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Cafe Classic: Personal Pay Versus Salary Structures

Compensation Cafe

We bring you this Classic primer on some eternal salary management questions, via Jim Brennan. . What current incumbent employees on a payroll receive normally changes at a faster pace than the external outside competitive market prices for jobs. New hires enter at lower rates.

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Cafe Classic: Solving the Dilemma of Pay Progression Over Time

Compensation Cafe

Conventional practice is to hire most new people into their jobs at salary levels below their market midpoint or Market Reference Point (MRP) and to move grade structures maybe half as much as the anticipated general market movement each year. Yes, this is “math stuff,” but compensation professionals should be on top of such things.

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Walking Up a Descending Escalator & Other Crazy Pay Policies

Compensation Cafe

After many years in the compensation profession, I remain completely befuddled at the idiotic policies still blindly followed as “best practices” when they are merely popular mistakes continually repeated by a majority. serves on the Advisory Board of the Compensation and Benefits Review and will express his opinion on almost anything.

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What is Compensation Management?

HRsoft

How to get more out of your compensation management efforts? Learn what compensation management is and why it is important to increase employee retention , motivation, and productivity. Compensation practices continue to evolve as economic factors, industry changes and employee demands transform.