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Seasonal Hiring Steady for 2015 Holiday Season, but is Pay Spiraling Downward?

Compensation Today

They surveyed more than 1,000 US employers to highlight 2015 seasonal hiring trends, including: 82 percent of hiring managers were planning to hire seasonal workers for this holiday season Average expected pay or holiday employees is $15.37 While seasonal hiring remains steady for 2015, hourly wages are disappointing at best.

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Workers gaining clout in salary discussions? Doesn’t look like it

HR Morning

in 2017, although those are smaller than the average increase executives received this year and in 2015. Performance incentives: Holding steady or declining. Exempt employees are projected to receive bonuses that average 11.6% Discretionary bonuses for exempt employees are projected to average 5.6%

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Top 18 Employee Incentive Ideas To Boost Engagement

Empuls

In today's competitive business world, implementing impactful employee incentive ideas is essential for boosting motivation, engagement, and retention. Thoughtful incentive ideas can go beyond standard rewards to spark enthusiasm, increase loyalty, and foster a stronger sense of team unity.  What is an employee incentive?

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FLSA: The song (no longer) remains the same…

i4cp

Proposed regulations were released in June 2015, accepting comments until September of that year. The DOL has stated that it “is not considering expanding the salary level test calculation to include discretionary bonuses.” hospitals, schools, government agencies, etc.).

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Save on taxes: Bonus depreciation for business vehicle purchase

WEX Inc.

The Section 179 special deduction tax code (enacted by Congress in 2015) allows businesses to write off up to $1 million dollars of depreciable assets, including vehicles considered SUVs or trucks that were purchased during the year. What are the differences between Section 179 and bonus depreciation?

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Stuff Changes

Compensation Cafe

After every kind of corporate HR and consulting role in every industry, he was Senior Associate of pay surveyor ERI before returning to consulting in 2015. “Why was that promised raise challenged?” The salary increase budget that won preliminary approval in January suffered substantial revision in July.

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Designing Competitive Compensation Packages to Retain Talent

Accendo Technologies

Larger companies offer a mix of performance-based bonuses, stock options, flexible benefits, and comprehensive retirement plans. These are designed to ensure financial security and offering incentives for long-term loyalty. Leverage Total Rewards Packages Define and communicate what your total rewards philosophy is.