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HR vs. Payroll: What’s the Difference?

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Ensure payroll compliance and payment of taxes and fees. Calculate and send any employee reimbursements, bonuses, and holiday pay. Applying raises, bonuses, and extra incentives. However, all these bonuses can lead to other taxes, and they may even fall outside traditional payroll periods. What are HR functions?

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What’s the Best Way to Get Bonuses to Remote Employees?

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Remote employee bonuses, in particular, can seem tricky. And how can you send these bonuses to workers who live in other states and other countries in some cases? Bonuses are a form of compensation that you give to employees in addition to their set wages. Bonuses can help keep your employees motivated and increase productivity.

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Your Compensation Strategy: What to Consider for a Well-Balanced Approach

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These typically include salaries and hourly pay, insurance and retirement benefits, bonuses, holiday pay, paid and unpaid time off, and any other perks the business deems relevant. To help ensure compliance with legal and employment requirements. Be sure to differentiate your strategies for individual bonuses and group bonuses.

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Should You Hire a Certified Compensation Professional?

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Salary ranges for new hires and for financial incentives and advancement of existing staff members. Strategizing how to tie pay to performance is another area of expertise: CCPs look at a range of reward programs, from the most basic annual reviews, to bonuses, commissions, and other employee incentives. Compliance.

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How to Conduct a Pay Audit, and Why It Matters

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You can ensure legal compliance and employee satisfaction by conducting a pay audit. According to Zenefits’ People Operations Guide to Compensation , a strong compensation strategy has the following 3 elements: Your compensation philosophy, meaning your company’s stance on pay. What is a pay audit? What you want to achieve.

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Payroll Adjustment

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To stay in compliance with employment laws and regulations requiring employers to keep accurate payroll records. Pay adjustments can be for one-time events, such as special bonuses, or they can be for longer-term changes, such as raises that accompany promotions or annual cost-of-living increases. Bonuses, incentives, and commissions.

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6 Tax Breaks and Benefits for Small Businesses in 2020

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As 2020 progresses, owners of small and medium-sized businesses are planning for the future and looking for ways to leverage tax cuts and incentives to grow and expand. If you missed any of the tax incentives from last year, it might not be too late to use them, as well. Green vehicle incentives. TRY AGAIN.