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Employee bonus programs: What’s right for your company?

Insperity

Employers usually offer bonuses to employees for a specific purpose (for example, to reward certain behavior or to recognize the achievement of established goals). For employees, bonuses are very popular because they represent an opportunity to earn more money beyond what their salary or hourly rate dictates. How employers benefit.

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Types of Compensation: Everything HR Needs to Know

HR Lineup

Variable Pay: Performance-Based Incentives Variable pay, also known as performance-based pay, includes bonuses, commissions, and profit-sharing plans. HR professionals need to develop transparent and fair performance metrics, communicate incentive structures clearly, and ensure that the variable pay aligns with organizational goals.

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What is Employee Compensation?

Decusoft

Health insurance, a retirement plan, paid time off (PTO), life insurance, overtime pay, perks, profit sharing, stock options, and any bonuses or variable incentive pay can all be included in this benefits package. After a cycle, management decides the duration of the incentive pool and the sums to be distributed to individuals.

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5 Ways Employee Recognition Software Pays for Itself

Kazoo

One transportation company used Kazoo to give retention bonuses and incentivize cost-saving behavior and saved more than $700,000 in the first year. Employee recognition software that includes incentive features can dramatically boost participation in training programs. Yet this is very short-sighted.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Long-Term Incentive Plans 

HRsoft

The success of any organization largely depends on its employees, and incentives are vital in attracting, retaining, and motivating employees. In the past five years, companies have been rapidly reforming their incentive policies to promote employee compensation packages being paid out over multiple years. What Is LTIP?

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Navigating Clawback Provisions in Compensation Plans

Decusoft

Some corporate governance officers demand that corporations “ clawback ” incentive compensation bonuses paid to employees if the results on which such awards were based were later discovered to be incorrect. Many bonuses in complicated financial instruments are compensated for years after they are produced.

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Total CEO Pay Rose 6% in 2016, Willis Towers Watson Study Finds

HR Daily Advisor

Annual bonuses increased 5% at the median, mostly flat with the previous year. More companies (59%) paid their CEOs annual incentive awards that were at or above target levels in 2016, compared with 58% in 2015. The exercise value of stock options declined sharply (55%) at the median.