It Is Time to Pour Your COLA Down the Drain
Rita Patterson, Onboarding Manager, PayScale
How To Benchmark an Elf's Job
<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_elves_main.png" alt="Header_Elves_Main" />PayScale's Mykkah Herner, MA, CCP, Modern Compensation Evangelist and Paige Hanley, CCP, Compensation Professional</p><p>It’s that time of year and all of Santa’s Elves have been working overtime. As with many folks who work overtime, that means many of them have felt overworked and underappreciated. Despite their holiday cheer, many of them have walked into Santa’s office in the past week, asking for a raise. Busy himself, Santa turned to PayScale to determine the best way to handle his elf compensation.
How To Benchmark an Elf's Job
<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_elves_main.png" alt="Header_Elves_Main" />PayScale's Mykkah Herner, MA, CCP, Modern Compensation Evangelist and Paige Hanley, CCP, Compensation Professional</p><p>It’s that time of year and all of Santa’s Elves have been working overtime. As with many folks who work overtime, that means many of them have felt overworked and underappreciated. Despite their holiday cheer, many of them have walked into Santa’s office in the past week, asking for a raise. Busy himself, Santa turned to PayScale to determine the best way to handle his elf compensation.
Myth Buster: Talking About Pay Could Incite an Employee Riot
<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_myth3_main.png" alt="Header_Myth3_Main" /><p>PayScale</p><br>If you aren’t talking with employees about pay, chances are they are talking to one another—creating their own story of your compensation philosophy. Not a good thing. PayScale surveyed more than 71,000 employees to study the relationship between pay and transparency.
Myth Buster: People Don't Leave Their Jobs Because of Pay
<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_myth2_main.png" alt="Header_Myth2_Main" />PayScale</p>Busted! In 2015, the number one reason most people left companies was compensation. The majority of respondents to the <a href="https://www.payscale.com/cbpr" title=" class=" target=" rel="noopener">PayScale Compensation Best Practices Report</a> cited “seeking higher pay elsewhere” as the primary reason for leaving a company. Moral of the story? Money CAN buy you love.
Top 5 Insights from Last Year’s CBPR (plus take the new survey!)
<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_cbpr2015_main.png" alt="header_CBPR2015_Main" />Jade Makana, Director of Content Marketing, B2B<p>For those who don’t know, every year PayScale produces the <b>Compensation Best Practices Report</b>. This report is based on a survey administered to 100,000 human resources professionals and business executives, asking them their point of view on the biggest topics in human resources and compensation: everything from minimum wage and managing millennials, to recommending your favorite HRIS and payroll software. Last year, we got over 5,000 responses.</p>
PayScale's Compensation Glossary: Part 4 of 4
<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/Blogs/header_comp101_main.png" alt="Header_Comp101_Main" /> <b>Jenni Marquez, CCP, PayScale Compensation Professional</b><br>Let’s review. So far, we’ve given you the cliff notes for Comp 101, Market Pricing, and Pay Structures. Today we bring you (drum-roll please), your final exam! Just kidding. There is no test, but we do have our final list of terms for you. For our 4th and final lesson, we present: Pay Concerns and Pay Raises.
PayScale's Compensation Glossary: Part 4 of 4
<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/Blogs/header_comp101_main.png" alt="Header_Comp101_Main" /> <b>Jenni Marquez, CCP, PayScale Compensation Professional</b><br>Let’s review. So far, we’ve given you the cliff notes for Comp 101, Market Pricing, and Pay Structures. Today we bring you (drum-roll please), your final exam! Just kidding. There is no test, but we do have our final list of terms for you. For our 4th and final lesson, we present: Pay Concerns and Pay Raises.
PayScale`s Compensation Glossary: Part 3 of 4
<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/Blogs/header_comp101_main.png" alt="Header_Comp101_Main" /> <strong>Jenni Marquez, CCP, PayScale Compensation Professional</strong></p><p>Wow! Can you believe it that we’re half way through our 4-Part Comp Glossary bringing you closer to ‘comp’lete mastery of the compensation language?! In part 3, we bring to you: Pay Structures.
PayScale`s Compensation Glossary: Part 3 of 4
<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/Blogs/header_comp101_main.png" alt="Header_Comp101_Main" /> <strong>Jenni Marquez, CCP, PayScale Compensation Professional</strong></p><p>Wow! Can you believe it that we’re half way through our 4-Part Comp Glossary bringing you closer to ‘comp’lete mastery of the compensation language?! In part 3, we bring to you: Pay Structures.