How 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...
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 Article(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 ArticleThe 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:...
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...
View ArticleKey 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 ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View Article‘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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleTransparency 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...
View ArticleQ&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,...
View ArticleWhat if everyone’s pay was public knowledge?
Imagine if one day you walked into your workplace and found your name, along with all the other names of your co-workers, written on bright Post-it notes and your salary rates clearly written there...
View ArticleHow Transparent are You About Your Total Compensation?
In the last few years, employers have begun to see the value of reporting total compensation to their workforce. For many, this is a strong retention tool that helps employees understand how much the...
View ArticleAre Your Starting Rates Supporting Employee Performance?
In the grand scheme of things, how well you compensate employees from the start can influence both the short and long-term performance of your work teams. When employees know that they work for an...
View ArticleIs a transparent wage policy right for you?
A very common line in policy manuals is one urging employees not to share wage information with coworkers. Although such a policy could run afoul of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which...
View ArticleWhat if your co-workers knew how much you make?
Evan Rodd, PayScale We’ve talked a bit about social transparency – the dawn of a new social media age in which previous ideas of privacy seem to be rapidly changing. While many of us seem more than...
View ArticleCreating Pay Transparency in the Workplace
When you hear the phrase “transparency in the workplace” what comes to mind? Does the infamous Open Door Policy come to mind? Or do you cringe at the idea of being more transparent? Transparency is one...
View ArticleDo Your Employees Trust You?
Trust Makes the World Go Round What’s the secret sauce in the recipe for business success? It’s trust, according to recent research from Interaction Associates and the Human Captial Institute. The...
View Article