Lessons in Pay Transparency From the Public Sector

How Does Your Compensation Model Fit into Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?

<p><img src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_maslow.gif" alt="Maslow heirarchy of needs" title="header_maslow"></p><p>Jessica Miller-Merrell, <a href="http://www.blogging4jobs.com" title=" class=" target=" rel="noopener">blogging4jobs</a></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5;text-align: left">It can be easy to get caught up in the benefits rat race. You know, keeping up with the Joneses, or in this case, the Joneses, Inc. You probably spend a fair amount of time thinking about what’s in your benefits package, how it measures up against your competitor’s, how to market it to potential employees and more.</span></p>

PTO policy - what are your obligations as an employer?

<p><img src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_ptopolicy.gif" alt="PTO policies" title="header_PTOPolicy" sfref="[images|OpenAccessDataProvider]57f6019b-def5-6347-a9d2-ff00007054ad"></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="author noopener" href="https://www.payscale.com/author/tess-c-taylor-phr-the-hr-writer" style="line-height: 1.5;">Tess C. Taylor, PHR, The HR Writer </a></p><p>Nearly every workplace has a paid time off (PTO) or <a href="https://www.payscale.com/compensation-trends/earned-time-off-incentives-are-they-effective">earned time off </a>policy to compensate employees who must take time off for personal reasons. This can sometimes be a complex benefit to manage, leaving human resource professionals wondering if they should even offer it in the first place. After all, what does a company have to gain by paying employees for time not worked? </p>

Variable Pay Compensation

<h1 class="subhead"><a href="http://blogs.payscale.com/compensation/2009/08/variable-pay-compensation-strategy.html" style="float: left"><img alt="Variable Pay Compensation" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bf85853ef0120a57958ce970c " src="http://www.payscale.com/content/blog/images/a6a00d8341bf85853ef0120a57958ce970c-800wi.png" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px" title="Variable Pay Compensation" /></a> Implementing a Variable Pay Compensation Strategy: What to Beware Of </h1><br />How do you reward top performers and keep employees loyal during tighter times? In a previous post I suggested a <a href="http://blogs.payscale.com/compensation/2009/08/innovative-salary-programs-variable-pay.html">variable pay program</a> as a way to incentivize your employees to stay with the company and help it reach its goals. From profit-sharing to discretionary bonuses, there are a variety of options.

Determining salary range widths by profession: How to do it

<h1 class="subhead"><a href="http://blogs.payscale.com/compensation/2009/04/determining-salary-range-widths-by-profession.html" style="float: left"><img alt="Pay grades" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bf85853ef01156f17b14e970c " src="http://www.payscale.com/content/blog/images/a6a00d8341bf85853ef01156f17b14e970c-800wi.png" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px" title="Pay grades" /></a> Determining Salary Range by Profession</h1> <p>In a previous blog post we talked about the first few steps of establishing a formal compensation plan. Today’s post will be a continuation of that process. We’ll talk about how you can build your company’s salary ranges from market data.</p>

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Creating a Merit Matrix

<h1 class="subhead">How to Create a Merit Matrix</h1> <p>When is it time for your organization to allot its merit budget, how do you best support the decision makers? Consider creating a merit matrix. A merit matrix is a great tool that can easily summarize and boil down paragraphs of policy into a simple, quick-to-view and quick-to-use visual to produce better decisions.</p>