Institute for Compensation Studies™

Latest Article

• May 2013: Baseball and Thoughts on Pay Dispersion in Teams
  Can compensation get the whole team to “play ball?”

Previous Articles

• April 2013: Pay in Nonprofits
  Pay design and level when performance is not about profit
• March 2013: Valuing Employee Stock Options
  Individuals may value same form of compensation differently
• February 2013: Pay and Relative Income Within Couples
  Love, marriage and compensation
• January 2013: Presidential Pay
  Oval Office executive compensation
• December 2012: Top Athlete Pay
  Is all talent at the top earning more?
• November 2012: Economic Effects of the Minimum Wage
  Theory vs. the real world
• October 2012: How the Olympics Remind Us About Compensation
  Are third place winners happier than second?
• September 2012: CEOs off the Clock
  Signals sent by downtime of chief execs
• August 2012: Vacation as Compensation
  Paid to take a break
• July 2012: Paying Professors
  Academic freedom or job with no pay raises
• June 2012: Does Graduating in a Bad Economy Penalize Your Pay for Life?
  Long-term impact of graduating in a bad economy
• May 2012: Governance and Executive Compensation in Nonprofits
  Challenges not just for corporate boards
• April 2012: Why Do We Tip?
  Here’s a tip: everyone gives “bonus pay”
• March 2012: Massive Kinked Bonuses
  Winning the all-or-nothing payout
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  • Massive Kinked Bonuses (3:28)
• February 2012: Go Big – The Firm-Size Pay (and Pay-Mix) Effect
  Why Company Size May Matter to You
• January 2012: Nothing Lasts Forever - A Different Way to Structure Severance
  When things go awry, tapered CEO severance makes sense
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  • Tapered CEO Severance (3:06)
• December 2011: Is There Deadweight Loss in Holiday Rewards?
  Considering Economics of Cash versus Hams
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  • Inefficiency in holiday gift giving (2:30)
• November 2011: Pay System Gender Neutrality
  Gender Pay Gap
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  • November 2011: Go beyond wage and salary to build equality (2:24)
• October 2011: Does More Education Cause Higher Earnings?
  Returns to Earnings from Education
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  • October 2011: Returns to Earnings from Education (2:37)
• September 2011: Say on Pay and Compensation Design
  Year One of Say on Pay
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  • September 2011: Year One of Say on Pay (0:52)
• August 2011: Lessons in Compensation Design from the Farm
  No Simple Solutions
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  • Paying Piece Rate (1:49)
• July 2011: Linking Compensation and Job Losses During a Recession
  Questioning the Indisputable
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  • What is the impact? (2:02m)
• June 2011: Does That Pay Practice Really Have Any Impact?
  Are your pay practices performing???
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  • Which practices foster most productivity? (2:24)
• May 2011: Pay Ratios and Inequality
  Should something be done about CEO pay?
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  • May 9, 2011: "Average US Worker Pay" (1:40)
• April 2011: Pay Secrecy and relative Pay
  Should compensation be secret?
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  • April 11, 2011: "Does Pay Secrecy Matter?" (1:35)
  • April 11, 2011: "What research shows." (1:31)
• March 2011: Motivating with Efficiency Wages and Delayed Payments
  Which organizations provide optimum payment now or later?
• February 2011: The Relationship Between Company Size and CEO Pay
  If you’re after money, sail a big ship.
• January 2011: The Disconnect Between Employer Costs and Employee Value
  Most workers are unaware of their true cost to employers.