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Help Managers Play the Game: Give Them the Right Equipment
As a product manager, one of my favorite activities is hopping on calls with our customers to talk about all things compensation. I love talking to our customers—so much so, in fact, I recently was...
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Become a Gold-Medal Compensation Expert: Train at Compference
We’re nearly half way through the Olympics and I’m still glued to the TV set every night. Watching the swimmers and volleyball and gymnasts and all the passionate athletes is beyond inspiring. One...
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Is Your Comp Plan the Equivalent of an AOL Account?
With technology practically running our lives today, it’s hard to believe that there was even a time when we were all using flip phones, walkmans, and AOL accounts. It seems that new technology is...
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Countdown to Compference: Market Reports
I’m thrilled to be joining some of my PayScale colleagues in presenting at Compference 16 next week, where I’ll be partnering with Kaylyn Messer, Senior Customer Success Manager, to talk about...
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Countdown to Compference: Feed Your Talent
There’s one thing I didn’t get to incorporate into my presentation at #Compference16. Try as I might, I couldn’t get it to fit it into the rest of my discussion about the importance of talent markets....
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Countdown to Compference: Lets Get Social
The badges are printed, the rooms set up, signage in place. #Compference16 is tomorrow! We’ve got some great stuff lined up in the first ever modern compensation event. Compference is going to be jam...
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The Millennial Who Brought Her Cat to an Interview, and other #Compference16...
We are fresh off our first-ever PayScale User Compference, and it was an absolute blast. As a Content Director, I love what I do, but I spend more time contemplating WordPress plugins and less...
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Compference16 Recap: Communicating Comp, Transparency, and a Stranger Things...
Hi, my name is Ashley, and I’m an HR conference junkie. I love HR conferences, maybe a little too much. I love being around ‘my people’ nerding out on compensation and proudly letting my comp flag fly....
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A Data Person’s Take on Compference16
When walking the halls of the Seattle Sheraton, surrounded by HR professionals, compensation experts, and many notable executives, one could truly feel the buzz generated by Compference 2016. The...
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#Compference16 Most Tweetable Moments
#Compference16 was engaging, informative, and social – both live and online. Our hashtag even became one of the top trending hashtags in Seattle. Comp and HR professionals are definitely social people....
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Compensation Can Be FUN!
As a longtime PayScale user and evangelist, I was beyond excited when the team asked me to present at Compference. I was expecting a bunch of buttoned-up, boring compensation discussions. I was wrong!...
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When the School Buses Start to Roll, So Does Incentive Comp Design Season
Ah, back to school. Endless advertisements about who has the best one-cent sale on pens and pencils continually interrupt the new season premieres. Malls are packed with shoppers looking for new...
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Should We Wait to Comply with the FLSA?
Many clients ask: Should we wait until the upcoming presidential election to comply with the FLSA? The short answer is: No. Since the new regulations are effective on December 1, 2016, you really...
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Guiding Discussions About Talent Markets
The quest to understand how businesses are competing in the market for jobs would be a lot easier if you had a crystal ball. It is no easy feat to understand the invisible influencers that impact what...
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Visit us at #HRTechConf
It’s exciting times for the Human Resource profession. Long gone are the days of HR being seen as a department of corporate cops. These days, HR is at the core of their businesses, reinventing the...
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Questions for Budgeting Season
We’re well into budgeting season, which means it’s about time for many HR and comp pros to start scrambling around to calculate the necessary information for next year’s comp budget. In yesterday’s...
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The PayScale Index Q3 2016 – Steady Growth and a Few Happy Surprises
Every quarter, thousands of companies use The PayScale Index to stay updated on economic trends as they pertain to wages. We track quarterly changes in total cash compensation for: The United States...
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Skills on the Move
PayScale recently released the newest Skills on the Move report. As a recruiter, I have to keep up on the current trends of what is hot, or not, in the market. So I dove right in to the report, seeking...
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2016 Nobel Prize in Economics: Contracts and Compensation
We spend a lot of time thinking about how much people get paid. That number is central to any job negotiation: potential employees want to make sure they can meet their financial needs and goals while...
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