Compensation Times

When creating a strategic compensation plan, it will likely be a default to rely on labor market data. Although market surveys are a good resource when making a compensation plan for your [...]

How are policies at your organization created? If you think back to when you made your policies, can you identify what was at the root of them? Did you create a new rule or procedure as a [...]

Compensating people for their worth has always been incredibly important. But rarely do you hear about the other side to this, overcompensating based off of their credentials. Usually when we [...]

Are you still waiting for this new era of recruitment to end? Are you holding out so you don’t have to shell out higher wages? Well, doing this may cost you more in the long run. Continuing to [...]

Health insurance premiums are critical to workforce success.   In order to succeed with recruitment and retention in the current labor market, employers need to look carefully at the needs [...]

If your organization is struggling to recruit and retain employees, there may be some key people slipping through the cracks. This blog is going to help you understand who to pay attention to, [...]

In this job market, when hiring is more difficult than any other time in recent history, maximizing the workforce you already have is crucial. Read on to learn how. To build a more efficient [...]

The number of open jobs now exceeds the number of unemployed workers. Across the national workforce employers are struggling to fill open positions, and they are finding that the skill sets of [...]

Employers are at risk of falling behind rising labor costs, as labor shortages drive compensation higher. A recent release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics cites that wage and salary costs for [...]

Twenty-five years ago, I worked for a local employers association.  One of the “hottest-button” issues we faced, and what we continually fought to “protect” our members [...]