How to benchmark jobs using market salary data

It Is Time to Pour Your COLA Down the Drain

Rita Patterson, Onboarding Manager, PayScale

Managing Comp during High Growth Phases

<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_highgrowth_main.png" alt="Header_HighGrowth_Main" /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mykkah-herner-3972b33"> Mykkah Herner, MA, CCP, Modern Compensation Evangelist, PayScale</a><p>When organizations get into high growth phase, everything starts moving faster. Recruiting speeds up. Finding people desks to sit in rapidly becomes an unsolvable puzzle.Making sure every incoming person has a set-up complete with computer becomes a greater challenge.All the moving pieces that are tough to keep up with on a good day suddenly run the risk of falling through the cracks. Compensation is another thing you have to get right as you scale quickly. So how can you make sure you’re getting the comp equivalent of the right set-up as you grow?

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.

Paying employees right: What’s the big deal?

<p><img src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/Blogs/header_payingemployeesrightbigdeal.jpg?sfvrsn=0" title="header_PayingEmployeesRightBigDeal">By <a href="https://plus.google.com/115301125688955669806?%20rel=author">Crystal Spraggins,</a>&nbsp;SPHR and&nbsp;Katie Bardaro, Director of Analytics and Lead Economist at PayScale</p><p>The President’s proposed changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) are <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/Forward?SearchTarget=RegReview&amp;textfield=1235-AA11" title=" class=" target=" rel="noopener">still under review</a>, but that doesn’t mean you should forget the whole thing (tempting though that may be). Managing pay reactively generally doesn’t result in the best decisions.

Isn’t that your job? How to help your boss understand why you need a software purchase

<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_boss_main.png" alt="Header_Boss_Main" /><a href="http://www.hr-writer.com/" title=" target=" rel="noopener">Tess C. Taylor, CPC, PHR, SHRM-CP, PayScale Senior Blogger</a></p><p>Houston, there is a problem. The old way of doing things just isn’t cutting it anymore and you need to make a significant investment in a software solution that will get the job done. But, how can you approach your boss with the idea that the software will make life easier, while increasing business profits – and it’s not always YOUR job to do everything (you are not a robot after all)?</p>

You're Overpaying. Now What?