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Strategy Not Part of Your Rep? Here's How to Change Their Minds

Compensation Cafe

In my last blog article , I explained how you can cut and paste your way to a compensation philosophy. In comparison, strategic insights occur when you put your compensation practices and philosophy in a new light, where the illumination falls on the challenges your company will face tomorrow. Don't know where to start?

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Three Tips on Nonprofit Job Pricing Plus a Few on Benefits, Too!

Compensation Cafe

How many of you would think of using a compensation survey that describes itself this way? A unique Mission, wide catchment area and specialized staff that make pay comparisons uncomfortable. If so, your compensation target need not be equivalent to what a commercial survey tags for a business with hundreds or thousands of employees.

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Developing a Compensation Plan, Step 2: Define Your Strategy

Compensation Today

This is a lesson from PayScale’s Modern Compensation Planning ecourse. With your new compensation philosophy hot off the presses, it’s time to go to market to identify the value of your jobs. The next two lessons in building your compensation plan will teach you how to perform compensation benchmarking. GET A DEMO.

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Compensation Communications that Hit the Mark This Time

Compensation Cafe

What have data and analytics got to do with compensation communications? We'll talk about how this works in a minute, but let's start by checking out this comparison. Imagine you had to tell the Compensation Committee that the company couldn't afford one of their proposals. Think back to the earlier example.

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How Betty Crocker Thinks about Compensation

Compensation Cafe

Updating compensation practices or redesigning a plan? I've finally come up with a good comparison that I want to share with you. Length of service, age, departmental comparisons and such all offer insights into how compensation has been used in the past. I'm sure some Compensation Cafe readers can kick in more examples.

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Will Employee Compensation Beat Out the Kardashians for Celebrity Status?

Compensation Cafe

Employee compensation was a lead story in The New York Times on Tuesday. The increase in variable pay practices is no surprise to the readers of Compensation Cafe, but the editors of The New York Times have determined it's hot stuff for their readers. If your company isn't explaining compensation, the media might as well.

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Is Pay Transparency a Gift? Agree, No Opinion, Disagree

Compensation Cafe

Competitiveness: "In comparison with those in other companies with jobs similar to mine, I feel my pay is okay.". Nonetheless there are additional compensation-related survey questions you can consider that will demonstrate your commitment to how compensation communication leads to pay transparency.