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Myth Buster: Talking About Pay Could Incite an Employee Riot
PayScaleIf you aren’t talking with employees about pay, chances are they are talking to one another—creating their own story of your compensation philosophy. Not a good thing. PayScale surveyed more...
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Is Your Comp Plan the Equivalent of an AOL Account?
With technology practically running our lives today, it’s hard to believe that there was even a time when we were all using flip phones, walkmans, and AOL accounts. It seems that new technology is...
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To Be Transparent or Not to Be Transparent?
To be transparent or not to be transparent: that is the question. Here is a thought experiment for you: imagine if your company decided to become completely transparent tomorrow. How would it go? How...
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Meeting Your Employees Where They Are When It Comes to Pay Transparency
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the Gainsight Pulse Customer Success Conference in Oakland. Among discussion of customer success best practices and trends, there were also deep-dive sessions...
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What’s Your Level of Transparency?
Pay conversations surround us every day, and the conversation around pay transparency in particular seems likely to continue to grow. While transparency is deeply rooted in our values and compensation...
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Readiness 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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7 Tips to Increase Pay Transparency in Your Organization
Pay transparency has increased in prevalence over the past few years, and with good reason. Transparent pay practices lead to higher satisfaction and lower intent to leave, according to a 2015 PayScale...
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Q&A: What ‘Audits’ Should We Conduct as We Move Toward Greater Transparency...
I received a great question today from an attendee of last week’s webinar on pay transparency, and I realized after sending my response that other folks might be curious about the same thing. As such,...
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Transparency Is Uncomfortable, But Absolutely Worth It: Some Tips
As a compensation software company with a mission to bring pay topics out of the shadows and into the light, we are fierce advocates of pay transparency around here. (Reminder: Transparency is a...
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How PayScale Uses PayScale to Build a Culture of Pay Transparency
Here at PayScale, we talk a lot about the concept of pay transparency and fairness. We do on-going research to understand how organizations pay their workers, who’s involved in pay decisions, how...
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How to Disclose Salary Info to Employees: Tips from CEO Anil Dash
Fog Creek Software Inc., a 20-year-old software company and PayScale customer, recently received some well-deserved attention for revealing the salaries of all its employees. Starting in mid-2016, the...
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‘Pay Transparency’ Is Gaining the Attention of the Department of Justice and...
Per federal law, it’s illegal for employers to forbid most workers from discussing salary with one another. However, this law is not well understood. Today, many workers still feel like they aren’t...
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The Best Organizations for Pay Transparency In 2018
Photo Credit: Pexels In 2018, your pay brand matters more than it ever did. In the latest edition of the PayScale Hero Awards, we learn which organizations go above and beyond for their employees in...
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How to Implement Proactive Pay Practices For Better Transparency
PayScale recently hosted our Equal Pay Day event and one of our discussion panels focused on proactive pay practices. Specifically, how can an organization better ensure their pay practices are...
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Key Components for Budgeting for Human Resources: Your New Year Checklist
In a New Year, the key components for budgeting for human resources are summarized by the three Bs: Budgets, Benefits, and Bonuses. In the early part of Q1, every department is scrambling to get...
View ArticleCompensation Conversations: Tips for How to Talk About Pay
Editor’s note: This piece was originally published on the BambooHR blog. As a kid, you probably learned that some topics were rude to discuss, like religion, politics, money, and which birthday your...
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The Impact of Salary Transparency and Performance-Based Evaluations
This piece is part of our series on sessions presented at Compference19. You can register or learn more about Compference20 here. Highlights from Compference19 Session: The Heart of a Company:...
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(New Research) How Pay Transparency Closes the Gender Wage Gap
It’s 2020 and women earn $0.80 for every $1 a man earns. The gender wage gap has narrowed in the 57 years since the Equal Pay Act was signed into law in 1963, when women earned $0.59 for every $1 a man...
View ArticleCommunicating Compensation Throughout the Employee Lifecycle: Recruiting
An employee’s experience with compensation starts at the beginning of communication with a prospective organization, during the recruiting process. And, whether or not you’re aware of it, there is a...
View ArticleHow Resolving Pay Inequity with Pay Transparency Restores Trust in HR
This article is part of our series on sessions presented at Compference19. You can learn more about Compference20 here. Highlights from the Compference19 Session: When a Great Culture Doesn’t Cut It...
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