PayScale Is Headed to #SHRM17 Conference. See You There?
Next week, June 18 – 21, the PayScale crew is off to New Orleans for SHRM17 Annual Conference and Exposition. We’re excited – we love the chance to talk with customers and future customers. Our theme...
View ArticleShould You Attend #Compference17? Here’s What Your Peers Are Saying
PayScale’s annual event, Compference – the modern compensation event for comp professionals, HR professionals and business leaders, will be here before you know it. Our two-day conference is October...
View Article5 Key Sessions You Won’t Want to Miss at #Compference17
This year’s Compference (#Compference17), the modern compensation event for comp professionals, HR professionals and business leaders, is packed with educational sessions and actionable insights....
View ArticleKnow When to Ask for Help With Your Compensation Project
Every day, PayScale products and services help compensation and HR pros ideate, create, roll out and manage forward-thinking comp plans. We are always on a mission to help companies execute their comp...
View ArticleSalary History: Don’t Ask, Do Tell?
There are two approaches for making laws around salary history disclosures during a job interview: we can make it illegal for potential employers to ask for salary history, or we can make it illegal...
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know About Communicating Pay [New eBook]
Compensation can be a sensitive, and therefore scary, topic. Emotions frequently run high in these conversations, and pay decisions touch every level of the organization: employee, manager, HR/comp...
View ArticleUse Agile to Make Compensation Changes Manageable
Agile Methodology (or Agile devotees will tell you, NOT a methodology) “helps teams respond to unpredictability through incremental, iterative work cadences and empirical feedback. Agilists propose...
View ArticleThe Merit Matrix: Useful Tool or Relic of a Budget-Rich Past?
There are a few interesting conversations going around HR and compensation conferences this year. One has to do with performance management, going “ratingless,” and the best ways to link performance...
View Article5 Things to Teach Managers About Having Tough Pay Conversations
Conversations about pay can be tough — especially when they involve disagreement or confusion around pay or the reasons for a pay decision or the perception of pay inequity. For these difficult...
View ArticleThe Official #Compference17 Schedule of Events in ATX
Heads up: This year’s schedule for PayScale’s Compference, the modern compensation event for comp professionals, HR professionals and business leaders, is now posted! Join peers from comp teams, HR...
View ArticleCanadian Edition of PayScale’s 2017 Compensation Best Practices Report Has...
The annual Compensation Best Practices Report (CBPR) you know and love now has an all-Canada edition! While the full report is in its eighth year, this is the first year we’re able to detail...
View Article7 Tips for Moving to a Pay-for-Performance Culture
Companies have seen a bit of a revolution in performance-based pay in the past few years. Most have removed the rank-and-yank style of performance management. Some are removing performance ratings...
View ArticleHow Compensation Can Help Your Company Innovate
Whether it’s a new streaming digital music service that renders your CDs obsolete or a new SaaS technology vendor that’s upending the status quo at your business, innovation is disrupting our lives...
View ArticleCommunicating Pay the Right Way: Why It Matters and How to Do It [New Ebook]
Compensation can be a tricky topic. What someone is paid has an enormous impact on his or her life, and can carry all kinds of implicit meanings. It can be the difference between Angela in marketing...
View ArticleThe 4 Times You Should Be Talking About Compensation Throughout the Year
We’ve written a lot at PayScale about compensation communication — especially about WHY talking about compensation is important, and WHO should be talking about pay. One of the things we haven’t...
View ArticleCommunicating Compensation: Who Should Say What When
This is an excerpt from our recent ebook collaboration with BambooHR entitled Everything You Need to Know About Communicating Pay. Download the full ebook here. Responsibilities and Timing Everyone in...
View ArticleHow To Communicate Compensation Plans to Differing Generations
This is an excerpt from our recent ebook collaboration with BambooHR entitled Everything You Need to Know About Communicating Pay. Download the full ebook here. Workforce demographics are changing, and...
View ArticleHow Managers Should Respond to ‘I Found a Salary Report Online’
This is an excerpt from our recent ebook collaboration with BambooHR entitled Everything You Need to Know About Communicating Pay. Download the full ebook here. An employee brings a salary report to...
View ArticleWhen and How Your Peers Are Comparing Employee Pay to Market Data
This is an excerpt from PayScale’s 2017 Compensation Best Practices Report, a comprehensive look at the compensation strategies and pay practices of 7,700 respondents to the Compensation Best Practices...
View ArticleReadiness Checklist: How Do You Know the Right Level of Pay Transparency for...
With companies like Buffer and Gravity Payments raising the bar on radical pay transparency and employees expecting more information about pay and pay decisions, more companies are exploring what it...
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