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Wage Growth: Dangers, Opportunities, and Strategies Employers MUST Consider

Wage rates and competitive salary benchmarks are always evolving. For example, in 2023, we saw increases in the 5 to 6% range while salary increases for 2024 are projected to average 4%. While that sounds like a losing proposition for workers, it’s actually not;...

Communicating Compensation with Employees is Becoming the Norm

It has never been more important to communicate compensation with employees than it is today. In order to attract, retain, and motivate employees, it is important to have conversations about compensation as well as to conduct compensation training and education with...

The ROI of Employee Compensation

It’s perhaps easy to understand that employee compensation has a Return on Investment (or ROI). After all, you pay your employees, they work for that pay, and their work delivers value when your company’s goods and services are sold for profit. Cause and Effect. ROI....

Does Your Organization Have Its Heart in Employee Pay?

It’s a critical question for any company to answer: Does your organization view employees as an investment or an expense? If you regard your employees as an expense, you probably don’t need to read the rest of this article. However, if you see them as an investment,...

Pay Equity: Are We There Yet?

The longest journeys tend to beg the question: “Are we there yet?” Certainly, the quest for pay equity has been a long journey indeed – for women, people of color, and others in pursuit of a level playing field for compensation. It’s a worthy and necessary destination...
City salary increases pass first hurdle

City salary increases pass first hurdle

This article first appeared in The Republic City officials have taken the first step to increase the pay of 11 city workers to the minimum level of a proposed new salary scale. Driving this plan is the city’s hope to be more competitive with other similar-sized municipalities in the hiring of...

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Most city salaries less than midpoint

Most city salaries less than midpoint

This article first appeared in The Republic  Gender pay equality remains elusive more than 50 years since passage of the Equal Pay Act, and nearly 10 years since the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act became law. And despite widespread awareness of the “gender pay gap”, many companies continue to do...

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Managing Different Generations in The Workforce

Managing Different Generations in The Workforce

With five generations in today’s workforce, it can be challenging to manage them fairly and effectively. To address their work/life, compensation, and total employee rewards expectations, you must first define their differences and understand their divergent needs. Traditionalists (aka...

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Putting Your Variable Pay Dollars to Work

Putting Your Variable Pay Dollars to Work

Does your company offer a program of incentive plans to reward employees for meeting performance goals? If so, you have clearly taken a progressive approach to keeping employees engaged and motivated to deliver better bottom-line results. At least that’s the goal, right? But do you really know if...

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