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Let’s Talk About the Trend Away From Base Pay Increases Towards Short Term Rewards

Something Different

Namely; the percent of annual payroll budgets dedicated to salary increases has shrunk from a high of 10% to a current level of 2.9%, and short-term incentives as a percent of payroll has skyrocketed from 3.9% (when Aon first started tracking the metric in 1988) to a record 12.7% last year. ^In So what does it all mean?

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3 Important Trends from the Latest Global Employee Engagement Report

Kazoo

The Aon 2018 Global Employee Engagement Trends report was just published, and if you are an HR professional or company executive looking for fresh, fascinating insights on employee engagement, look no further. For an in-depth look at the employee engagement stats and trends discovered by Aon, view the full report here.

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Compensation Cafe: Keeping Top Employees in an Era of Disappearing Raises

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” I shared research from Aon Hewitt showing straight salary increases are near all-time lows while short-term rewards and bonus budgets (variable comp) are at an all-time high. In “Where Have All the Raises Gone?” I’m not surprised by this.

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To give, or not to give? Navigating the 2023 merit pay dilemma.

HiBob

On the other hand, strategic compensation incentives are crucial for retaining the key talent you’ve fought so hard to find over the last few years. When it comes to deciding on merit increases , business leaders may find themselves facing a dilemma. To put it simply: It’s complicated.

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Best of the Force: In a True Talent Partnership, Value Creation Should Drive Incentive Design

Compensation Force

I'm convinced that the only way to create smart, sustainable incentive compensation plans is to tie them directly to value creation. This means that the money to pay earned incentive awards comes from performance improvements, improvements which generate financial results and are driven by the plan design itself.

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Best of the Force: In a True Talent Partnership, Value Creation Should Drive Incentive Design

Compensation Force

I'm convinced that the only way to create smart, sustainable incentive compensation plans is to tie them directly to value creation. This means that the money to pay earned incentive awards comes from performance improvements, improvements which generate financial results and are driven by the plan design itself.

AON 40
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What's Going On Out There?

Compensation Cafe

Aon (including Radford ) just published data collected from April 7 to 10, 2020. Her firm, re:Think Consulting, provides market pay information and designs base salary structures, incentive plans, career paths and their implementation plans. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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