Employee Compensation


Are Your Salaries Competitive?

For clerks to controllers, here's where to find out the going rate.  Read story

Changing "comp" To Cope With The Crunch

American business found little to celebrate when the books were closed on 1980. Battered by record-high inflation and interest rates, most companies were...  Read story

Top Execs Take Home An $8,600 Raise

Double-digit inflation nibbled away at a lot of paychecks last year, but not for most of the people who run smaller companies. Instead, they actually gai...  Read story

Custom Packaging for Paychecks

Stock options. Lucrative bonuses. High starting salaries. Flextime. What kind of compensation matters most to experienced managers? There's no universal a...  Read story

What Managers Make

Insiders and outsiders alike have never been quite sure just who smaller company middle managers are, let alone how much they make. While trade groups and in...  Read story

How To Value Your Employee

Developing a formal compensation plan won't necessarily solve your personnel problems, but it will put your company on the right track.  Read story

The Take At The Top

Some good news, and some bad, about executive compensation. First, the good news is, the average CEO is taking home $76,200. The bad news is. . .  Read story

The Take At The Top

How growing companies manage the care and feeding of their key executives  Read story

Inc.'s Annual Compensation Survey

How small companies reward their key executives.  Read story

The Brave New World

The 1986 Tax Reform Act has raised new questions about virtually every compensation tool a company has  Read story

The Take at the Top

Survey compares big company CEOs' salaries to those of CEOs from growing companies.  Read story

Top Exec's Paychecks

Ernst Young chart comparing the salaries of top executives and CEOs.  Read story

Why Continuity Clubs Work

The benefits of applying the concept of continuity, club, or subscription sales to small companies.  Read story

Cost of Benefits Outpaces Compensation Growth

June 30, 2004 -- Total employee compensation is increasingly being made up of benefits like health insurance, according to a new report p...  Read story

Compensation for IT Start-Up Execs Plateaued in 2003

August 17, 2004 -- In yet another indication that industries spawned by the "New Economy" have completely returned to pre-"bubble" fundam...  Read story

CEO Pay Too High?

A survey shows more U.S. business executives feel bosses are overpaid and underperforming.  Read story

Starting Salaries Decline

A study finds some new hires are making up to $10,000 less than a month ago.  Read story

Paycheck Gains Smaller Than Expected

Budgets for salary increases have fallen below four percent, the Conference Board reports.  Read story

Private Firms Slashing CEO Pay

With turmoil on Wall Street, employers are reining in top-level salaries, a survey finds.  Read story

Executives Getting Paid Less

With the economy tanking, more companies are cutting top-level wages and stock options, a survey finds.  Read story

The Right Way to Pay

After decades of paying employees in the same old way, cutting-edge CEOs are solving their worst compensation problems by adding one critical factor: risk.  Read story

Jack Stack on Paying for Performance

Jack Stack is President of SRC Holding Corp. and co-author of The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome .  Read story

What's Fair Pay for Your CEO?

Q: "Our board's Compensation Committee is at work on the annual exercise of putting together the CEO's pay package, and as usual, I feel...  Read story

Executive Compensation May Need a Boost

While the media have been blasting companies for excessive executive compensation, results of a study in Michigan indicate that executive pay hasn't kept ...  Read story

Compensation

Compensation is not the cut-and-dry subject it used to be. Once you had to worry only about an employee's base salary or, at most, a b...  Read story

Compensation

Compensation is not the cut-and-dry subject it used to be. Once you had to worry only about an employee's base salary or, at most, a ba...  Read story

Hotline

Look for higher executive salaries once companies adjust to Section 89 of the Tax Reform Act. Under Section 89, which goes into effect next January, comp...  Read story

Executive Compensation 1989

How CEOs evaluate, review, and reward their key managers and employees.  Read story

Fine-Tuning Your Bonus Plan

How does the bonus committee at Commercial Casework revise the company's annual bonus plan so quickly and efficiently? They simply tweak the answers to th...  Read story

Correction

A chart in "INC.'s Annual Compensation Survey," (September, page 52) incorrectly shows executive compensation by company revenue. The revenue ranges "$5 ...  Read story

Compensation: Bonuses That Make Sense

A CEO explains his system of awarding bonuses that are based on trust and communications.  Read story

Fewer Workers Getting a Raise

A survey finds payroll budget increases are unchanged from last year.  Read story

The Unkindest Cut of All

How one company's founders have gone about cutting their own pay to help their business stay afloat.  Read story

Salary Expectations Lower

The weaker economy has jobseekers settling for less, a survey finds.  Read story

Selling: Paying Inc. 500 Sales VIPs

Three Inc 500 CEOs explain how they set up compensation strategies to achieve long-term sales goals.  Read story

Survey Results

THE CEO. . . A profile of the typical chief executive officer Total compensation $96,811 Base salary ...  Read story

Hitting Pay Dirt

At small, fast-growing businesses, where so much rides on key salespeople, it's important to set up a compensation strategy that helps achieve lon...  Read story

HR Policies of the Inc. 500

Percentage of companies that offer Flextime  69% Job sharing  22% Telecommu...  Read story

Do Your Employees Qualify for Overtime?

The answer may surprise you.  Read story

How Can My Employees Pay for Medical Coverage on a Pretax Basis?

Q: I have a small business and can't afford to pay for my employees' medical coverage. I've heard there's a way that my employees can pa...  Read story