Of all the topics organizations need to talk about, you’d think they’d be most effective about communicating compensation. After all, although you hope that employees love their jobs, they work to earn money — to pay their mortgage, put gas in the car and buy their children shoes. So employees care deeply about how they’re paid.
But here comes the tricky part. Compensation is, appropriately, a delicate subject. For many good reasons, Person A may be paid differently than Person B, even though they’re doing the same job. So although you can broadly communicate your philosophy and framework for how you pay people, what you pay employees needs to occur in a private conversation (preferably between the employee and his/her manager).
