Compensation & Benefits Trends
Surveys
Participate in Culpepper’s trends
surveys and receive FREE data on how changes in the labor market
are impacting compensation and benefit programs.
Active
Surveys
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Geographic Pay Differential
Practices Survey
The Culpepper Geographic Pay Differential Practices
Survey focuses on how companies account for pay differences
between geographic locations, including eligibility by job
level, number of differentials used, how differentials are
determined, approaches used for making pay adjustments, and pay
adjustments for employees transferring from a high-paying area
to a low-paying area.
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Disability Benefits Survey
The Culpepper Disability Benefits Survey focuses on
short- and long-term disability benefits provided to U.S.
employees, including eligibility, premiums, waiting periods,
duration of coverage, payout amounts, and voluntary supplemental
insurance.
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Life Insurance Benefits
Survey
The Culpepper Group Life Insurance Benefits Survey
focuses on group life insurance provided to U.S. employees,
including eligibility, premiums, benefit amounts, accidental
death & dismemberment coverage, and voluntary supplemental
insurance.
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Long-Term Incentive and Equity
Compensation Practices
(Available Mid-November 2009)
The Culpepper Long-Term Incentive and Equity Compensation
Practices Survey focuses on long-term incentives and equity
awards, including types of plans offered, LTI mix, eligibility,
frequency of awards, vesting schedules, and performance
measures.
Recent Survey Results
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Salary Range Structure Practices
Salary structures are an
important component of effective compensation programs and help ensure
that pay levels for groups of jobs are both externally competitive and
internally equitable. Results from the
2009 Salary Range Structure Practices Survey
include market data and practices for
designing and managing base salary ranges and structures.
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Sales
Compensation Design Practices
& Trends
This Culpepper Pay Trends Survey focuses on
on sales compensation design
practices of technology and life sciences companies. We provide
market data and best practices on a variety of sales
compensation practices, including: pay mix, leverage, quotas,
performance measures, draws, sales crediting rules, minimum
performance thresholds, commission payout curves and rates,
performance bonus structures, link designs, maximum incentive
caps and payout limiters, incentive payments for service
contracts, cash profit sharing plans, long-term incentives,
special performance incentive funds, and recognition and
non-cash award programs.
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Salary
Increase Budgets for 2009 and 2010
Results from the 2009-2010
Culpepper Salary Increase Budgets Survey reveal that
companies
are
continuing to make significant changes to their salary budgets.
This year’s report includes data from 835 participating
organizations across 73
countries and 17 international geographic regions. Topics
include plans for eliminating salary freezes and reversing
salary reductions.
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Paid Time-Off Practices and Policies
Results from a recent
Culpepper Benefits Survey
on paid time-off programs reveals that some companies have
curtailed their paid time-off benefits in response to the
economic downturn. However, most companies have protected their
paid time-off benefits to help retain high-performing employees
and key talent.
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Flexible Work Arrangements:
Popular Alternatives to Enhance Benefits Programs
The
economic downturn has forced most companies to reduce
expenses and the level of benefits provided to employees. To
offset the sting from cuts to benefit programs, an
increasing number of companies are offering flexible work
arrangements to enhance work-life balance, improve morale,
and prevent the loss of valuable
employees. Results from a recent Culpepper Benefits Survey
reveal that 90 percent of companies offer one or more
flexible work arrangements to employees.
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Contributions to 401(k) Plans Decline
Contributions to 401(k) and other defined contribution
retirement plans have taken a hit
from the economic downturn. Results from a recent
Culpepper Benefits Survey on 401(k)
plans reveal that 21 percent of companies providing 401(k)
plans to U.S. employees have
either decreased the level of or eliminated employer
contributions.
Future Trends Survey
Topics
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Compensation |
Employee Benefits, Programs,
& Policies |
Skill & Certification Premiums
(Nov/Dec 2009)
On-Call Pay Practices
(Dec 2009)
Shift Differentials
(Dec 2009)
2010 Salary Budget Update Survey
(Jan 2010)
Headcount & Turnover Metrics Survey
(Q1 2010)
Hiring & Referral Bonuses
(Q1 2010)
Retention Bonuses
(Q1 2010)
Expatriate Pay Practices
(Q2 2010)
Board of Directors Pay Practices
(Q2 2010) |
Flexible Benefits (Dec 2009)
Health Plan & Medical Benefits
(Q1 2010)
Perquisites & Fringe Benefits
(Q1 2010)
Non-Cash Awards & Recognition
(Q1 2010)
Education and Training Programs
(Q2 2010) |
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