Three Ways to Streamline and Simplify Your Comp Plan
In a recent TLNT article, David Creelman, CEO of Creelman Research, laid out the three things holding back adoption of compensation software. Complexity. Spreadsheets. Over-complication. If you follow...
View ArticleThe PayCheck Fairness Act Doesn’t Go Far Enough to Eradicate the Gender Wage Gap
Editor’s note: This article also includes significant contributions from Lydia Frank, VP of Content Strategy at PayScale. Last week, House Democrats passed the PayCheck Fairness Act (PFA) — their...
View ArticleThis FinTech Firm Refined Their Comp Plan and Improved Employee Happiness
Ubiquity is one of the fastest growing 401K companies in the U.S. With more than $2 billion in assets, they’ve been helping 7,000 businesses and hundreds of thousand of customers with their retirement...
View ArticlePipeline Diversity and Equitable Hiring: Lessons From PayScale Equal Pay Day
PayScale’s third annual Equal Pay Day event just wrapped up. We had a great group of HR leaders, executives and D&I professionals in attendance and we had some rich, honest conversations about how...
View ArticlePayScale Index Q1 2019: Real Wages Down Year Over Year by 0.8 Percent
We just released the latest data for the PayScale Index, which tracks quarterly and annual trends in compensation and provides a wage forecast for the coming quarter. We create the PayScale Index to...
View ArticleAll Things Pay Equity Analysis: Key Learnings From PayScale’s 2019 Equal Pay Day
PayScale’s third annual Equal Pay Day event just wrapped up and we had a great group of HR leaders, executives and D&I professionals in attendance. We enjoyed rich, honest conversations about how...
View ArticleWhat to Do When a Hiring Manager Doesn’t Trust Your Data
Many compensation professionals we’ve worked with have been in this situation: They took what they assume to be a complete job description (JD) and used the JD to benchmark a role. Once they sent the...
View ArticleCareer Progression: The Missing Link From Pay Equity Conversations
Pay equity is a hot topic in 2019. However, the focus of most conversations and recent legislation such as the PayCheck Fairness Act is still centered around this concept of “equal pay for equal work.”...
View ArticlePayScale Releases a Data Connector to Enable Seamless Data Syncing between...
HR leaders at small and midsize organizations are orchestrators of many moving parts of a people strategy. They often feel like there isn’t enough time to get everything done. One major drain on HR...
View ArticleThe Compensation Profession Is Becoming Increasingly Hybrid
As a compensation professional, you don’t need me to point out jobs are evolving faster than ever. At this point, you’re likely already spending more time pricing jobs than you’ve done in the past....
View ArticleHow to Implement Proactive Pay Practices For Better Transparency
PayScale recently hosted our Equal Pay Day event and one of our discussion panels focused on proactive pay practices. Specifically, how can an organization better ensure their pay practices are...
View ArticleThe Risks of “Free” Salary Data
In today’s world, we have the ability to access nearly limitless data. With the click of an internet browser search button, we can gather information on almost any subject imaginable, instantaneously...
View Article7 Recruiting Tips for Hard-to-Fill Roles and Competitive Markets
You need to hire the right people to grow your business. Yet, business leaders, recruiting leaders and people managers are having a particularly tough time hiring today. Why? As the pace of business...
View ArticleEmployee Assistance Programs: What You Need To Know
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the BambooHR blog. Your employees have mental and emotional health issues. This isn’t an insult, just a pure statement of fact. Whether they’re...
View Article3 Non-Traditional Career Paths to Increase Employee Retention
Imagine you’ve gone back in time to 1979 and you are about to embark upon the first day of your career. You are likely starting an entry-level position and know exactly where you see yourself in five...
View ArticleWashington Passes Law Banning the Salary History Question: Are You Ready?
This article is written by Jessica Nguyen, General Counsel of PayScale. As the General Counsel of PayScale, naturally, I pay close attention to laws intended to further pay equity. PayScale is based in...
View ArticleHow to Use Skills to Price Jobs
Your employees have lots of different skills and talents. But which ones do you need to pay a premium for? Which ones aren’t worth paying for? To determine the right pay for each position, you need a...
View ArticleReduce Turnover With an Internal Talent Mobility Strategy
If you’ve had to hire any employees lately, you already know retaining great employees is tough in our tight labor market. In today’s strong economy, many employees have jumped ship or are considering...
View ArticleDOL Rules That ‘Gig’ Workers Are Not Employees
The “gig” is up—according to the Department of Labor (DOL), anyway. An opinion letter recently published by the agency rules that gig-economy workers are independent contractors, not regular employees....
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