By: Juan P. Garcia Organizational Research Services Director Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Take a Chomp Out of Your Comp!

2 Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION Plan Design & Compensation Trends Top Trends Overall Market Movement Industries Building Blocks, Compensation & Benefits: Key Foundation of a Total Rewards Strategy General Framework EG’s Employers of Choice Model Check-off Inventory Sample Case EG’s New Online Compensation program

3 Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Plan Design & Compensation: Top Trends Tops Trends  Soft salary increases likely trend for the next two years  Soft employment levels & low turnover  About 45% of cos. will rebuild / overhaul existing plans  More Cos. are evaluating other costs, pension, leaves, etc.  Cos. are actively evaluating / building their performance management program  Recalibrating payouts, executive compensation

4 Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Plan Design & Compensation: Top Trends Top Trends - continued  Internal equity and alignment – job evaluation programs  Concerns for Federal Contractors re employment Practices that lead to Compensating Disparities  Concern on new minimum wage:  1% of employees earn less than new min; 5% earn between $9 and $10  non-profits, 3% are below new minimum, 7% earn between $9 and $10

5 Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Market Movement, Increases & Employment

6 Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Plan Design & Compensation: Top Trends Industry Trends Manufacturing: S oft increases, 3%; Increase in OT, “OT is better than adding staff” Finance, non-banking sector: Above average increases, 3.7%+, aggressive bonus plans, 70% percentile Non-profits: Transparency, especially with executive pay, very receptive to internal pay equity, managing hours of part-time employees Hospitality: Concerns with n ew minimum wage, wage compression concerns; dealing with part-time employees, adding more $$ to train entry level EEs Sales: Recalibrating commission plans; as economy improves, payout and thresholds are being examined

7 Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Plan Design & Compensation: Top Trends OVERALL: On existing Talent:  Moderate Increases likely to continue into 2016  Cos. are more very receptive to retain and train  Investing to develop EEs, existing skills, job families  Address market disparities by spot market adjustments On New Talent:  Wait-and-see before adding to payroll ranks  Wage compression caused by new EEs demanding higher salaries

8 Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Building Blocks, Compensation & Benefits: Key Foundation of a Total Rewards Strategy Best Places to Work & Employers of Choice:

9 Employers Group: Employers of Choice Model

10 Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Building Blocks, Compensation & Benefits: Key Foundation of a Total Rewards Strategy From WorldatWork, Total Rewards Model

11 Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Building Blocks, Compensation & Benefits: Key Foundation of a Total Rewards Strategy

12 Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Building Blocks, Compensation & Benefits: Key Foundation of a Total Rewards Strategy How to rebuild or build a basic program - Checklist: 1. Where is your plan vs. key measures? Costs and market HR Metrics & Bureau of Labor Statistics 2. Has the plan been maintained? How? Upgrade ranges by 2% 3. Internal alignment: Is it defendable? 4. Updated JDs, jobs with multiple areas of responsibility? 5. Define your market; consider your recruiting practices 6. Update your performance management program, clear performance measures 7. Surveys – If possible, have 2 to three different sources

13 Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design EG’s Survey Program Effective 2013, program has been converted to an online model Features: Personalized Survey Libraries (2009- ) Access to all Survey Data, Comp & Benefits (900 classifications) Online comp market analysis Quarterly Updates based on market movement How to enroll? Build your Library by uploading your data: (a) Match jobs to EG (b) EG will do match for you System Enhancements Allow users to enter non-EG market data – Q2, 2014 Benefit Cost Assessment Analysis – Q3, 2014 Job Evaluation System of all EG Jobs – Q4, 2014 Consulting Program: Comp Administrative Modules

14 Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Attendees have been enrolled: egsurveys.net 2014 Budgets and Economic Trends, (Reg. $295) Employer Healthcare Benefits Survey, (Reg. $395) This PowerPoint Presentation Access your account: Existing Users:  your address  your current password New Users:  your address  passwords: bluela (My EG Compensation Page): bluela If you did not select this as your PM Breakout, please see me after the presentation.

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16 Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design EG Compensation Tools: Site Tour  Personalize Library  Online Market Analysis

17 Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Thank you!!! Juan P. Garcia