Australian HR professionals might want to consider Switzerland as an option when choosing overseas working destinations, because, according to pay data released by Mercer, it’s the European country in which HR professionals are paid the most.

Kobiety wciąż zarabiają mniej od swoich kolegów – wynika z Ogólnopolskiego Badania Wynagrodzeń, przeprowadzonego przez firmę Sedlak & Sedlak. Płace mężczyzn były w 2009 roku o 30% wyższe niż zarobki pań. Podczas gdy kobiety otrzymywały 3 000 PLN, mediana płac ich kolegów wyniosła 3 900 PLN brutto.

A survey of Northern Irish companies has shown that a quarter of participants (27%) are planning reductions in their employee numbers in 2010, although the situation has improved since 2008/9 when staff cuts were made by as many as two-thirds (65%) of organisations in the North.

Podobnie jak w latach ubiegłych, w 2009 roku Warszawa była liderem płacowym wśród polskich miast. Mediana wynagrodzeń w stolicy wyniosła 5 200 PLN i była o 44% wyższa niż w Krakowie(3 600 PLN) i aż o 86% większa niż w Lublinie (2 800 PLN).

The Winter 2010 issue of NACE’s Salary Survey shows the overall average offer to a bachelor’s degree graduate is $48,351, down 2 percent from the average offer of $49,353 made to Class of 2009 bachelor’s degree graduates. “The dip is not surprising, given the decreased demand we’re seeing for new college graduates,” says Marilyn Mackes, NACE executive director. In August, employers responding to a NACE survey reported plans to trim their college hiring, hiring 7 percent fewer Class of 2010 grads than they hired from the Class of 2009. In addition, just 29 percent of those employers said they would increase their starting salary offers for the Class of 2010.

Rok 2009 był trudnym okresem dla polskich przedsiębiorstw. Duża presja związana z pogarszaniem się wyników finansowych spowodowała, że przedsiębiorcy zaczęli bardzo dokładnie i ostrożnie planować kolejne kroki i decyzje. Sytuacja ta dotyczy praktycznie wszystkich obszarów biznesu, także polityki wynagrodzeń. Przedstawiamy rady konsultantów firmy Sedlak & Sedlak, które mogą okazać się pomocne w zarządzaniu wynagrodzeniami w 2010 roku.

Female telecom engineers earn more than their male colleagues in some of the European countries. Belgium offers a positive gender gap of 14 percent, but women are also better off in Germany and Finland. Outside Europe we mostly see a negative gender gap for female telecom engineers, and sometimes a big one.

W 2008 roku przeciętny miesięczny koszt pracy w Polsce wyniósł 3 986,5 PLN. Szacowanana 2009 roku wysokość nakładów na pracownika to 4 177,9 PLN. Z kolei wedługprognozowanego przez Komisję Europejską wskaźnika wzrostu, koszty pracy w 2010 rokuosiągną poziom 4 169,5 PLN. Projekcja Komisji jest jednak mało realna z uwagi na staływzrost wynagrodzeń w Polsce.

With stronger economic growth projected for the Middle East in 2010, companies in the UAE are expected to offer larger pay rises than last year as they compete for talent with firms in other parts of the region. Throughout much of the world, stagnating or falling salaries have been an unwelcome result of the global financial crisis. However, while not immune to the financial downturn, the Middle East was impacted less than other areas, with studies reporting that salary growth in the region was among the highest in the world in 2009. One survey, by Hewitt Associates, found that average salaries in the Middle East climbed 6.9% last year, while a separate study by Mercer revealed that salaries in the UAE grew by an average 3.4%-5.2% during the year.

As the world emerges from the downturn, a new report by global management consultancy Hay Group finds that where there is a scarcity of senior management talent, the laws of supply and demand have outweighed the impact of the crisis on senior managers pay, leading to greater pay gaps. In terms of management spending power, the Gulf States still dominate the rankings, although Chile, Romania and Turkey are surprising hot spots for managers.

Mediana całkowitego wynagrodzenia miesięcznego brutto wyniosła w 2009 roku 3 425 PLN – wynika z danych Ogólnopolskiego Badania Wynagrodzeń, przeprowadzonego przez firmę Sedlak & Sedlak. Połowa uczestników badania zarabiała pomiędzy 2 300 PLN a 5 500 PLN.

Controversy over bankers’ bonuses raises fundamental questions, not just about the pay of senior executives, but also about the relative value of everyone’s work in society. A Bit Rich? brings an entirely new perspective to this issue, using a robust valuation method, Social Return on Investment, to quantify the social, environmental and economic impacts of six professions, looking at how each produces – or destroys – value for society. For each activity, the analysis measures the conventional economic returns, including job creation, but adds in, for example, attributable environmental degradation, and changes in well-being – either positive or negative - to individuals and communities in wider society.

Having struggled with cost-containment challenges during the past 18 months, which resulted in workforce reductions and salary freezes, more organizations are planning to grant pay increases in 2010 as the economy begins to show signs of improvement. According to Mercer’s 2009/2010 US Compensation Planning Survey Update, the number of organizations freezing salaries has declined compared to last year. While challenging economic conditions drove 30 percent of employers to freeze salaries across the board in 2009, just 14 percent are planning across-the-board freezes in 2010.

Financially rewarding employees has been put firmly on the backburner in 2009 as organisations struggle through the recession, according to a Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) survey conducted by YouGov of over 2,500 employees. Since 2008, there has been a drop of 17 percentage points in the proportion of people receiving a pay increase, falling from two-thirds (67%) to half (50%). Likewise, more employees have had a pay freeze (up from 24% in 2008 to 41% now). Yet, the proportion of employees who are satisfied with their pay rise has doubled since last year, from net+31% to net+62%*.

Wyniki sondy przeprowadzonej przez portal wynagrodzenia.pl odnośnie wysokości spodziewanych premii bożonarodzeniowych nie napawają w tym roku optymizmem. Największą liczbę (ponad 43,7%) stanowią bowiem osoby, które nie spodziewają się żadnej dodatkowej gratyfikacji czy prezentu z okazji świąt.

HR professionals in the public and voluntary sectors expect to see a dip in salary increases next year, while private sector professionals are more optimistic about their pay prospects, according to findings from this year’s Personnel Reward Survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Croner Reward, part of Wolters Kluwer.

As optimism about an economic recovery grows, companies are unlikely to continue pay freezes into next year, according to new data. Mercer’s Salary Indicator (MSI) monitors the remuneration of major United Kingdom blue chip organizations quarterly and found that in Q3 2009 76% of respondents said their firm was not considering a pay freeze in 2010. This is a significant change from Q1 and Q2 when data showed that an immediate reaction to the downturn was to reduce or freeze salary increases.

Forty-two per cent of employees who started a new job in 2009 took a pay cut compared with just 28 percent in 2008, recent research has revealed.

Trudna sytuacja ekonomiczna wpłynęła na zmniejszenie wysokości premii wypłacanych prezesom, dyrektorom i menedżerom – wynika z badania „Top Executives” przeprowadzonego przez firmę doradczą Hay Group w ponad 270 polskich przedsiębiorstwach.

Women in the United Kingdom earn up to 52% less than men, according to new research by the Fawcett Society and Unison that also found that while the average pay gap is 17.1% for the entire country, local figures vary significantly. According to the research the difference is 1.5% in some parts of London, but in West Somerset the figure stands at 52%.

Trudno znaleźć pracownika, który przyzna się do tego, że zarabia zbyt wiele. Tymczasem okazuje się, że w Stanach Zjednoczonych całkiem spora grupa osób otrzymuje kwoty znacznie przekraczające ich kompetencje, czy wykształcenie - informuje portal wynagrodzenia.pl.

With the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to publish its annual snapshot of the gap between what men and women workers are paid, the CIPD today reports evidence of employer practice and attitudes to measuring the gender pay gap in the workplace. The autumn 2009 CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook (LMO) survey, conducted by IPSOS Mori, finds that fewer than 1 in 5 (18%) private sector employers measure their gender pay gap, the vast majority, and especially smaller employers, considering this unnecessary for their business. In the public sector, where equal pay monitoring is a statutory requirement, 2 in 5 (43%) employers only complete audits to tick the necessary bureaucratic box rather than as part of an underlying effort to advance gender equality.

Even though Finnish academics are less well paid than their colleagues in some countries, two-thirds are satisfied with their academic life. This fact - and much more - arises from an international Changing Academic Profession survey of academics and their perceptions of their work. Finland is one of more than 20 countries participating in the survey and a seminar on the Finnish results, organised by the University of Tampere, was held there last month.

It's a tough time, comparatively speaking, to be a chief executive - and it's even harder if you're a woman. According to a study from the Corporate Library, women chief executives are more likely to pay for poor performance than their male counterparts.

Global growth in real wages slowed dramatically in 2008 as a result of the economic crisis and is expected to drop even further this year despite signs of a possible economic recovery, the International Labour Organization said. “The continued deterioration of real wages worldwide raises serious questions about the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early. Wage deflation deprives national economies of much needed demand and seriously affects confidence”, said Manuela Tomei, Director, ILO Conditions of Work and Employment Programme and lead author of the study.

Podatek dochodowy PIT oraz składki na ubezpieczenia społeczne to główne obciążenia dochodu każdego pracownika. Kraje europejskie wykazują pod tym względem duże zróżnicowanie.Najniższy wskaźnik opodatkowania pracy charakteryzuje takie państwa jak: Wielka Brytania,Irlandia, Malta oraz Cypr. W wymienionych krajach pracownik oddaje państwu mniej niż 30%swojego całkowitego wynagrodzenia. Na drugim biegunie pod względem opodatkowania znajdująsię Włochy, Szwecja i Belgia, gdzie podatki oraz składki na ubezpieczenia pochłaniają ponad 40%płacy zatrudnionego.

Approximately half of the companies that froze salaries and hiring in the past year now plan to unfreeze them in the next six months, according to the latest update to an ongoing series of surveys by Watson Wyatt, a leading global consulting firm. Nevertheless, employers remain concerned about their ability, both currently and in the long run, to attract and retain critical-skill employees. According to the survey, more than half (54 percent) of employers that froze salaries plan to unfreeze them within the next six months, a sharp increase from 33 percent in August and 17 percent in June. Almost half (49 percent) also plan to reverse hiring freezes at least partially in the next six months, compared with 38 percent two months ago.

Nowhere has the effect of the financial crisis been more evident than in the job market, as a number of companies, particularly in the real estate sector, have been forced to make swingeing cuts in order to deal with the fall out from the global financial crisis. Kershaw Leonard has released its annual Cost of Living report, the sixth installment of the paper. After comparing the UAE market in mid-2008 to the California gold rush of the 1800s, the Dubai-based recruitment and HR consultancy has said that the market in 2009 now resembles 'survival of the fittest'.

Technology companies in the United States have experienced greater salary freezes than other nations, according to Aon Consulting's Radford, a leading provider of compensation intelligence to the technology and life sciences industries. These U.S. organizations also have seen significant shifts in equity compensation, as underwater stock options and exchange programs soared, and companies continue to incorporate restricted stock into their programs in lieu of options.

Employees are divided in how they receive changes made to their employment deal during the recession, according to research commissioned by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC). The research surveyed over 700 UK workers who have been impacted by changes to their reward (pay, benefits and bonuses), working hours or who work for organisations that have made redundancies.

On September 25, 2009, the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management (HKIHRM) made a submission to the Legislative Council’s Bills Committee on the Minimum Wage Bill regarding the public consultation on Minimum Wage Bill (the Bill). As stated in the submission paper, the objective of the minimum-wage legislation is to provide for a minimum wage that would prohibit the payment of excessively low wages to employees. Such legislation should also be designed to minimize the loss of low-paid jobs to ensure that Hong Kong’s economic growth and competitiveness are sustained and to safeguard the employment conditions of teenagers, low-skilled workers and the elderly.

Although the gender pay gap has narrowed slightly across the board compared with last year, with the most significant improvement being in HR, there still remains a long way to go with the gap remaining widest at high levels.

The economy took a hit: So too did starting salary offers to new college graduates, according to a new report published by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). NACE’s Fall 2009 Salary Survey report shows that Class of 2009 bachelor’s degree graduates earned an average starting salary offer of $48,633—1.2 percent below the average $49,224 their Class of 2008 counterparts received.

Syzygy Consulting Group’s 2009 Pre-IPO and Private Company Total Compensation Survey reports that private companies will increase bonuses in 2010 and have also budgeted for more new hires. “In my discussions with CEO participants there is much optimism for growth in jobs and pay in 2010,” says David Broman, Syzygy’s CEO. “This follows a year when almost everyone – including CEOs – went without pay increases and had bonus pay cancelled altogether. But in 2010 the mantra is grow,” Broman reports. “Private companies are budgeting for higher bonuses in 2010, some returning to highs last seen in 2007.”

Ile miesięcznie zarabiają nauczyciele? Czy kryzys wpłynął na poziom ich wynagrodzeń? Z danych pochodzących z wyników Ogólnopolskiego Badania Wynagrodzeń, prowadzonego przez firmę Sedlak & Sedlak, wynika, że mediana płacy całkowitej na tym stanowisku w I połowie 2009 roku wyniosła 2 250 PLN. Wynagrodzenie podstawowe w tym okresie ustalono na poziomie 2 100 PLN.

While women in the United Kingdom rise to senior positions at a younger age than men, they are far less likely to hold such positions than their male colleagues are are likely to be paid less, according to figures by executive jobs Web site Experteer.

Figures, released by leading executive jobs website Experteer, paint a stark picture of sexual equality in the UK executive jobs market. According to the research whilst women attain senior positions at a younger age they are far less likely to hold such positions than their male colleagues and are likely to be paid less.

Koszty zatrudnienia ponoszone przez pracodawcę są zdecydowanie wyższe od zarobków, jakie otrzymuje pracownik. Oprócz wysokości wynagrodzenia przedsiębiorca musi uwzględniać także tzw. pozapłacowe koszty pracy - informuje portal rynekpracy.pl .

Organizations have faced unparalleled economic challenges this year and were forced to make tough decisions about their compensation and incentive plans. With the 2009 US Mercer Benchmark Database organizations can assess changes in the composition of the workforce and create competitive pay offerings to retain their top talent. The 2009 US Mercer Benchmark Database provides base pay, incentive pay and total compensation for more than 1,000 positions. Its newest feature—MBDspan—includes year-over-year comparisons by position and reports market movement, trends and employment indicators with Mercer perspective.

Coraz bardziej widoczny jest wpływ spowolnienia gospodarczego na wysokość wynagrodzeń. Pierwszą reakcją firm jesienią zeszłego roku były decyzje o zamrożeniu planowanych podwyżek oraz nie wypłacaniu premii za rok 2009. Problem wysokości wynagrodzenia w bieżącym roku najbardziej dotkliwe dotyka osób młodych poszukujących swojej pierwszej prac, choć sytuacja osób, które straciły pracę i mają kilka lat doświadczenia, też nie do końca jest zawsze taka różowa - informuje Antal International.

Większość ludzi na świecie wykonuje w pracy bardzo rutynowe, a czasem wręcz nudne czynności. Są jednak zawody, w których realizacja obowiązków to wyjątkowa przyjemność, często połączona z osobistą pasją. Co więcej, zarobki w tych profesjach pozwalają na dość wygodne, a czasem wręcz luksusowe życie - informuje portal wynagrodzenia.pl .

The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill that would allow regulators to cap or prohibit Wall Street bonuses and compensation packages for executives if such pay practices are deemed to enduce or encourage excessive financial risk-taking that could damage economic conditions.

Over 1 in 3 (39 percent) U.S. employees reports that, due to economic downturn, they either have not received a raise or that their compensation actually has decreased in 2009, according to a new poll.

The most likely danger currently facing organisations in pay terms is not that their bonus schemes are encouraging risky behaviour. Instead, almost 300 HR professionals identify poor communication of reward as the most common threat to organisational performance, in a survey commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

Nearly half of UK workers (47%) would welcome the opportunity to trade off benefits in order to increase their pay, according to a survey by Aon Consulting, a leading benefits and employee risk firm. Around 1,300 working adults across the UK were probed on the value they placed on employee benefits by being asked to choose whether they would be prepared to sacrifice some of their salary for better choice, or would prefer to give up benefits in order to increase their pay.

Według najnowszego raportu płacowego firmy Sedlak & Sedlak, dotyczącego wynagrodzeń w małych i średnich przedsiębiorstwach (10-250 osób), najlepiej opłacanym stanowiskiem jest dyrektor finansowy. Miesięczna płaca na tym stanowisku wynosi 14 000 PLN i jest o 10% wyższa niż kolejnego w rankingu dyrektora ds. logistyki (12 750 PLN). Zarobki na zbliżonym poziomie mają dyrektorzy ds. badań i rozwoju oraz dyrektorzy ds. IT.

Pay raises for US workers are expected to rebound in 2010, following a year in which many companies slashed raises in the wake of the recession, according to a new survey by Watson Wyatt, the global consulting firm.

Wynagrodzenie informatyków zmienia się nie tylko ze względu na szczebel zatrudnienia, czy zakres wykonywanych obowiązków. Jak wynika z raportu „Wynagrodzenia na stanowiskach IT w 2008 roku”, opublikowanego przez Sedlak & Sedlak, zarobki różnią się również ze względu na rodzaj firmy.

This was no time to roll over and just take what they gave you, says Ford Myers, author of 'Get the Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring'. That's partly because anyone who receives a job offer right now is clearly the best qualified for it. So many people are applying for every position that hiring managers have to comb through hundreds of résumés and interview dozens of candidates. After all that, they don't want to go back to the interview process. They want you.

Starting salary offers to the college Class of 2009 have fallen slightly compared to offers received by the Class of 2008, according to new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).