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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.

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.

‘Tis the Season for Rising Health Care Costs – Managing Total Compensation Changes

<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_risinghealthcare_main.png" alt="Header_RisingHealthCare_Main" /><a href="http://www.hr-writer.com/" title=" target=" rel="noopener">Tess C. Taylor, PHR, SHRM-CP, PayScale Senior Blogger</a><br><br>While everyone is out doing their holiday shopping and headed for parties, there’s an undercurrent of change coming that will affect nearly every American in 2016. <a href="https://www.payscale.com/compensation-trends/wages-are-up-but-some-employers-are-not-thrilled" title=" class=" target=" rel="noopener">Wages are up</a> according to the most recent <a href="https://www.payscale.com/payscale-index/" title=" class=" target=" rel="noopener">PayScale Wage Index</a> findings, but these wages are going to have to be stretched even further because of rising health care costs. How will employers manage their total compensation strategy for the coming year in order to remain competitive?

Building Salary Ranges for Beginners, Part 2

<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/Blogs/blogheader8-5-v2.jpg?Status=Temp&amp;sfvrsn=2" alt="BlogHeader8-5-v2" />By&nbsp;Jenni Marquez, CCP, PayScale Compensation Professional</p><p>In our never-ending quest to keep human resource and compensation managers informed and educated about compensation best practices, here is our second part in our two-part series on <a href="https://www.payscale.com/compensation-trends/building-salary-ranges-for-beginners-part-1" title=" class=" target=" rel="noopener">Building Salary Ranges for Beginners</a>. Enjoy!

The Free Trap: Why Free Data Is Not All It Is Cracked Up To Be

New Whitepaper: 7 Reasons You're Not Too Small for Compensation Software

<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_inthenews.jpg?sfvrsn=0" alt="header_InTheNews" /><br><p>What’s business-critical, valued by your employees, and likely one of the biggest line items on your budget? That’s right, compensation! You’ve implemented software for other parts of your business, so why ignore comp?