Author Archives: Chris Kelley

About Chris Kelley

CEO, KnowledgePay Inc.

Twenty Percent of States to Invoke Minimum Wage Changes on January 1, 2013

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Chris Kelley
Posted in KnowledgePay | Tagged Compensation, cost of human capital, hourly pay rate, KnowledgePay, minimum wage | Leave a comment
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That’s right, at least ten of the States have already announced increases to their minimum wage hourly pay rates going into the new 2013 calendar year. If you have workers in any of these locations: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Montana, … Continue reading →

Job Titles Do Have a Purpose

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Chris Kelley
Posted in Job Evaluation, Job Titling, KnowledgePay | 1 Comment
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Job titling can be a political hot potato in some organizations, at least in the organizations we see where the HR function hasn’t stepped to define the purpose of the job title. Maybe this is old school, but the most … Continue reading →

Funny Market Pricing Stories

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Chris Kelley
Posted in KnowledgePay | Tagged Compensation, KnowledgePay, market data, market pricing, salary surveys, Towers Watson | Leave a comment
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Funny how? Ha-ha funny, or funny like a clown. Well neither really. These are just a few of the quirky, humorous situations I’ve stumbled across. Would love to hear your stories. Towers’ Data Always Runs High – I’ve actually heard … Continue reading →

A Little Executive Compensation Humor

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Chris Kelley
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We don’t get to laugh very often in the land of executive compensation. So I just had to share this FedEx commercial I saw recently. Take a moment to click on the link. Laugh. Then get back to work FedEx … Continue reading →

Market Pricing Social Media Jobs (Really, Any Emerging Job Family)

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Chris Kelley
Posted in KnowledgePay, Market Pricing, Salary Surveys | Tagged Compensation, job evaluation, KnowledgePay, market pricing, Salary Survey | 1 Comment
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Ann Bares recently posted a blog on market pricing social media jobs. She really hit the nail on the head by using a very timely and relevant example many of us in the compensation profession are wrestling with right now. … Continue reading →

Salary Planning Surveys…and a Grain of Salt

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Chris Kelley
Posted in Compensation Planning, KnowledgePay, Market Pricing, Salary Surveys | Tagged market data, market pricing, Merit Increase, salary budgeting, salary planning | Leave a comment
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It’s that time of year when salary planning surveys get published and compensation professionals all over the world look for guidance about how much to age their market data and build their compensation budgets for the upcoming year.  There are … Continue reading →

Jacqueline Kuhn Recognized by IHRIM

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Chris Kelley
Posted in KnowledgePay | Tagged Jacqueline Kuhn, KnowledgePay | 1 Comment
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Jacqueline Kuhn was awarded the 2011 Summit Award by the International Association for Human Resource Information Management at their annual conference. This award is given out to individuals who have made significant, long-term contributions to the advancement of the IHRIM … Continue reading →

Job Evaluation Methodologies

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Chris Kelley
Posted in Job Evaluation, KnowledgePay | Tagged compensation software, job evaluation, KnowledgePay, market pricing, point-factor | Leave a comment
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There was  an interesting post in Ann Bares blog post titled “Are We Looking at a Job Evaluation Revival in ’09?” back in early 2009 and I first commented on it under my old blog, The Market Pricing Manifesto.  A … Continue reading →