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Connect Event Insights: Manufacturing Whitepaper

Read about the top challenges affecting manufacturing organizations, including addressing pay compression, retention, and pay transparency legislation.

Research Reports

2022 End-of-Year Hot Jobs Report

Payscale’s 2022 End of Year Hot Jobs Report looks at the most “recession-proof jobs" in 2022 by wage growth as well as which jobs employees are “most likely to quit” based on Payscale’s employee-reported online salary survey data.

Whitepapers

The New Playbook for Salary Negotiation in the Age of Pay Transparency

In this whitepaper, employers will learn what employees know and expect about the process surrounding salary negotiation today and what you need to do to impress savvy candidates and retain top performers.

Webinars

2022 End of Year HR and Comp Panel - Webinar On-Demand

Join a panel of Payscale executives including Chief Financial Officer, James Redfern; Chief Product Evangelist, Ruth Thomas; and VP of People, Lexi Clarke on Thursday, December 15th at 11 AM PST as they discuss the biggest challenges, priorities, and learnings that HR and Comp folks faced and could be facing in the new year.

Webinars

What’s Next for Performance - Related Pay? - Webinar On-Demand

Join Payscale’s Chief Product Evangelist, Ruth Thomas and Director of Social Impact, Vicky Peakman as they discuss the concept of pay for performance and what that can look like for your organization.

Webinars

A Fair P(l)ay Conversation

Like Payscale, Angel City Football Club was founded on the principle of fairness and rooted in pay equity. Alexis Ohanian, lead founding Investor in Angel City Football Club, Julie Uhrman, Co-Founder and President of Angel City Football Club, and Tyler Lussi, Professional Soccer Player at Angel City Football Club & Entrepreneur, join us for A Fair P(l)ay Conversation.

Webinars

Attracting and Retaining Frontline Talent presented by Deloitte

Are you curious about how to best attract, retain, and engage frontline talent? Have you ever considered the leading practices, strategies, and tactics other companies use to compete in an incredibly competitive talent market? Have you heard of the hyper-local labor market or expanded your compensation comparisons well beyond the “same industry/same job” approach? Join Deloitte and Payscale as they answer these questions and more.

Webinars

From The Great Resignation to Recession

This year has been a roller coaster for businesses:” The Great Resignation” leading to companies paying higher salaries and signing bonuses than in recent memory to attract talent, followed by high inflation with organizations giving higher annual pay increases to accommodate cost of living and employee retention, to sustained downturn resulting in hiring freezes and, in some cases, layoffs. With people costs being the largest expense most companies face, Dr. Marci Rossell shares her guidance and advice for planning based on the conditions we might expect for the year ahead.

Webinars

HR heavyweight huddle

Join us for a special roundtable discussion featuring HR heavyweights Paul Wolfe, David Buckmaster, and Ruth Thomas, moderated by Susanna Vogel. In this panel, you will hear from these leaders on the most relevant challenges of the day, such as how to work with executive teams on making strategic investments in people — including compensation — especially during tough times.

Webinars

International Panel: How to Manage Rewards on a Multi-National, Global Basis

Managing reward in a multi-national or global company has many additional complexities to that of a single country instance. These include sourcing accurate benchmark data, budgeting (given the differences in the various economies involved) workflows, policies and governance, time zone differences, cultures, currencies, languages, and communication. Technology plays a key role in ensuring centralized control blended with an appropriate amount of decentralized decision making. Data integrity is also critical and as is integration with adjacent HRIS, payroll and other platforms supporting the reward function. This panel will share their experiences within their own organizations and their key learns from managing such programs over many years.

Webinars

Navigating rapid pay changes and resulting pay compression

With a volatile job market and rising inflation, pay compression has been a big cause for concern in 2022. Now that we are possibly going into a recession, organizations have even more reason to be worried about how they will grapple with this issue. This session will bring together a panel of compensation managers to discuss how they have handled pay compression in a difficult year given an array of challenges and limited budgets.

Webinars

Radical Candor: About Pay and Equity

NYT bestselling author Kim Scott is well known for her book Radical Candor. From years of corporate leadership, she knows inherently that having conversations about pay requires the principles of caring personally and challenging directly. Kim will provide guidance from her experience and through harnessing the power of Radical Candor. She will also speak to how pay is an important equalizer for inclusivity, a subject at the center of her latest book, Just Work. With pay communications and pay transparency top of mind for employees and employers alike, this is a session you don’t want to miss!

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