A while ago, a Sales Director asked for “an average salary for a sales/account manager in IT company selling specialty software within Europe”. I wish it were that simple but there is no such thing as a “salary in Europe”. For the same job, each country will pay different salaries. Salaries are normally always expressed…
GCC Nationals pay: a lesson from the Y2K bug
January 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Remember the big scare of the so-called “Y2K bug” ? Back at the end of the Nineties, the world started to realise that a lot of computer programs had been written with dates expressed “55” or “87” instead of “1955” and “1987”. As year 2000 was approaching fast and therefore dates would become “00” ie…
Remuneration, engagement and the GCC employee
January 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Recent reports have drawn attention to the fact that remuneration is not the main motivator for GCC-based employees. The Qudrat TM Research results were recently released by Aon Hewitt and highlight that National Qataris are the most highly engaged local Nationals in the GCC, irrespective of their gender. Regarding issues often mentioned by companies regarding…
Merit increase or bonus, how do you reward performance ?
January 3, 2012 by 4 Comments
Welcome back to Compensation Insider ! I wish you an excellent year and hope you will be visiting my site regularly 🙂 Given we are at the beginning of the year and most HR and Compensation experts are about to go through salary reviews and bonus payments, I thought it would be relevant to share…
The safeguards in salary benchmarking
December 20, 2011 by 3 Comments
Here is a paraphrase of a LinkedIn question asked recently : “How do you make sure each role benchmarked for salary purposes has the same responsibility ? Is there legislation on this ?” This is a question a Compensation specialist often gets from managers. Here is what you can reply when you get that question…
Pay transparency for all employees in some US government entities
December 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey publishes the salaries of its 6,777 employees on its website. The decision came after some criticism about how public money is spent and some controversy about payroll in this organisation. When I read this article, I have to admit being impressed by the level of transparency…
