Retail and Customer Service Compensation Management and Surveys

The labor market has become fiercely competitive, with many retail businesses struggling to staff enough service workers to assist customers in brick and mortar stores as well as the talent needed to support the surge in e-commerce and online shopping. Payscale delivers the salary data and software solutions that helps leading organizations in the retail and customer service industry build modern compensation programs to attract and retain talent.

Top Challenges for the Retail Industry

Hiring in a labor shortage

In the recovering economy, the retail industry is booming and employers are struggling to find qualified applicants for their open positions. Competitive wages and total rewards packages are essential to attract talent in a hot job market.

Planning for pay increases

After a rough few years of difficult working conditions during a pandemic in combination with rising inflation and increases in opportunity, employees are expecting higher than average pay increases to keep pace with the market.

Managing pay compression

In a hyperactive job market, you have to think about pay equity. Pay for new hires can outpace tenured employees, even managers, which can put you at risk of unmanageable turnover.

Training on pay communications

With all the challenges in the current job market, it is imperative for employees to understand pay policies and for managers to be trained on compensation.

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Retail salary data available from Payscale right now

1.6
Million incumbents - Peer
96
Participating orgs (2021) - Peer
30%
Participation growth (2021) - Peer
296%
Incumbent growth - Peer
175,992
Employee Reported profiles

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How Payscale customers are leveraging the power of pay
Peer is intuitive, easier, and more enjoyable to use than annual surveys, plus there is relevant, real-time data and no need to wait months and months. With the market changes of late, having data that changes with the agility of Peer is required. Peer’s real-time data is the only way to be credible with my leadership team. You simply cannot use quarterly or yearly data in times like these where markets are being directly influenced by the social and economic impacts of 2020 – Peer is the way to go now and in the future.
by Reet Ari, Senior Director, Talent Acquisition, Privia Health
How Payscale customers are leveraging the power of pay
Payfactors is the vendor that has the most accurate data and has given us much more confidence in where we stand in the market. Using Peer by Payfactors is the first time our leadership team hasn’t questioned the data Compensation and HR has presented. I’d recommend Payfactors to anyone in the hospitality industry in a heartbeat. We go to a HR conference each year and most of the other companies we meet with also recommended this as their go to platform.
by Amy Gundaker, Human Resources Specialist, Island Hospitality Management
How Payscale customers are leveraging the power of pay
"After surveying team members on their preferences, we opted to transition to a remote-first workforce and were able to model costs and conduct analysis on pay strategies to develop a globally-centered approach to compensation with geographic differentials that would be fair and equitable for team members. Payscale has been a phenomenal partner during this process and have also provided services to help us deliver asynchronous manager training to communicate our compensation strategy and rationale to team members as part of a pay transparency initiative.”
by Stacey Sutela, Director, Global Compensation & HR operations,  Vistaprint

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The Payscale Index is publicly available data that tracks and compares wage growth by city, industry, company size, and job category. The Payscale Index draws from Payscale's Employee Reported data which includes a salary data cut specific to the finance and insurance industry.

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