Notice of Surveys 2021 Public Employers Compensation Survey The 2021 Public Employers Compensation Survey is now available on Employers Council’s website. The 2021 edition of the survey...
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Benefit Trends to Watch in 2021
Even though the year 2020 has come and gone, it continues to teach us new ways of approaching the Human Resource function. The lessons we...
2021 State Minimum Wage Updates
Arizona The Industrial Commission of Arizona (ICA) has adopted a resolution increasing Arizona's minimum wage from $12.00 per hour to $12.15 per hour effective January 1,...
What Are Your Compensation Plans? Fill Out Our Questionnaire and See How Our Region Stacks Up Against the Nation
WorldatWork’s 47th annual Salary Budget Survey covering nearly 14 million employees from 19 countries indicates that 90 percent of organizations are maintaining salary increase budgets...
Trends in Employer Sponsored Health Plans
How does your organization’s health insurance plan compare to other employers in your area? Recent findings from Employers Council’s 2019 Health, Welfare & Retirement Plans...
Compensation Systems Pitfalls and Problems
Salary can be one of the most contentious topics HR helps managers deal with. Many managers are not comfortable with questions from employees about salaries....
Are Your Employees Staying or Leaving? Trends in Turnover from the 2019 HR Metrics Survey
Turnover rates are on the rise according to Employers Council’s recently published 2019 HR Metrics Survey covering employers in Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. The...
Tools for Managing Conflict
Conflict is everywhere: with our spouses, with our children, with our home-repair contractors, and with our employees. You can’t escape it; you can only adapt. Fortunately,...
Public-Sector Employers Are Using Compensation Surveys Better to be Smarter
Compensation for the public sector is getting trickier. For many years, the public sector paid less but provided excellent retirement benefits to compensate. So good...
Utah’s Gender Pay Gap
Utah women earn 73 percent of what men earn, putting the state’s gender wage gap at 49th place, with only Louisiana’s worse. Many factors cause...