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Cafe Classic: Personal Pay Versus Salary Structures

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What current incumbent employees on a payroll receive normally changes at a faster pace than the external outside competitive market prices for jobs. Churn occurs among grade peers due to new hires, promotions, quits, retirements and reclassifications. New hires enter at lower rates.

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Cafe Classic: Solving the Dilemma of Pay Progression Over Time

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Conventional practice is to hire most new people into their jobs at salary levels below their market midpoint or Market Reference Point (MRP) and to move grade structures maybe half as much as the anticipated general market movement each year. Yes, this is “math stuff,” but compensation professionals should be on top of such things.