Tag: wages

December 1, 2017

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 […]

July 29, 2016

If you’re an employer with a bunch of workers making just under $50,000 a year, prepare to work overtime to get your company ready for the new overtime rules. Under this new ruling, which was announced May 18 and is […]

May 27, 2016

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its first annual set of modeled wage estimates, providing 2014 and 2015 average hourly wages on selected occupations by job characteristics. The modeled wage estimates use survey data collected by the BLS […]

April 28, 2016

The U.S. labor market demonstrated its improvement in the first quarter of 2016 with faster wage growth, according to the latest quarterly report by the ADP Research Institute in Roseland, N.J., an affiliate of payroll services firm ADP. Rising wage growth […]

March 31, 2016

Many employers rely on top-notch benefits to keep workers happy when they can’t compete with other firms on pay, but those companies may have to rethink — or at least modify — that strategy sooner than they expect. In 2015, […]

December 17, 2015

Workers around the world are expected see “real” (inflation-adjusted) wage increases of 2.5 percent in 2016—the highest in three years—as pay increases combine with historically low inflation to leave employees better off, reveals a forecast by advisory firm Korn Ferry […]