The Top 6 Compensation Articles of 2016

1/9/2017
Stephen Miller

From salary budget forecasts to the rise of ratingsless reviews, these six articles on pay topics were some of the most-read all year on SHRM Online. They describe developments and trends that will have a continuing impact in 2017:

Salary Budget Expected to Rise 3% in 2017
Despite some signs of labor market tightening, compensation managers expect their base pay budgets for next year to increase by only about 3 percent, little changed from the past two years. But keep an eye out for faster—or slower—than expected economic growth, which could alter these predictions.

Study: Beware 'Toxic' Influence of Low-Performers
Organizations are falling short when it comes to rewarding and retaining high-performing employees—those who are self-motivated and hardworking. Worse, companies that don't deal with "toxic" low-performers risk weakening their culture and driving away their best people.

Undoing Overtime Pay Changes Could Be Tricky
Some workers welcome being paid for overtime hours worked; others felt demoted when told that they would be paid hourly. For employees who like their change to nonexempt status, it might be worthwhile to keep it in place, even though the Department of Labor's new overtime rule raising the salary limit has been put on hold. But if employees felt demeaned by being reclassified as nonexempt, consider reverting them back to exempt status, an employee relations expert advised.

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