  • Participants in the 2025 survey receive a substantial discount of $500 off the survey report.
  • This year's survey is more streamlined and easier to complete than previous years.
  • This is the only national survey focused on community banking. We are inviting over 4,000 community banks to participate in the survey, representing over 700,000 employees. Use this resource to help with pay increase budgets, variable pay, and staffing plans for next year.
  • Your bank is supporting the industry, because the more data collected the more value community banks like yours get out of it.

If you have any questions, please email our Avannis contact directly at tasha.gimmeson@avannis.com.

How it works:

  1. Enroll your bank: Complete a quick form to enroll your bank in the survey and indicate who you would like to complete the survey for your bank. (Have your FDIC number ready for easy enrollment).
  2. After May 1, the contact specified in the enrollment form receives a custom link to the survey conducted by ICBA’s Preferred Service Provider, Avannis, along with a spreadsheet of job roles. They can stop and return to the survey at any time before submitting it.
  3. On May 31 the survey closes. Please be sure to complete the survey before the deadline.
  4. Early fall, the new report and dynamic dashboard will be published and made available for purchase. Any bank that participated in the survey will receive $500 off the report and dashboard.

Confidentiality and Antitrust Compliance Statement

ICBA, its employees, and agents will preserve the confidentiality of all data collected from individual organizations for the ICBA Compensation & Benefits Survey (“Survey”).

To maintain data integrity and protect participant anonymity, ICBA will:

  1. Only report data in aggregate form when responses from at least five participants are available, preventing identification of any single participant;
  2. Only publish data that is at least 3 months old;
  3. Only report statistics for which no single organization's data represents more than 25%.

ICBA is committed to full compliance with all applicable antitrust laws and regulations. By submitting data for the Survey, you affirm that your participation is voluntary and that you are not participating in this effort for the purpose of influencing compensation decisions in concert with competitors. You agree to use the Survey solely for your organization’s internal purposes. It is ICBA’s intention that this Survey promote competition by providing greater transparency into compensation trends, enabling organizations to make well-informed decisions. You agree you will not use the Survey for any anti-competitive behavior or coordination with other industry participants. The Survey will be available for sale, to participants and nonparticipants, and to ICBA members and nonmembers.