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Artificial Intelligence and Compensation Strategies – Spring 2026

Discover how organizations are changing their strategies when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) in compensation.

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Short-Term Incentive Compensation Trends

During the pre-pandemic era, short-term incentive compensation at target was growing throughout businesses in the market...

How to Design a Job Evaluation Program

Learn about job evaluation, which is an essential management tool used to achieve a fair and equitable framework to alig...

Common Compensation Terms and Formulas - Updated January 2021

ERI Economic Research Institute is pleased to provide definitions of commonly used compensation terms and formulas for y...

How to Set Competitive Compensation Structures

This white paper serves as a resource for creating a well-designed salary structures that have compensation levels that...

How to Design a Competitive Salary Structure

A competitive salary structure should be based on a well-designed Compensation Strategy that is thoughtfully linked to a...

How to Design an Annual Incentive Plan

An effective annual incentive plan will motivate plan participants to ensure the accomplishment of individual, team, bus...

Geographic Pay Differentials in Practice

ERI’s survey data is used here to present existing implementation trends to achieve logical and competitive geographic...

How to Develop an Organization Pay Policy

Use this guide to develop an organization pay policy for decisions that set competitive and reasonable pay ranges for ea...

A CEO's Guide: How to Implement Performance-Driven Pay

As the CEO of a business, it is important to provide direction on the role compensation will play within your business....

how to conduct a job evaluation

How to Conduct a Job Evaluation

Why and how would you want to develop job evaluations? With the stiff competition for talent, a key differentiator for e...

conducting a pay equity analysis

Conducting a Pay Equity Analysis

Pay equity legislation at the city, county, state, and federal jurisdictions, as well as across the globe, has increased...

Stretching Your 2019 Salary Increase Budget

In today’s environment of limited salary increase budgets, some companies are taking more creative approaches to stret...