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After Years of 3% Increases, Where Have All the Good Raises Gone?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Cited in the article, analyst firm Aon Hewitt calls this a “drastic shift” based on the firm’s annual survey on salaried employee compensation. Aon Hewitt did not even start tracking short-term rewards and bonuses — known as variable compensation — until 1988, when they accounted for an average of 3.9 percent of payrolls.

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Are Annual Raises Dead? Only If You Don’t Want to Gain a Competitive Advantage

TLNT: The Business of HR

An article last week from CNBC , with data from Towers Watson and Aon Hewitt, showed that the annual pay raise is essentially dead (and in Towers Watson’s case, bonus pools will also be underfunded).

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Workers on COBRA Should Consider Moving to Health Care State Exchanges

TLNT: The Business of HR

“If people are going through COBRA annual enrollment this fall, I’d suggest looking into coverage on the state marketplaces,” says Craig Rosenberg, who leads the health and welfare benefits administration practice at benefits consultant Aon Hewitt. This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J.

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