Entries by Blair Johanson
Resurgence of Job Valuing with Renewed Emphasis on Pay Equity and Comparable Worth by Biden Administration
Jenny Yang was appointed as the new Director for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs on January 20, 2021 by President Biden’s administration. Since this appointment does not require Senate confirmation, it went into effect immediately. This move will require federal contractors to increase pay equity awareness and enforcement based on Director Yang’s Equal […]
Projected Employee Salary Increases for 2021
Based on annual pay increase studies released by WorldatWork, Willis Towers Watson and Salary.com earlier this year, the average salary increase budgets will range between 2.8% and 3.0%. Stephen Miller, CEBS published and released a SHRM article on September 3, 2020 titled, “Salary Increase Budgets Decline for First Time in 12 Years.” The Willis Towers […]
When Job Matching Becomes a Burden
Recently, we had a discussion with a potential client via a GoToMeeting online session. We were visiting with three members of the human resources team about internal job valuing and job matching with a national external salary aggregator’s software system and market pay comparisons database. One of the human resources team members mentioned how internal […]
Benefits of a Current Classification and Compensation Plan
We recently completed a classification and compensation study for a public organization where the last formal study was done over 20 years ago. With this much time between formal classification and compensation studies, the normal outlook would be that the organization’s classifications and compensation plans would be dated and needing a complete overhaul. We were […]
COVID-19 Virus Pandemic Message
We hope that you and your associates are staying safe and well during the COVID-19 Virus pandemic social distancing period and now with the various staged re-opening plans for organizations and businesses across the U.S. Both of our human resources software programs (DBDescriptions and DBCompensation) are internet hosted. We offer access to the DB Squared […]
2020 “Living Wage” and “Minimum Wage” Intersection or Roundabout?
An intersection is a point at which two or more things intersect, especially roads. (Merriam-Webster) A roundabout (also called a traffic circle, road circle, rotary, rotunda or island) is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is typically […]
PAY TRANSPARENCY (Internal Job Valuing and External Market Pay Data)
PayScale, a compensation and software firm, released a recent report titled, “Does Pay Transparency Close the Gender Wage Gap?” CEO Scott Torrey made the following statement based on the research findings related to their compensation study: “This latest research shows just how powerful transparent pay practices can be for organizations. When employers use real market […]
CDLs ARE HOT
Our public organizational clients are experiencing supply and demand issues associated with jobs that require a commercial driver’s license. The counties and cities that require CDL’s for trucking and other road operated equipment are experiencing shortages in applicants that have CDL’s. We have seen increased efforts by these public organizations to attract and retain employees […]
Exodus of Baby Boomers Helping to Fund Higher Employee Pay Adjustments
In a Forbes article titled, Baby Boomers Retiring Rapidly: Are Successors Prepared written by Maureen Metcalf, Forbes Council Member and CEO of Metcalf & Associates, she refers to research by Bonnie Hagemann and co-authors in their book “Leading with Vision” that baby boomers are leaving the workforce at a rapid rate of 10,000 per day […]