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).
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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
Compensation management software ensures fair and equitable pay by systematically analyzing compensation data to identify and address pay disparities across the organization. This allows HR teams take necessary corrective actions, ensuring fair compensation practices across diverse workforces. Paycor’s Compensation Planning enables organizations to implement transparent pay structures that help eliminate bias in compensation decisions.
Yes, modern compensation management software is well-equipped to handle complex pay structures including different salary structures, currencies, and tax implications across multiple locations while minimizing errors and inefficiencies that often occur with manual management.
Compensation management software provides a common platform for all stakeholders to input and review budgets, while built-in digital planning tools help organizations forecast future compensation expenses. Paycor’s Compensation Management solution helps leaders stay within budget, manage pay cycles, and conduct efficient approval processes, ensuring more informed decision-making for salaries bonuses, and other compensation elements.
Yes, compensation management’s scalable solutions are built to support business growth, accommodating an expanding workforce and increasingly complex data sets. Modern systems are future-proofed to grow with the organization, and as businesses grow, the software scales with them, allowing companies to adapt quickly to changing workforce needs.
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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