Compensation Management Software
Flexible Compensation Planning Solutions for HR Leaders
When it comes to compensation planning, there is no universal strategy that fits every situation. HR leaders require a solution that offers customization and flexibility to effectively recruit and reward employees, considering the various types of awards and pay options available. Speak to a representative today, call 513-338-0399.
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Top Talent Starts with an Effective Compensation Strategy
Robust Features for Any Size Business
Streamline compensation planning and automate bonuses and merit increases to drive recruitment and retention for enhanced organizational success.
Pay Benchmarking
Quickly compare your salary ranges with similar roles and industries to offer competitive and fair pay for your employees and job candidates.
Paycor Analytics Workforce Compensation
Analyze total spend, budgeted amounts, and help ensure pay equity with a comprehensive compensation breakdown, empowering you to craft effective strategies and stay informed about workforce costs.
Compensation Management
Automate tasks, streamline cycles, and drive efficiency. Foster collaboration, help ensure pay transparency, and improve retention while reducing workload and accelerating decision-making.
Why Compensation Planning is Important
A strategic compensation management plan is essential for attracting and retaining top talent, managing budgets, and helping to maintain compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). It empowers hiring managers to confidently offer competitive compensation, enables impactful development plans, and maintains fair and unbiased pay practices.
Attract & Retain Talent
Benchmark salaries against the competition and consider the complete compensation package to help retain existing talent.
Streamline & Create Efficiencies
Reduce administrative tasks and empower managers to make informed payroll decisions, while eliminating manual data entry and duplicate entries.
Help Ensure Pay Equity
Gather data to identify and address wage gaps based on gender, race, or ethnicity and help maintain compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Everything You Need,
All in One Place
Comprehensive Salary Benchmarking
Access salary benchmark data within Paycor’s unified, integrated solution for more than 10 million jobs across the U.S.
Streamline Approval Process
Comprehensive insights for employee, approver, budget, and slate data enables you to verify accuracy before finalizing.
Deep Insights
A flexible yet comprehensive employee event timeline provides decision support for managers. And the clear review process helps reduce mistakes and changes.
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Compensation Planning FAQs
HR Admins: Can configure and manage Compensation Planning events.
Managers: Options to view/complete Tasks & Notifications once the HR Administrator has assigned you a task to complete a recommendation.
Managers. When you launch a plan, the managers of any employees included in the plan will receive a task to submit recommendations.
Pay changes made through Compensation Planning will not kick off any workflows. Administrators can review all the changes before making them live.
By default, all employees in the company are included in the plan. You can select departments, specific hire dates or individual employees.
- Employee Compensation Report
- Total Compensation Report
To see reports, hover over Reporting in the Paycor platform and type compensation into the search bar.
Pay changes made through Compensation Planning will not kick off any workflows. Administrators can review all the changes before making them live.
You can select a total dollar amount per manager or a target % of employees’ salaries. You can also set reviewer guidelines to limit the range of values that a manager can enter for an employee (Minimum %, Target %, Maximum %).
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