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Topic: Employee Compensation

  

Play for Pay

Progressive leaders such as Whole Foods's John Mackey are capping their pay in order to lead by example. "The tremendous success of Whole Foods Market has provided me with far more money than I ever dreamed I'd have and far more than ...READ MORE

Pay for Players

Today's Wall Street Journal features a special section on the WSJ/Mercer 2004 CEO Compensation Survey in which they declare "Goodbye to Pay for No Performance." While it seems that leaders are being held more accountable, the most ...READ MORE

Report: Starting Salaries Hold Steady

The gloom of the recession had many people expecting salary shrinkage this year, especially for new grads just entering the workforce. But the average 2009 starting salary for new college grads is lower than last year's by less than 1 ...READ MORE

Infographic of the Day: How Much Does Your Company's CEO Make? Per Hour?

GOOD magazine's contest, with a directive to design the best infographic illustrating CEO salaries, results in a design that highlights the personal and financial sides of the current economy.READ MORE

Legal Considerations for Making Flexibility Part of a Downsizing Strategy, as Alternative to Layoffs

DISCLAIMER--This information does NOT constitute legal advice.  Over the last few months as I’ve blogged about making flexibility part of a downsizing strategy, I’ve received a number of questions about the legal ...READ MORE

How Will You Spend Your 3 Percent Raise?

The dog days of summer are upon us - west coast skies are smoky and the east coast is humid and stormy. The economy is tanking, but if you stretch the concept of good news, employers are coming to the rescue with talk of small pay ...READ MORE

How Much Does a Decent Designer Make? (UPDATED)

Coroflot, a job-listing site for designers, has published the results of its 2008 salary survey. It confirms, once again, that design is pretty good work if you can get it. Top flight graphic designers, interaction designers, and ...READ MORE

Charities Offering More Jobs, Better Pay in 2010

Apart from good karma--especially given the recent tragedies in Haiti and Chile--working for a charity will also offer good career prospects in 2010, According recent findings from Professionals for Nonprofits.READ MORE

Can a Flash Game Fix Outrage over CEO Pay?

Everyone's furious at the brass. In France, workers detained four Caterpillar executives. At Obama's town hall meetings, citizens rail about CEO pay. This week, unionized airline workers took a creative 21st century approach. They ...READ MORE

For Lasting Salary Damage, Get Hired in a Recession

New grads entering the job market have come to expect that during touch economic times -- like the present -- they may have to settle for a lower salary to get a job. But that flexibility may result in income damage that could take ...READ MORE

Salary Men

The San Francisco Business Times recently released a list of who they consider the most overpaid and underpaid executives in the Bay Area. Researching CEO compensation, as well as organizations' public performance, the paper came up ...READ MORE

As Recovery Simmers, Limit Lagging Layoffs with Flexible Downsizing (Not Just Furloughs)

Great news... 90% of economists in a recent survey by the National Association of Business Economics predicted the recession will over by the end of 2009!  But hold the champagne.  These same economists saw unemployment rising as ...READ MORE

Pay Cuts Like a (Butter) Knife

According to a recent CollegeRecruiter survey of 1,000 college students and recent graduates, "most" job seekers are willing to accept a job offer even if the pay-per-hour for the new job is less than at their previous job. But just ...READ MORE

Layoff Payoffs

The Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy released their 10th annual CEO compensation survey earlier this week. Among the key findings in "Executive Excess 2003: CEOs Win, Workers and Taxpayers Lose": CEOs were ...READ MORE

Rules for Executive Compensation

The federal securities laws require clear, concise disclosure about compensation paid to CEOs, CFOs, and certain other high-ranking executive officers of public companies. READ MORE

CEO Pay; Outrageous -- and bad for MBA programs

Though the level of CEO pay compared to average employees is understandable, it is outrageous. CEO pay skyrocketed when companies bought into the academic idea that only shareholders interests mattter. Thus, if executives were ...READ MORE

Waging War

A certain show has been stuck in my head. Morgan Spurlock, the man behind 'Super Size Me' now has a television show on FX called '30 Days.' The series is more a group of mini-documentaries than a reality show. The first episode, ...READ MORE

“Downsizing Flexibility Champions”—Alternatives to Layoffs Honor Roll (Updated 5/29/09)

On the “Using Workplace Flexibility as Part of a Downsizing Strategy” Flex Options teleconference for the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau (transcript now available here), I announced that I was going to start a list ...READ MORE

Watercooler

What you'll be talking about this month when you talk about work.READ MORE

If You're Not Furious Over the Bank Bailout, Read This

Provisioned within the stimulus bill is a salary cap for executives of any bank that receives federal money through the TARP program. Instead of taking home millions, the top brass will be limited to $500,000 in total annual pay. ...READ MORE

Stop Incenting Executives to Act Badly!

We're all upset about the worst excesses in executive comp but why do they continue? Until now no one has connected the dots between compensation, culture and values and how comp drives behavior. This article explains how comp policies approved by boards are consistent with a company's culture and points to the levers to change behavior with values. READ MORE

Leading the Way Out of this Economic -- and Ethical -- Mess

I'm looking for any sign I can find that we're in recovery -- not only that the economy is turning around, but that the mindset that led us into this mess is shifting. I found a good one. The chief learning officer of ...READ MORE

Leading the Way Out of this Economic -- and Ethical -- Mess

I'm looking for any sign I can find that we're in recovery -- not only that the economy is turning around, but that the mindset that led us into this mess is shifting. I found a good one. The chief learning officer of ...READ MORE

Leading the Way Out of this Economic -- and Ethical -- Mess

I'm looking for any sign I can find that we're in recovery -- not only that the economy is turning around, but that the mindset that led us into this mess is shifting. I found a good one. The chief learning officer of ...READ MORE

Why the Executive Compensation Debate is Fundamentally Flawed

I sat through a very interesting presentation on the problems with executive pay and the associated comp plans being used in today’s corporations.  As I listened to the presenters very eloquent arguments, it dawned on me we are ...READ MORE