What Do All Those Comp Terms Mean Anyway?!?
Welcome to Compensation 101 where we define and give examples for those boring compensation terms we throw around all the time. You’ve heard a lot of them recently and probably experienced some of them, too, as we navigate through a volatile, often unexplainable, labor market. Let’s begin with the basics! Compensation Strategy Developing and implementing […]
What Do You Need to Pay a Non-Exempt Employee?
A recent story reported that Delta Airlines will begin paying flight attendants half-time for boarding duties, a change from the industry-standard of only paying once the doors close. Delta is implementing this change to stave off a push to unionize their flight attendants. However, it raised a critical question for many people – are there […]
Compensating Your Sales Force
By now your sales force is through the first quarter of 2022. For a lot of organizations, 2020 was a terrible sales year and 2021 brought record sales. So what will happen in 2022? Affinity HR Group doesn’t have any crystal balls, but we do have some ideas about how to be best prepared to […]
How to Survive the 2021 Labor Shortages
I’m writing this the morning of August 6, and the monthly jobs report from the USDOL has just been issued. Last month’s report was somewhat underwhelming, so this one has been eagerly awaited. It has lots of good news: The economy added over 943,000 jobs in July, well ahead of economic forecasts. The biggest gains […]
Labor Market Summary- January 2021
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