The inaugural annual survey will provide boards, chief executives, and investors with compensation data drawn directly from executives across key African markets and sectors.
ACCRA, 10 November 2026 — TheBoardroom Africa, a pan-African executive search and leadership advisory firm, has launched its inaugural Africa Executive Compensation Survey, the first in a planned annual series aimed at building a comprehensive and reliable benchmark of executive remuneration across African markets. Survey findings will be published in a report in early 2027.
Executive compensation data for African markets is fragmented, methodologically inconsistent, and rarely refreshed in time to inform live decisions. Boards approve packages without data to defend them, companies lose talent to benchmarks imported from other regions, and investors price leadership risk without a reference point. The survey closes that gap with data drawn from executives themselves: current pay, bonus and incentive structures, allowances, benefits, and pay governance practice, across every African market, every major sector, and every senior role from director level upward.
“Every week, somewhere on this continent, a board is making a compensation decision with no credible data behind it,” said Marcia Ashong-Sam, CEO of TheBoardroom Africa. “That is not a small gap. It shapes who gets hired, who stays, and whether African organisations can compete for the leadership they need. We sit at the point where those decisions are made: in the searches, the board appointments, and the remuneration conversations happening across the continent every day. We see the cost of the missing data from both sides of the table, and we are building the reference point the market needs as an annual benchmark, not a one-off study.”
Participation takes approximately 12 minutes, and published data will be strictly anonymised; no individual or organisation will be identifiable. Every respondent will receive a complimentary copy of the full report upon publication.
Senior executives based across Africa, as well as those based internationally with responsibilities spanning African markets, are invited to participate.
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TheBoardroom Africa is a pan-African executive search and leadership advisory firm working with organisations, investors and institutions across Africa and internationally. The firm specialises in identifying and appointing leaders to board, C-suite and senior leadership positions, alongside providing strategic advisory services across the leadership spectrum. Through its integrated search and advisory services, TheBoardroom Africa helps organisations strengthen leadership effectiveness, build high-performing teams and navigate complex leadership challenges.
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