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Joint Employer Liability and Compensation Compliance: Businesses Need to Watch Pay Practices Closely
This article is part of an ongoing legal series designed to provide insight and practical guidance on current and emerging workplace compliance issues. These insights shared by lawyers are based on their interpretation of existing regulations and ...
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Compensation Benchmarking: Save Your Q3/Q4 Hiring Goals
Does your hiring in the second half of the year feel like a moving target? This can happen when compensation expectations shift faster than most annual planning cycles. If your salary ranges were set many months ago, then there’s a good chance the ...
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Developing a Salary Band Strategy for Success
Compensation planning has entered new territory. With increasing pay transparency laws and employee expectations around salary transparency and communication, HR can no longer afford to “wing it” when it comes to pay structures. Now is your ...
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What Is Competitive Pay and Why It Matters for HR Professionals
Think of yourself as a candidate when you’ve sought employment. How much did compensation impact your employment decisions? Odds are it was a big part of your decision to accept or decline a job offer.
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How to Benchmark Compensation in 5 Steps
Compensation decisions aren’t just about numbers. They’re also about people, perception, and positioning in a competitive market. If your pay falls too low, then you risk not attracting and retaining talent. If it’s too high, then your company might ...
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Legal Series: How to Balance Transparency with Confidentiality in Executive Compensation
This article is part of an ongoing legal series designed to provide insight and practical guidance on current and emerging workplace compliance issues. These insights shared by lawyers are based on their interpretation of existing regulations and ...
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The PAID Program Is Back
If you haven’t yet heard, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Payroll Audit Independent Determination program (PAID) is officially back, with some changes and updates. For HR professionals, especially those working on compensation, compliance, and ...
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outRageous HR: Building a Compensation Strategy That Actually Works
If your compensation strategy is mostly “gut feeling” plus whatever you did last year… it’s time to rethink your approach.
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What is a Salary Band? Key to Pay Equity and Employee Retention
Compensation is one of the most sensitive and complex aspects of managing people. For many companies, standardizing pay across roles, teams, and locations can quickly become overwhelming. Without a solid foundation in place, pay decisions often ...
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Pay Equity Check-Up: Why Q4 is the Time to Close Gaps
As the fourth quarter rolls around and HR professionals begin prepping for performance reviews, compensation planning, and end of year reporting, be sure to save a spot on your planning and strategic checklist for a pay equity check-up.
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How Salary Benchmarking Supports Recruitment and Retention
How do you attract and keep top performers in a job market where candidates have endless options, expectations are high, and pay transparency is the new normal? HR practitioners are asking themselves these questions every day.
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What is Variable Compensation?
As an HR leader, you already know that developing an effective compensation strategy is more than just setting salaries. It's about building a system that motivates your people, syncs with company goals, and helps attract and retain top talent.
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Internal Equity vs. External Equity: What’s the Difference
When it comes to employment practices and conditions, fairness truly is a business imperative. As HR professionals, we know that compensation can make or break employee engagement, retention, and even your employer brand.
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6 Benefits of an Annual Compensation Review
Let’s be honest, talking about pay isn’t always easy. In today’s job market, avoiding the conversation around compensation can cost your company more than a few awkward moments. You could end up facing hefty fines, costly legal battles, and a ...
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What Are Compensation Analytics? Benefits, Uses, and Best Practices
If you've spent any time worrying whether your pay practices are truly competitive, or if your compensation philopophy is helping or hurting retention, then you're not alone. Today's fiercely tight labor market puts the pressure on HR to make sure ...
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Choosing the Right Partner for Compensation Strategy and Pay Equity
Think of your compensation strategy as the blueprint for pay. It defines how your organization sets, manages, and explains compensation. This includes base pay, bonuses, benefits, raises, and the reasoning behind each. A strong strategy ensures pay ...
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What Is Salary Benchmarking? Make Smarter Pay Decisions
Human Resources (HR) knows just how tough it can be to get compensation right. Between keeping your top performers happy, attracting new talent, staying compliant, and managing budgets, pay decisions can seem never-ending and overwhelming. That’s ...
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Pay Equity Consultant vs. Pay Equity Software: What’s Best for You?
Choosing Between a Pay Equity Consultant and Pay Equity Software: What’s Right for Your Business? Your internal pay equity audit just flagged a wage gap. Now what? Do you trust a software platform to sort it out for you, or do you bring in a ...
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Compensation Philosophy: What You Need to Know
Let’s talk about something that Human Resources (HR) plays a large role in that doesn’t always get clearly defined from the beginning. That’s compensation philosophy.
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6 Advantages of Working with a Compensation Consultant
6 Reasons Companies Are Outsourcing to Compensation Consultants In today’s labor market, how you structure compensation for your team is critical. Pay structure influences who you attract, how long they stay, and whether you stay compliant with a ...
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Pay Compression: What Is It and How to Fix It
Familiar with pay compression? If you're in HR, then you've likely come across scenarios where a new hire is brought in at a salary close to, or even higher than, the salaries of some of your long-term, high-performing employees. That’s pay ...
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How to Ensure Your Pay Practices are Non-Discriminatory
Administering fair compensation practices is not just the right thing to do, it is essential for legal compliance, maintaining a positive workplace culture, and for a company’s overall success. Companies that fail to establish non-discriminatory pay ...
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Compensation Structure: What It Is & Why It Matters
Attracting and retaining top talent is more challenging than ever, and that trend is expected to continue. A competitive and well-thought-out compensation structure can make or break the delicate process of hiring and keeping your best employees. ...