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Cafe Classic: Personal Pay Versus Salary Structures

Compensation Cafe

Churn occurs among grade peers due to new hires, promotions, quits, retirements and reclassifications. New hires enter at lower rates. All unproven new hires will immediately earn about the same as the veteran incumbents already there for years, despite no assurance of immediate equal productivity from the fresh faces.

COMPAS 52
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Cafe Classic: Solving the Dilemma of Pay Progression Over Time

Compensation Cafe

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. Here is a fix. The issue is simple and clear.

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The New Workforce Gender Equity Factors HR Needs to Watch

Visier

While the motherhood penalty is an important challenge we need to overcome, both women with and without children still face many of the same gender equity issues, such as gender bias in performance reviews, which directly impact their promotions and compensation. Uncover gender bias in performance reviews and take steps to eliminate it.

COMPAS 152