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Blogs
- 'PERA' Debuts
- 2016 Salary Increase Projections
- A Defensible Job Evaluation and Salary Administration Program
- A Little Respect
- A Tale of Two Surprises for a Banking CEO
- An Internal Rating System for Base Pay: Is it Necessary?
- Are Market Pay Aggregators Keeping Up With Job Hybrids?
- Are You Ready for the Proposed New FLSA Regulations?
- Are Your Job Descriptions Inconsistent?
- Attracting and retaining the best talent is a critical objective for companies emerging from the recession.
- Backing Up Before Going Forward
- Being Proactive Can Save Cash
- Best Practices in Compensation Management - Part 1
- Chicago Rock Band and DBCompensation
- Communication and Compensation
- Comparable Worth: Externally or Internally Decided or Both
- Compensation and Benefits Highlights
- Compensation and Performance Management Processes are Shifting
- Compensation Management - Balancing Science and Art
- COMPENSATION MANAGEMENT - Internal Job Valuing and External Market Salary Comparisons
- Compensation Management Total Solutions
- Compensation Planning
- COMPENSATION PROGRAM COMPLIANCE REACHING DOWN TO MID-SIZE EMPLOYERS
- Compensation Regression Line Reality
- Compensation Trends Today
- Concerned with Updating Your Organization's Job Descriptions?
- Count Your (Job Description and Compensation) Blessings!
- Create Job Descriptions In Minutes!
- DB Compensation Training Session
- DBC 7.0 Compensation Management Software - Final Testing
- DBCompensation 7.0 New Features and Major Enhancements
- DBCompensation New Release Functionality - Salary Grade Structure
- DBCompensation Software Updates Coming Soon!
- DBDescriptions was well received at the WorldAtWork Conference in Philadelphia
- DBSquared & HRsoft Form a New Strategic Partnership
- DBSquared Periodically Presents Webinars about Compenation Matters on HR.com
- DBSquared: The Story of Us...
- Defending Policy Pay Decisions
- Defining Value - Part 1
- Defining Value - Part II
- Delivering automated solutions as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model is a direction that many organizations are moving towards.
- Detailed and Accurate Job Descriptions are Imperative
- Does It Take a Long Time to Create Your Job Descriptions?
- Does Structure Really Hamper Effective Pay Decisions?
- Doing the Same Job? Get the Same Pay!
- Doing the Stroll
- Don't Sell - Recommend!
- Don't Sell A Recommendation
- Effective Compensation Systems
- Effective Wage - Hour Compliance
- Employers to Have a Harder Time Attracting and Retaining Top Talent
- Equal Pay - Next Level of Definition and Interpretation
- EQUAL PAY Focus by DOL, EEOC and OFCCP
- Executive Compensation
- EXEMPT OR NON-EXEMPT? A potentially costly question under the FLSA Exempt Tests!
- Exempt or Non-Exempt? That is the Question.
- FLSA Overtime Rules Out Soon: Be Proactive and Ahead of the Curve!
- For Consultants Only?
- Gaining the Engineer’s Approval: Job Classification and Compensation
- Get me to 100% like everyone else!
- Get Your Pay Right and Use an HR Software System That Pays For Itself
- Getting Pay Right
- Happy New Year = New Jobs
- Hiring and Pay Discrimination Settlements Increasing - Says OFCCP
- How Firm Is Your Base?
- How Important is Being Equitable?
- How Important Is Total Rewards Philosophy?
- HR Best Practices - Position Analysis
- HR Conference Schedule for 2012
- HR Software and its Value
- HR Technology 2011 Conference - Las Vegas from Oct 3-5th.
- I Guess If It Was Easy, Management Could Do It
- I Like “AND” better than “OR” for Compensation Planning
- Important Compensation Items
- Institute for Human Resources' virtual event
- Internal Rating System and External Market Pay Comparisons for Compensation Management Program
- Invest in Compliance
- Is Comparable Worth/Pay Equity Gaining in Momentum?
- Is Your Compensation Program Complicated and Time-Consuming?
- Is Your HR Compensation Software Unaffordable?
- Is Your Job Description Software Unaffordable?
- Is Your Organization Struggling With Job Valuing?
- It's Time To Prioritize Compensation
- Job Valuing is Regaining Velocity
- Job Worth: Who, What, When, Where and How?
- Major enhancements and new functionality for DBCompensation software
- Managing Compensation: Now Is The Time
- Market Data Only - Really? Utilize Job Valuing.
- Merry Christmas from DB Squared!
- Missouri SHRM conference at Osage Beach.
- More Surveys Needed Please
- More Time for Internal Job Valuing and Exempt and Non-Exempt Status Reviews - FLSA Overtime Rule Appeal Delayed Until May 1st
- Navigating Compensation: Accurately Map Your Latitude and Longitude
- New Comp Planning Software Launched for Mid-Size Companies
- Ongoing series discussing the elements of compensation management best practices; Position Analysis.
- Overtime Rule To Be Released Soon
- Pay Decisions - Increasing Complexity
- Pay Discrimination - Pay me NOW or LATER.
- Pay Equity Position Statement Provided by WorldatWork Compensation Experts
- Pay Structures and Employee Pay Adjustments: What is the Confusion?
- Pay Transparency, Closing the Pay Gap and Multiple Regression Analysis
- Performance Appraisals: PAINFUL to JOYFUL
- Performance Management Appraisals “Pass or Fail”
- Performance Management- Big HR Theme for 2016
- Performance-Based Compensation is Alive and Thriving!
- Preparing for Recovery
- Removing the “I HATE” statement from Developing Job Descriptions
- Salary ranges are necessary to guide pay at organizations.
- Sell? Don’t Sell? How About: What to Sell?
- Selling The Problem Not The Solution
- Should a Compensation Structure be Proactive or Reactive?
- Show Me The Money!
- So what is the big difference between salary planning and budgeting and compensation management planning?
- Staying Competitive Post Recession
- Steady As She Goes!
- Take the Time to Write Job Descriptions - It's Worth the Effort
- The Management of Comp. Management
- The Paycheck Fairness Act has already been passed through the U.S. House, now it is lingering in the Senate.
- The Real Value of 'Hybrid'
- The solution to a problem that poses many questions is critical.
- The Year of Current Job Descriptions
- This Job Evaluation Process is a Pain but I Love It!
- Tis The Season
- Tis The Season (2011)
- Total Rewards Menu is Expanding with Tangible and Intangible Offerings
- Total Rewards Philosophy Statement
- Unemployment Benefits: A Disaster Waiting to Happen or Helpful?
- Welcome to our Job Description World!
- Well, PayScale and Glassdoor indicate that my annual pay should be $80,000!
- What Am I Worth?
- What Are You Worth?
- What Is DBCompensation?
- What Is DBDescriptions?
- What is My Worth to the Organization?
- What is the specific job your customers are hiring you to do?
- What Worth Really Means
- When Developing Employee Pay Plans, Read the Fine Print
- Where is HR the Gap? - Talent Retention
- Whos your Competition? The #1 Question at WorldatWork 2014
- Why Use External Pay Survey Data?
- Will Market Based Only Salary Structures Survive Regulatory Reviews and Scrutiny?
- Work Life Balance and Pay
- Working on DBCompensation 8
- WorldatWork 2015 Conference Exhibit Hall Vendors Offer the Three New R’s
eNewsletters
- Compensation and Benefits Highlights from the 2017 Annual Surveys Completed by Johanson Group - September 2017
- Executive Compensation - September 2017
- New Comp Planning Software Launched for Mid-Size Companies - August 2017
- Get me to 100% like everyone else! - July 2017
- DB Squared & HRsoft Form a New Strategic Partnership - June 2017
- Well, PayScale and Glassdoor indicate that my annual pay should be $80,000! - May 2017
- Compensation and Performance Management Processes are Shifting - April 2017
- Pay Equity Position Statement Provided by WorldatWork Compensation Experts - April 2017
- Employers to Have a Harder Time Attracting and Retaining Top Talent - March 2017
- More Time for Internal Job Valuing and Exempt and Non-Exempt Status Reviews - March 2017
- Doing The Same Job? Get The Same Pay! - February 2017
- Will The Trump Administration Take The Gas Off Of Equal Pay Legislation In 2017 - January 2017
- Is Comparable Worth/Pay Equity Gaining in Momentum? - December 2016
- Get Your Pay Right and Use an HR Software System That Pays For Itself - November 2016
- Will Market Based Only Salary Structures Survive Regulatory Reviews and Scrutiny? - October 2016
- Market Data Only - Really? Utilize Job Valuing - September 2016
- Proper Job Description and Classification Will Save Your Bacon Regarding the DOL’s New Overtime Exempt Rules - August 2016
- Equal Pay - Next Level of Definition and Interpretation - July 2016
- What is my worth to the organization? - June 2016
- Performance Management - Big HR Theme for 2016 - May 2016
- Overtime Rule To Be Released Soon - April 2016
- Performance Management Appraisals “Pass or Fail” - March 2016
- Getting Pay Right - February 2016
- COMPENSATION MANAGEMENT Internal Job Valuing and External Market Salary Comparisons - January 2016
- Show Me the Money! - December 2015
- Job Valuing is Regaining Velocity - November 2015
- DBCompensation Software Updates Coming Soon! - October 2015
- Will Employee Performance Appraisals Transition from PAINFUL to JOYFUL? - September 2015
- STEADY AS SHE GOES! - August 2015
- FLSA Overtime Rules Out Soon: Be Proactive and Ahead of the Curve! - July 2015
- WorldatWork 2015 Conference Exhibit Hall Vendors Offer the Three New R’s - June 2015
- Chicago Rock Band and DBCompensation - May 2015
- Gaining the Engineer’s Approval - April 2015
- PAY DECISIONS - INCREASING COMPLEXITY - March 2015
- Are you ready for the proposed new FLSA Regulations? - February 2015
- HAPPY NEW YEAR - NEW JOBS IN 2015 - January 2015
- Count Your (Job Descriptions and Compensation) Blessings! - December 2014
- Backing-up Before Going Forward - November 2014
- Important Compensation Items - October 2014
- This Job Evaluation Process is a Pain but I Love It! - September 2014
- Establishing a Compensation Structure: Proactive or Reactive - August 2014
- Comparable Worth: Externally or Internally Decided or Both - July 2014
- Who’s your Competition? The #1 Question asked at the 2014 WorldatWork Conference! - June 2014
- Welcome to our Job Description World! - May 2014
- Why Use External Pay Survey Data? - April 2014
- Effective Wage-Hour Compliance - March 2014
- Job Worth:Who, What, When, Where and How? - February 2014
- I Like "AND" better than "OR" for Compensation Planning. - January 2014
- Performance-Based Compensation is Alive and Thriving! - December 2013
- Compensation Planning for 2014 - November 2013
- EXEMPT OR NON-EXEMPT? - October 2013
- OFCCP is Poised for Aggressive Enforcement of Pay Discrimination. - September 2013
- What Is The Specific Job Your Customers Are Hiring You To Do? - August 2013
- More Surveys Needed Please - July 2013
- Compensation Regression Line Reality - June 2013
- DBDescriptions was well received at the World at Work Conference in Philadelphia, PA. - May 2013
- Will Market Based Only Salary Structures Survive Regulatory Reviews and Scrutiny? - April 2013
- DBDescriptions Close to 8,000 Jobs! - March 2013
- DBCompensation Training Session - February 2013
- Working on DBCompensation 8 - January 2013
- Merry Christmas! - December 2012
- Job Description Software - November 2012
- Are Market Pay Aggregators Keeping Up With Job Hybrids? - October 2012
- Job Descriptions in Minutes - September 2012
- New Webinars - August 2012
- PERA Debuts - July 2012
- Institute for Human Resources' virtual event - June 2012
- Our New Video - April 2012
- Conference Schedule for 2012 - February 2012
- DBCompensation 7 - January 2012
- HR Technology Winner - November 2011
- HR Technology Show - September 2011
- Blogging, Blogging, and more Blogging - August 2011
- Best Practices - Position Analysis - July 2011
- Meeting Clients - June 2011
- Online with HR.com - June 2011
- WorldatWork - Total Rewards 2011 Conference - May 2011
- Solutions or Answers? - May 2011
- The Real Value of 'Hybrid' - March 2011
- A Tale of Two Surprises for a Banking CEO - February 2011
- Does Structure Really Hamper Effective Pay Decisions? - January 2011
- Pay Structures and Employee Pay Adjustments - December 2010
- Point-Factor Analysis - November 2010
- Human Resources Technology - October 2010
- Work Life Balance and Pay - September 2010
- The Paycheck Fairness Act - August 2010
- Salary Range Boundaries - July 2010
- Unemployment Benefits: A Disaster Waiting to Happen? - June 2010
- The Paycheck Fairness Act - May 2010
- Reliable Market Data: Does it Still Exist and Where? - April 2010
- An Internal Rating System for Base Pay: Is it Necessary? - March 2010
- Salary Planning & Budgeting vs. Comp Mgmt Planning - February 2010
White Papers
- Job Descriptions Compliance Heightens with Proposed DOL FLSA Regulations - December 2015
- The CASE for JOB EVALUATION - December 2015
- The HR guide to a compliant, equitable & competitive compensation program - November 2015
- Will Market Based Only Salary Structures Survive Regulatory Reviews and Scrutiny? - March 2013
- Retaining Top Performers in the Workplace - November 2012
- Narrowing and Validating the Grey Zone - August 2012
- Executive Compensation - July 2012
- Mapping your Latitude and Longitude Coordinates with Compensation - April 2012
- B2B Compensation Management Best Practices - November 2011
- Job Descriptions Beginning or End of Value Discussion - August 2011
- Total Solution 2 - May 2011
- Best Practices - April 2011
- Market Pricing versus Job Evaluation - March 2011
- Bank CEO Receives Examiner Surprise - February 2011
- Compliance Cost and Value - February 2011
- Common Misconception - January 2011
- Confusion Between Pay Structures and Employee Pay Adjustments - December 2010
- Point-factor Analysis - November 2010
- Human Resources Technology Coming of Age Article - October 2010
- Salary Range Boundaries - July 2010
- Reliable Market Data - Does It Exist and Where? - April 2010
- Salary Planning & Budgeting vs. Compensation Management Planning - January 2010
- Compensation & Classification: The Shift towards Automation - November 2009
- An Internal Rating System for Base Pay - October 2009
- Best Practices in Compensation Management - October 2009
- Creating ADA Compliant Job Descriptions - October 2009
Case Studies
- J.B. Hunt Transport - January 2010
- First Federal Bank - December 2009
- The City of Springdale - December 2009
News Articles
Press Releases
- Release of DBCompensation 8.0 - January 2014
- Press Release - World at Work - May 2011
- Press Release - DBDescriptions Promotion - October 2010
- Press Release - DBCompensation Hosted - July 2010
- Revised Press Release - Market Data - April 2010
- DBSquared Continues to Cut Costs for Their Automated Human Resources Solutions - February 2010
- DBSquared Responds to Fair Pay Legislation with Updates to Compensation Management Software - November 2009
- DBSquared Offers Automated System For ADA-Compliant Job Descriptions - October 2009