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Walking Up a Descending Escalator & Other Crazy Pay Policies

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For example: if you increase your grade midpoints 3% every year while the average employee gets a 4% pay increase, the average worker's Compa-Ratio will only improve one percent per year. Picture walking up a descending escalator. Standard remedies are few and seldom applied. Then the cycle repeats. There MUST be a better way.

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