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Going further with job architecture

June 17, 2025

Your job architecture serves as the living foundation of your talent strategy. This article covers the typical indicators that will tell you when your job architecture needs a refresh and how to get started.

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Five business-centric questions to anchor your compensation planning

June 17, 2025

The key to gaining approval for your compensation programs is connecting them to the business objectives that your organization values. This article includes five questions that will help you better understand the business objectives and how you can align you company's compensation programs.

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Managing your salary structure and pay ranges with confidence

May 28, 2025

In this article, we will be discussing how to identify and measure whether your structure, ranges, and assignment of jobs to ranges might be misaligned. We will also review some common compensation formulas that you can integrate into your periodic reporting to monitor how your structure is working.

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Compensation 101: using general industry and industry-specific salary survey data

May 09, 2025

This article will provide you with considerations around when to use general industry and industry specific data –  or even when to use both!

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Actual increases in pay trend downward

April 24, 2025

Look at the results from the March 2025 Mercer QuickPulse® US Compensation Planning Survey, which included responses from over 800 employers. We’ll dive into topics like annual compensation planning, promotions, off-cycle adjustments, approaches to pay transparency, and the impact of remote work on compensation strategies.

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Handling pushback from leadership

April 11, 2025

Compensation professionals play a vital role within an organization by handling several important responsibilities related to determining pay and total rewards. It’s not uncommon for leadership and management to raise objections regarding compensation, but how can you address these challenges efficiently and effectively? Read on to discover some of the common objections as well as ways to address them with leadership.

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An in-depth guide to job analysis

March 27, 2025

This detailed job analysis guide dives into all the details on what job analysis is and how you can successfully perform one. We’ll also look at 4 different methods to performing a job analysis and 9 different questions you can ask to help you get started.

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Compensation 101: establishing a benchmark methodology unique to your organization

March 07, 2025

Are you ready to take your market pricing to the next level? Develop and implement a benchmark methodology to increase your accuracy, efficiency and consistency and be sure your job pricing is aligned with your compensation philosophy.

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