Category: Pay Structure
“Job for Life” Mindset – Could it Make a Comeback in 2025?
Sarah Lardner | 20 March 2025
Job Levelling | HR Technology | Pay Structure
Anyone who’s seen the data from the recent study by LinkedIn and Microsoft may be wondering whether I’ve mis-typed this headline, but please bear with me.
Brace Yourselves: Reward Storm Incoming
Cathryn Edmondson | 28 February 2025
Pay & Reward | Pay Structure | Pay benchmarking | Reward | Employee Benefits
In even the most optimistic assessment of the current situation, it is hard to foresee a situation where a substantial portion of workers are not left underwhelmed by their pay offers in 2025.
Business services roles in Law – helping firms value the undervalued
Justine Woolf | 03 October 2024
Evaluate | Pay Structure | Job evaluation
Historically and perhaps understandably, much of the focus in law firms has been on fee-earning roles. It has been more of a challenge for HR departments to implement formal reward structures for Business Services roles. Now, though, this whole area is being driven up the agenda by challenges in recruitment and retention as well as legislative and social pressures.
Innovating with pay strategies – thinking outside the box when under inflationary pressure
Cathryn Edmondson | 01 June 2023
Pay Fairness | Pay Progression | Pay Structure
In the absence of inflation-busting pay rises to match the cost-of-living crisis, most companies are having to get creative. Rather than focus solely on pay, we are encouraging our clients to review their core principles around reward and look broader at benefits, ways of working and culture, which I’m boiling down into four Fs: fairness, flexibility, future-proofing and friendship.
11 Steps to boost your Sales Incentive Scheme
Sarah Lardner | 26 May 2023
For a sales team to perform and achieve at an optimum level, it needs three things: a well-designed sales plan; data and insights for forecasting, planning, and aligning their efforts to the business’s goals; and the tools to enable performance (training, environment, culture and CRM systems). Too often we see bonus schemes that are over-engineered, hard to understand and ultimately demotivating, so how can you review your current plans?
Three essential areas to address around pay gaps and equality
02 September 2022
Equal Pay | Equal Pay Audits | Pay Structure | Pay benchmarking | Job evaluation | Pay Review
Instances of unequal pay can manifest all too easily, but they can also be guarded against by putting checks and balances in place and maintaining those with regular auditing. My three main areas to focus on when considering pay gaps and inequality are pay structures, annual pay review and pay policy.
How to provide adjustments without breaking existing pay structures
14 July 2022
Pay & Reward | Pay Structure | Pay Review | Reward | Pay Data | Cost of Living
Linkedin is an extremely powerful tool for engagement but it is creating new headaches for employers already struggling in a tricky market.
What is base pay in your organisation?
29 April 2022
Pay Fairness | Pay & Reward | Pay Structure | Pay Review
There are many ways to manage a pay review budget and approach pay progression. However, before we start thinking about the pros and cons of those different approaches, it is important first to be clear about what Base Pay is for in your organisation.
Location-based pay frameworks: where do we go from here?
04 November 2021
Pay & Reward | Pay framework | Flexible working | Global talent | Pay Structure | Remote Working
Traditionally, many organisations have had regional-based pay frameworks, and home-based workers were more likely to have a national reference point for pay, but what about now, when the pandemic has firmly thrust the idea of home-based working into a reality? Justine Woolf explores the potential future of location-based pay frameworks.
Give your pay bands a bit of TLC
02 October 2020
Pay & Reward | Pay framework | Pay Structure | Pay Review
When was the last time you took a closer look at your pay bands? Pay bands can be viewed as the engine that drives pay decisions, but all too often they only get an annual MOT at pay review - perhaps it is time to look under the bonnet and give pay bands a bit more TLC.
What got you here, won't get you there - an open letter to HR
29 July 2020
Reward Intelligence | Pay & Reward | Pay Structure | Reward Strategy | Productivity
The first in our series of open letters to HR, Sarah Lardner discusses how HR leaders in well-established organisations need to be looking at the journey ahead, to make the business irresistable to talented employees and to stand out amongst competitors.
Reshaping your organisation to achieve your desired results
17 June 2020
Organisational Design | Pay Structure
Taking the opportunity to reshape your organisation is something that many businesses are considering right now, and certainly for many it will be an unfortunate necessity due to pandemic-related reduced income meaning that it is no longer feasible to carry the staff overheads they previously could. But where is the best place to start?
