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Cafe Classic: Are You Watching the Store?

Compensation Cafe

A new business year brings with it both the end and the beginning of the company’s annual management incentive plan cycle. Perhaps instead of a rubber stamp now might be a good time to review the design, communication, administration and payment history of your annual management incentive plan and consider breathing some new life into it.

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Cafe Classic: Compensation Practitioners Should Be Skeptical of Economic Forecasts

Compensation Cafe

Where to learn more: Projections Overview and Highlights, 2016-26 , Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Throughout her career, Stephanie has completed research on a variety of topics including wage determination, pay gaps and inequality, and performance-based compensation systems. Department of Labor.

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Does Discretionary = Discriminatory?

Compensation Cafe

At many companies, there is still a widespread allowance for discretion in setting pay levels, variable compensation incentives, and equity compensation awards. When you add equity compensation as a pay element the results skew even worse. Using Amazon as an example: In 2016 Amazon stock was around $1000/share.

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Are You Watching The Store?

Compensation Cafe

The pending start of a new business year brings with it both the end and the beginning of the company’s annual management incentive plan cycle. Because if left on autopilot too long it’s surprising how many extra names get added to the incentive-eligible rolls, adding significant cost without proper review.

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Another New Year- Time to Think About Bonuses

Affinity HR Group

With 2019 over and at the dawn of a new decade, it’s an ideal time to think about bonuses for 2020. Organizations of all sizes and across all industries use bonus programs as an important component of total compensation. Discretionary Bonuses. Non-Discretionary Bonuses. There are many types of non-discretionary bonuses.

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Cafe Classic: Excessively Successful Incentives

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: In this Classic cautionary tale, Jim Brennan (using the 2016 Wells Fargo incentive disaster as his beginning "case in point") reminds us of how easily even reward plans designed with the best intentions can misfire. The only thing worse than an incentive that doesn’t work is one that works all too well.

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The 2016 #FLSA Overtime Changes: What #HR Needs to Know

HR Bartender

That is, unlike before, employers now can include certain non-discretionary compensation toward the minimum salary. Specifically, employers can include non-discretionary bonuses, incentive payments and commissions to satisfy up to 10 percent (10%) of the minimum weekly salary. There is one bit of good news for employers.