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Employee compensation – what you need to know and why

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Health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, 401k matching, stock options, employee assistance programs, profit sharing, paid time off, sick days and additional incentives could all potentially be included in an employee benefits package and would count as compensation.

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Incentive pay strategies: a step-by-step guide for small business owners

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Forget the notion that you can’t rush someone who gets paid by the hour, because incentive pay has the remarkable ability to fuel motivation like nothing else. While it may sound like a dream, it can be your reality with the right incentive pay program. What is incentive pay?

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Why Today’s Incentive Thinking Is Different

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Too often in human history, this meant that people with less power were simply compelled to work, and incentives — if they existed — consisted merely of being allowed to survive. After several evolutionary waves, we have a deeper insight into what truly motivates people, and today’s incentives are about far more than compensation.

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Annual Incentive Compensation: A Complete Guide

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Annual incentive compensation programs represent an enormous opportunity for motivating employees and executives to do their best work. In this blog post, we discuss annual incentive compensation including recent trends, policy changes among shareholder advisory groups, and challenges compensation committees face.

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Incentive Plans: Individual Incentives vs. Team-Based Incentives

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Incentive Structures. Incentives have always played an important role in helping to motivate employees, especially in the last few years as competition rises and more businesses are facing uncertain circumstances. The choice between individual performance incentives and team incentives is a deciding factor for many businesses.

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Improving pay equity: It starts with the hiring process 

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The hiring process is one of the most influential drivers of pay equity, as this is when leadership designs the role, sets the title and level of the role, and determines the salary range, incentive targets, hiring bonus, retention bonus and obviously the actual compensation offer. gender, race/ethnicity, age) and other employee groups (e.g.,

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Demystifying Compensation with Data-Driven Total Rewards Statements

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It’s a personalized calculation of an individual employee’s total compensation value and can include: Salary Benefits Insurance Pension Tax and fiscal contributions Employer national insurance contributions Short-term incentives (e.g. bonuses, commissions) Long-term incentives (e.g.