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In this session, CaptivateIQ Co-Founder and Co-CEO Mark Schopmeyer and a panel of compensation leaders unpack the findings from the 2026 State of Incentive Compensation Management report and what they mean for how you design, manage, and evolve your comp programs.

A total of 364 responses were received from full-time sales compensation professionals via the online panels Dynata, InnovateMR and MarketCube.

WorldatWork also obtained responses from 312 full-time business professionals via the Schlesinger Group panel online.

;Eliminating the “manels:” one study found, for instance, that women only accounted for 30% of all academic conference speakers and that nearly 40% of panels were “manels” comprised entirely of men.

I recently moderated a panel discussion on the challenges of managing the “extended workforce” — essentially guns for hire who, on balance, prefer flexibility and variety to the tedious certainty of a weekly paycheck.

The standard mileage rates, which took effect Jan. 1, apply for the use of a car, van, pickup or panel truck, and are the same whether the employee uses a gasoline- or diesel-powered vehicle or one that is fully electric or a gas-and-electric hybrid.

During these inspections, OSHA routinely find exit routes, fire extinguishers and electrical panels dangerously obstructed or blocked; unsafe walking-working surfaces; and unstable stacks of merchandise.

In addition to members and customers of WorldatWork and SalesGlobe, WorldatWork also obtained responses from full-time sales compensation professionals via the MarketCube panel online.

The standard mileage rates for the use of a car, van, pickup or panel truck are now: ;70 cents per mile driven for business use, up from 67 cents per mile in 2024.; ;21 cents per mile driven for medical purposes, the same as in 2024.; ;21 cents per mile driven for moving purposes for qualified active-duty members of the Armed Forces, unchanged from last year.; ;14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organizations, equal to the rate in 2024.; The rates apply to fully electric and hybrid automobiles, as well as gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles.

(For its purposes, the study used family-level data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey from Jan. 1, 2011, to Dec. 31, 2019.