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Robots Aren’t Just Destroying Jobs; They’re Changing Them
From convenience stores without cashiers to delivery services without drivers, it’s hard to deny that the nature of work is changing rapidly. To stay ahead of the curve, we need to do our best to track...
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Do You Know the Difference Between Cost of Labor and Cost of Living?
I’m not sure how it happened, but understanding that there is a difference between cost of labor and cost of living seems to have become the sole purview of compensation professionals. That would be...
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Equal Pay Day 2017: Take Your First Step Toward Gender Pay Equity
Feel like you’ve been hearing a lot about gender equity lately? It’s not in your head. In fact, companies have been making strategic moves to better recognize and address gender inequities within their...
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Does Your Company Proactively Address Gender Inequity?
Addressing gender inequity — and making sure your employees know you’re doing so — could make a big difference to your bottom line. Why? Employee retention. In short, if your employees don’t perceive...
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Why Is It So Hard to Address Gender Pay Equity?
April 4th is Equal Pay Day, and PayScale will be hosting a Facebook live stream discussion about the challenges facing women in the workforce, including pay equity. But wait a minute. It’s 2017. Why is...
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3 Ways to Ensure Fair Pay in Your Organization
Fair pay is important — but what does it mean to pay fairly? If the opposite of fair pay is biased pay — pay that is unfairly prejudiced against someone or something — then fair pay practices should...
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Develop Your Pay Equity Action Plan
Happy Equal Pay Day? Typically not. Equal Pay Day is the day in the year when women’s wages catch up to men’s wages from the prior year. When looking at the median wage for all women when compared with...
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8 Things Your Employees Wish They Could Say to You
Everyone bites their tongue around the boss – it’s basic office etiquette. Whether it’s the intern watching their step around their manager, or the CEO tiptoeing around the board of directors, everyone...
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PayScale Index: Wage Growth Slows in Q1
Wages in the U.S. grew 2.1 percent annually in the first quarter of 2017, according to the newly updated PayScale Index, but slowed from Q4 2016. “The labor market is in transition from the...
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Benchmarking Pay for the US National Soccer Teams
You may have heard a little something about the United States women’s national soccer team and their fight for fair pay, which ended the day after Equal Pay Day. While we know that compensation for...
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The State of Manufacturing
Early in my career at PayScale, I worked with a manufacturing company that had recently done some merging. In fact, they had four different regions in the U.S. and another three in Canada, each on...
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California’s Overtime Law Would Eventually Raise Salary Beyond FLSA Rule
A federal judge’s ruling put a halt to the Obama administration’s rules expanding overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act. But, if your organization is based in California, a new proposal might...
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3 Companies That Revolutionized Their Performance Reviews
By Paige Magarrey, Workpolis Recently, we published an article on why performance reviews are still important to your small business. One of the biggest reasons we mentioned is also the simplest one:...
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College Costs Are Still Rising: What’s That Mean for Businesses?
My nephew is in the final throes of deciding where he will matriculate. I remember, vaguely, being 17 and deciding on colleges, and it was a much different process back then. I loosely decided where I...
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Tech Industry Trends and Treats
PayScale has a work-hard, live-well culture. The first time we tapped our kegs on a Friday, I wondered how it came to be that having beer at work was a perk of the job. My closet is bursting with...
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What NASA Can Teach Us About Hiring
By Julie Labrie, Workpolis As NASA hopes to send a crew of astronauts to Mars by 2030, the space agency has delved deeply into the study of team dynamics. Through that process it has discovered that...
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Pay the Friendly Way: United Airlines Ties Executive Compensation to Customer...
You’d have to live under a rock to be unaware of United Airlines’ recent PR challenges. From a passenger who was violently dragged from one of its planes to, most recently, the death of one of the...
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Healthcare Happenings: 2017 Compensation Best Practices
A few years back, I consulted for a hospital in a somewhat rural area that really needed their nurses to increase their level of certification. As a result, someone had decided that they would add $500...
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It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Union Organizing Campaign Anymore
Unions used to be at the forefront on employee issues. They bargained for wages, paid leave, staffing models, and used measures such as boycotting brands to bring attention to workplace issues. Perhaps...
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Nuances of Nonprofit Compensation: 2017 Compensation Best Practices
In a prior life, I did compensation and HR for a nonprofit. Every year, the age-old question would come up when it came time to benchmark our fundraising and programmatic jobs. The fundraisers,...
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