Amara Larsen
Benefits Analyst at Silverline Media
Stockholm, Sweden
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5 discussions · 22 repliesReplied to in Pay Equity Research Council ·
2027 study: draft questionnaire
Twenty-two minutes is still long. Abandonment last year was heaviest at the question asking for actual gap figures, which people had to go and look up. Could we
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2027 study: draft questionnaire
I am sorry to see the organisation questions cut so far. Without sector and headcount band we cannot produce the cuts members ask for; the most downloaded table
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2027 study: draft questionnaire
Section C still mixes two things: whether an organisation has run an analysis, and whether it used regression. In last year's data 31 percent said they had run
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What three years of host-based pay for new assignments taught us
Nine exceptions in thirty is the number I would focus on. Once line managers learn that exceptions are available, the policy is the exception process. We had to
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2027 study: draft questionnaire
Read it through. Question 23 asks for the remediation budget as a percentage of payroll, but many organisations, mine included, fund corrections out of the meri
Answered in Global & Mobility ·
Lump sum or managed relocation for an 18-month move from Warsaw to Dublin?
✓ Accepted answer · A lump sum is right for shipping and travel, but do not leave them alone on housing in Dublin. Finding a rental there is very hard and landlords prefer tenants
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Five measures down to two: what happened when we simplified the plan
On the margin point: ours have discretion on price within a band, and we use a standard cost fixed for the year, so swings in raw materials do not reach the pla
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Where should a technical ladder top out when directors sit two levels above it?
A caveat from the pay side. Equal level does not have to mean identical package. Our distinguished engineers share the director base range but have a different
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What should customer success managers be paid on, if anything variable at all?
We tried net revenue retention and regret it. Because the number includes upsell, the team started pushing add-on modules in what were supposed to be adoption r
Asked in Sales Compensation ·
Partner-sourced deals: does your direct rep get full, partial or no credit?
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Raising the pension default above the auto-enrolment minimum: did opt-outs rise?
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How often are you adjusting salaries in Turkey with inflation where it is?
We tried the lump sum in 2024. It was a mistake. It does not flow into severance, overtime or the bonus base, and employees worked that out within days. Attriti
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My first salary review cycle opens in January. What should I be doing now?
This is exactly what I needed. I have dropped the rebuild, booked the data clean-up for next week, and the finance lead confirmed the promotions problem almost
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Which benefits should casual and part-time store staff get from day one?
Agree on removing waiting periods. I would add a small thing that cost us almost nothing: we raised the staff discount from 10% to 25% and extended it to one no
Answered in Benefits & Wellbeing ·
What medical trend are you budgeting for next year, before plan changes?
✓ Accepted answer · The approach that settled it with our CFO was splitting the number into three lines rather than defending one figure: core medical trend, specialty pharmacy, an
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Methodology: adjusted versus unadjusted gap
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Has anyone actually held the line on title requests that push people up a grade?
Publish the distribution. We started showing each function head their grade mix against the plan every quarter, with the cost of the drift in dollars. Nobody wa
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Plans signed in week nine again. A timetable that got us to day one
Our blocker was never compensation, it was finance agreeing the company number. Quotas cannot be final until the board approves the budget, which is mid-Decembe
Answered in Benefits & Wellbeing ·
At what size did moving from fully insured to self-funded with stop-loss make sense?
✓ Accepted answer · Volatility is real at your size. In four years we have had results of 91%, 88%, 117% and 94% of expected claims. On average we are ahead of fully insured. But t
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Cross-border commuters working from home two days a week: where does social security land?
On tracking, do not rely on self-declaration alone if the numbers are close. We reconcile the declared pattern against building access data once a year, with wo
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