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Closing the Tech Talent Gap: 5 Cities Where Techies are Flocking

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Here are five cities that, according to Indeed's report, made the most headway in attracting new techies and closing the talent gap from 2013 to 2015: 1. Decrease in tech talent gap from 2013 to 2015: 51%. Decrease in tech talent gap from 2013 to 2015: 49%. Decrease in tech talent gap from 2013 to 2015: 45%.

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PayScale Index: U.S. Wages Grow for 8th Consecutive Quarter

Compensation Today

grew for the eighth consecutive quarter, according to the newly updated PayScale Index. The typical employees earning power is holding steady and is up slightly from a period of depressed and stagnant real wages from 2013 – 2015. Download the Q2 2017 PayScale Index. Wages in the U.S. wages increased 0.5 percent since Q2 2016.

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PayScale Index: Wage Growth Slows in Q1

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percent annually in the first quarter of 2017, according to the newly updated PayScale Index , but slowed from Q4 2016. The labor market is in transition from the post-election bump in Q4,” said Katie Bardaro, VP of Data Analytics and Lead Economist at PayScale. PayScale Index. Wages in the U.S. Click To Tweet.

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Good News—HR Wages Are on the Rise!

Compensation Today

In recent releases of the PayScale Index , we’ve noticed some continuous trends. Here’s a little more information about the PayScale Index: since 2006, PayScale has tracked quarterly compensation trends—including changes in total cash compensation for full-time, private industry employees in the United States.

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Are Standing Desks Now a Workplace Must?

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Apparently 44 percent of surveyed HR pros said their company is either providing or subsidizing the use of standing desks this year (only 13 percent said as much in 2013). This post originally appeared on Payscale. I’m no mathematician, but that’s nearly half! I had no idea they were so popular.

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Survey: Putting Family First Leads to Gender Pay Gap

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According to a new report released by PayScale, Inc., PayScale’s “Inside the Gender Pay Gap” report examined data collected from approximately 1.4 employees between July 2013 and July 2015. putting family first can be costly—literally. million full-time U.S.

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How do we put a price on what our employees do at work?

Compensation Today

This is a question that the executive team at HPM Building Supply , a 95-year veteran of the building material industry in Hawaii, was asking itself in 2013. Payscale helps us do that.”. Economic recovery had resulted in sales growth and associated hiring, but competition was also fierce for an already limited labor pool.