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Using nontraditional incentives to motivate your employees

<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/102099066436032147105? rel=author"></a><img title="BlogHeader3_5" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/blogheader3_5.png?sfvrsn=0"> </p><p><a href="https://plus.google.com/102099066436032147105? rel=author">Jessica Miller-Merrell,</a>&nbsp;blogging4jobs </p>Without question, cash is the most common (and many would argue the most important) form of compensation. Each year, most employees look forward to increasing their income. The general thought is that after 12 months of good work, an employee is entitled to a raise. This raise is expected to reflect the value the company places on the individual receiving it—or something like that.

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Calculating Employee Turnover

<p> <a class="asset-img-link" href="https://www.payscale.com/content/blog/images/a6a00d8341bf85853ef017744d20c53970d-pi.png"><img alt="Header_InOut" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bf85853ef017744d20c53970d image-full" src="http://www.payscale.com/content/blog/images/a6a00d8341bf85853ef017744d20c53970d-800wi.png" title="Header_InOut" /></a><br /><strong>Employee Turnover Rates</strong></p> <p>Employee turnover is driven by many factors including inadequate compensation, lack of employee engagement, poor job fit, etc. Whatever the cause, you can easily calculate your company&#039;s rate of turnover. This is a critical benchmark that can help you understand your relationship with your competition and with your employees. You should continually monitor this rate so you can make informed choices in the future. </p>

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3 barriers to successful pay-for-performance implementation

<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/100452540302428363448? rel=author"><img src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/istock_000015905900small.jpg?sfvrsn=1" alt="Pay for performance" title="iStock_000015905900Small" sfref="[images]eb40f79a-def5-6347-a9d2-ff00007054ad">Laleh Hassibi, </a>PayScale </p><p>Today most organizations are either moving toward a pay-for-performance compensation strategy, or at least discussing it. Correlating pay with performance has proven to improve employee retention in many companies, but even so, some detractors of performance-related pay models will tell you that more have been attempted and failed than succeeded.&nbsp;</p>

Paving the way to a healthy workplace with corporate wellness incentives

<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_healthyincentive.jpg" alt="header_HealthyIncentive"><p><a target="_blank" rel="author noopener" href="https://www.payscale.com/author/tess-c-taylor-phr-the-hr-writer">Tess C. Taylor, PHR, The HR Writer</a></p><p>As Obamacare officially launched across America this year, new requirements forced employers to look for ways to boost their compensation and benefit programs without raising healthcare premium costs. The new law permits employers to use as much as 30 percent of each worker’s health care premium on wellness incentive programs (up from 20 percent last year). The challenge to find cost-effective ways to maintain the well-being and productivity of workers is on.</p>