Today is Equal Pay Day — the date that symbolizes how far into 2026 women must work to earn what men earned in 2025 alone. That this marker falls later in the year than it did two years ago is not a bureaucratic footnote. It is a statistical indictment of stalled progress. And the data supporting that conclusion have never been more important for human resources and compensation professionals to understand.
We hit the floor at HR Transform 2026 in Las Vegas to get compensation leaders unfiltered take on performance management, peanut butter pay increases, and how AI is impacting comp.
Discover why 2026 is the year of strategic alignment. Our podcast panel explores what the data says about pay increases, the move from compensation as a cost to an investment, and the emergence of AI in comp.
The CEO promises nothing will change. Then HR changes everything. Here's a guide to handling pay, benefits, job re-leveling, and more following a merger and acquisition.
Golf simulators. Five-star cuisine. Six-figure salaries. Data center construction sites are making headlines. But is the AI building boom actually moving the needle on construction wages. We dug into the numbers.
ChatGPT gave us two salary ranges for the same job with a $28,000 difference between them. Which one is right? Neither. Here's what happens when you trust the wrong AI with benchmarking.
