Liam Silva
Reward Partner at Northwind Logistics
Hong Kong
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Every rep keeps a shadow spreadsheet. I think that is our failure, not theirs
We ask about it directly in an annual survey: how many hours a month do you spend checking your pay? The answer was 3.4 hours on average when we started, across
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Off-cycle increases: who approves them where you work, and is there a hard cap?
Whatever you design, add a quarterly report by approver. Ours showed that three leaders accounted for 40% of all off-cycle spend. That one page did more than th
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Office manager at a 90-person games studio in Wellington, now also the pay person
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My first salary review cycle opens in January. What should I be doing now?
Small thing that matters: decide now who approves exceptions and write it down. If it is unclear in January, every exception will come to you.
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A strong candidate in Colombia and no entity there. Contractor or employer of record?
Add one question to that list: at what headcount will you set up your own entity? Ours was five in a country. Without a number, you wake up with 30 people on so
Answered in New Member Welcome ·
How did you fit studying for the credential around a full-time job?
✓ Accepted answer · About five hours a week for six weeks per exam was what I sustained, in four slots: three 45-minute early mornings and one longer session at the weekend. Anythi
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What would you read in your first three months in compensation?
✓ Accepted answer · Three things, in this order. First, any standard textbook on base pay, but only the chapters on job evaluation, market pricing and range design; skip the rest f
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