The Benchmark Group filter in engagement campaign results allows you to compare your results to organizations with similar characteristics—by industry, company size, and region. These dynamic benchmarks help you move beyond one-size-fits-all comparisons and assess your results in the context that matters most. In this article, you'll learn how the Benchmark Group filter works, what types of benchmarks are available, and how to use this feature to generate more strategic insights.
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Access and availability
⛔️ Required access to Engagement Campaign Results.
👥 This article is relevant to HR Admins & individuals assigned engagement results access.
📦 This feature is available in the Engage, Legacy Perform, and Total Platform pricing packages.
How it works
Benchmarks help you move beyond generic comparisons and provide critical context for understanding how your results stack up. By benchmarking against similar organizations, you gain richer insight into your team’s experience and can make more strategic, data-informed decisions that drive impact. Instead of asking, “Are we doing well?”, you’ll be able to say, “Here’s how we compare—and where we can grow.”
Here’s how to get started:
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Set your industry: Navigate to Company Settings in 15Five and choose the industry that most closely aligns with your organization. This ensures your company is included in relevant benchmark data sets.
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Apply benchmarks when viewing results: As you analyze engagement campaign results, use the "Benchmark Groups" filter to see how your data compares to selected industries, company sizes, or regions.
Help Center article 💡: Access & analyze engagement campaign results
Types of benchmarks that are available
Benchmarks are available across three dimensions: Industry, Company Size, and Region. These filters can be applied individually or combined with other filters to refine the comparison group and ensure relevance to your organization’s unique profile.
- Construction
- Education
- Finance
- Food & Beverages
- Healthcare
- Leisure & Hospitality
- Manufacturing
- Other
- Real Estate
- Retail
- Services
- Software Development & Design
- Software & Media
- Utilities
- Small: 0-149
- Medium: 150-499
- Large: 500+
- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- Oceania
- South America
- USA - Midwest
- USA - Northeast
- US - South
- US - West
- NA
Note
Learn more about filtering options in engagement campaign results in this article.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
The Benchmark Group filter allows you to compare your organization’s engagement results against external benchmarks across industry, company size, or region. This helps HR leaders interpret results with more strategic context and make more informed, market-aligned decisions.
Use this filter to:
- Compare your scores to similar organizations
- Understand whether low scores are internal or reflective of broader trends
- Provide useful context for executive reporting
- Set realistic, data-informed goals and action plans
Industry:
- Construction
- Education
- Finance
- Food & Beverages
- Healthcare
- Leisure & Hospitality
- Manufacturing
- Other
- Real Estate
- Retail
- Services
- Software Development & Design
- Software & Media
- Utilities
Size:
- Small: 0-149
- Medium: 150-499
- Large: 500+
Regions:
- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- Oceania
- South America
- USA - Midwest
- USA - Northeast
- US - South
- US - West
- NA
By default, your engagement results will be compared to 15Five’s Global Benchmark. However, you can dynamically select a different benchmark—such as a specific industry, company size, or region—using the Benchmark Group filter.
Benchmarks are available at both the company level and group level, so you can drill down to see how specific teams compare to external benchmarks. You can apply filters for the following metrics:
- Engagement Score (Summary Report & Engagement Report)
- Engagement Statements (Engagement Report)
- Driver statement scores (Statements Report)
- eNPS (eNPS Report)
- Manager Effectiveness Statements (Statements Report)
At this time, filters can be applied individually, not in combination. You can view benchmarks by industry, size, or region—one at a time.
Benchmarks are updated weekly and based on anonymized, aggregated data from 15Five customers who have completed engagement surveys in the past 18 months. This rolling timeframe ensures your comparisons remain both current and statistically significant.
Benchmarks require data from at least 10 companies in a given category. If a benchmark drops below this threshold, it will remain available for up to 4 weeks before being removed from the list of available comparisons.
No. Benchmark percentiles are “frozen” at the time your engagement campaign ends. This ensures consistency when reviewing historical data over time.