tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251721842024-11-01T02:05:31.397-07:00<a href="http://www.nextcomp.net/gamma/index.aspx">NEXTCOMP.NET</a> <br> Market Pricing Simplified <br><br> My name is Matt Johnson, President of NEXTCOMP.NET. We help simplify market pricing and salary planning for some of the best loved organizations in the world, including: <br> <ul> <li>Getty Images</li> <li>Harvard University</li> <li>Nintendo of America</li> <li>and many more.</li> </ul>Matt Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16831778965567677321noreply@blogger.comBlogger232125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25172184.post-3897486349236498732015-05-27T09:03:00.001-07:002015-05-27T09:03:12.523-07:00

It's Wednesday after Memorial Day and it's cloudy and rainy here in North Bend. I could use a pick me up. Sure, I have my coffee, but this is more of a spiritual pick me up. "The Power of Good Morning" is a TEDxKirkland talk by Ali Ghambari. I've known Ali for over 15 years. When I had my office in Pioneer Square I would go to Cherry Street Coffee House almost everyday and Ali was always

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I just ran across this tonight and I have a vague recollection of seeing this many (many) years ago. It's so incredibly well done. I feel very small after watching it. The universe is truly amazing. Charles and Ray Eames' seminal Powers of Ten video&nbsp;

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I wanted to let you know that the Northwest Compensation and Rewards Forum (NCRF) in conjunction with the Columbia-Willamette Compensation Group (CWCG) is presenting a one-day three track Total Rewards, Compensation, and Benefits conference entitled Rewards NW. Full disclosure: I'm the 2014/2015 NCRF Board President, I'm also presenting at the conference and NEXTCOMP.NET is a sponsor!

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Styles change on the web just like they do in fashion. Just maybe not as quickly. The www.nextcomp.net&nbsp;public website was starting to look a bit dated and some of the information and pages were less relevant now then in the past. Things change and so I'm happy to announce a new design for the site. Here's a preview of the header for the pages. The site is responsive so it should look

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The July 2014 issue of Seattle Business magazine has a list of the top 100 Best Companies To Work For as determined by a survey of employees run by Fieldwork Webwork. As the magazine article itself states "Firms that make the list get there because the people who work at those businesses like their jobs, their bosses and their benefits." In other words, the top 100 businesses have great Total

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A new survey by Glassdoor puts Google as the number one place to work with Costco coming in second. The technology news site The Verge has a summary of the survey... If a big paycheck is what you're after, Google is your best option among potential employers in Silicon Valley. In fact, the company also bests non-tech businesses when it comes to compensation and benefits. Google ranked first in

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Here's a survey that I don't think I've ever seen done. It's a small sample size relatively speaking (900 journalist), but I think it's large enough to draw conclusions. The article has some great displays of data as well. Depressing but not unexpected findings given the dearth of surveys of other industries and job types that arrive at the same conclusion. Senior female journalists make about

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Regardless of your musical tastes and whether or not you enjoy the music of Macklemore &amp; Ryan Lewis, it's hard to deny the tremendous success the duo has had over the past year. And this was not an overnight success, despite what it appeared to be last year. So it's with that sentiment that I link to this article by another very successful Seattle based artist, Chase Jarvis. Here are the

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Linking to another WorldatWork article about paid time off usage. This gels with my experiences talking with people in companies. Just because an organization offers a benefit doesn't mean that all the organizational factors are in place to allow employees to actual use the benefit. All the pieces of the puzzle need to fit together and line up to support the employees in their work and in their

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Good overview of short term and long term incentive use in both private and public organizations from the latest survey conducted by WorldatWork in conjunction with Deloitte Consulting LLP and&nbsp;Vivient Consulting. I'm not sure if you need to be a WorldatWork member to view the video. The link works without signing in. It's about 10 minutes long and packed with interesting information.

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Following up on the "10 Steps To Great Market Pricing" webinar, I just finished watching the "Executive Compensation Trends" webinar, hosted by the same group. It starts off a bit slow but really picks up at around 10 minutes in. There is some great data points and the webinar gives a good overview of executive compensation components and trends. The speaker from Equilar is a bit hard to hear

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Where does the time go? It's time for the Northwest Compensation and Rewards Forum (NCRF) quarterly luncheon! Where: &nbsp;Bellevue Club When: &nbsp;Wednesday, April 9th at 11:00 AM What: Lunch and a presentation by Joe DiMisa, Sibson Consulting on Sales Compensation, Awards, and Recognition Trends: Where are companies heading in 2014? Cost: $35.00 for members Why am I posting about this on

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The Wall Street Journal blog has an article that summarizes the findings recently released by the Labor Department. The top line of the blog reads that orthodontists make more than CEOs on average. But here's the catch... The discrepancy likely reflects the fact that U.S. chief executives (248,760) far outnumber orthodontists (5,570). A good number of those CEOs likely earn modest salaries at

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The Harvard Business Review has an article outlining a relatively new program within Google.&nbsp; Google's scientific approach to work-life balance I found it interesting that Google is looking at this as a long term project (100 years). The following are recommended by&nbsp;Laszlo Bock&nbsp;the SVP of People Operations at Google if you want to implement a similar program within your

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Follow the link below to find out. Let's just say that the results are a bit depressing. And apparently my chances of going pro are pretty low. &nbsp;Anyway, just a little compensation fun for a Friday. How long would it take you to earn as much as a MLB player? I find sports compensation baffling, even after 20 years of doing this type of work. It's a different world for sure. And in

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"If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system." is not at all compensation or market pricing related but so awesome anyway. Yeah, kind of explains why we haven't visited Mars yet. There are a lot of pixels between us and Mars.

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I was conducting an onsite training last week and when the home page came up in front of the group I realized that it's been quite a while since I've posted to the blog. I knew it'd been a few months, but standing in front of a group heightened my realization that it's been 10 months! Wow. Ok, so here's something that I watched today. It's a recorded webinar put on by Payscale and the

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Well, that depends... If you're only interested in making money then you should definitely become a&nbsp;Anesthesiologists. At least according to the chart found here and shown in the screenshot above.&nbsp; Of course we don't choose careers based only on our earning potential. Most people don't anyway. In fact, how many of us planned to become "compensation experts". That wasn't on my

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Neil Frasier, a software engineer at Google, recently visited Vietnam and came away with this conclusion... "The result in America is a prefect storm of opposition from every level. Effecting meaningful change is virtually impossible. I work for the education department at Google and the stories our external educators return with are as shocking as they are unpublishable. We've been spending

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My nine year-old son and I enjoy listening to Bird Note on KPLU, our local NPR affiliate. He and I sit patiently in the school parking lot waiting for 8:58 AM when we hear the announcement "and now time for Bird Note" signaling the start of the show. I think he loves hearing the bird sounds most of all. I love spending a few minutes together listening and laughing sometimes at the strange bird

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Are you ever called upon to write a communication piece for distribution to all employees? &nbsp;Do you end up writing a document that is full of compensation jargon? &nbsp;Do you find it difficult to write a piece that uses common language? &nbsp;I know I do! &nbsp;Well, I found a great little web tool that will help in this endeavor. It's called "The Up-Goer Five Text Editor". Here's how the

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The latest issue of the WorldatWork "Focus On Compensation" article discusses several points related to the "Future of Compensation Technology". &nbsp;I eagerly clicked through from the e-mail link to the article thinking that I would be in for a treat, hoping for some grand predictions on where we're headed as compensation professionals. &nbsp;What I read instead is that the future of

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Since we've moved, I've put off ordering new business cards with the thought that perhaps business cards were become less and less useful and that with the prevalence of email and the web that maybe I didn't need new business cards.&nbsp; And then I had three meetings in a row where I really wished that I had a new business card with my new address. Plus I'll need cards to hand out at the

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We had a very informative and engaging presentation at the Northwest Compensation and Rewards Forum on April 11th at the Bellevue Club.&nbsp; Debra Pumala from The Boeing Company joined us to discuss mergers and acquisitions. Her presentation entitled, "The Deal is Done, Now What? Mergers &amp; Acquisition Integration From a Compensation Perspective." was insightful especially if you're

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It really takes a couple of hours to go through the WorldatWork conference session schedule and pick the session that you'll attend. &nbsp;The hard part comes when you have two or three great sessions all occurring at the same time. Which one will you attend? Oh, it's not easy. But I stuck it out and came up with the following sessions. MONDAY, May 21st 7:00 am-8:00 am Continental

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