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Rossi: The answer varies significantly by industry, customer type — such as business-to-business versus business-to-consumer — and sales role, but some fairly common tactical sales compensation changes that may last in the long term include simplifying plans to two measures (three maximum), to enable agility with less to analyze/change, ensure better administration, and reduce goal-setting pressure and workload for sales operations as well as sales.

Depending on the industry, future growth and other factors, we expect that CEO pay will increase by 8% to 12% in 2024 — with the uptick being fueled by hefty increases in long-term incentive (LTI) grants.

WTW found: ;72% of organizations do not have plans to modify their long-term incentive plans.; ;67% have no plans to modify their short-term incentive plans.; ;28% would consider discretionary adjustment this year, if needed.; ;19% would consider changes at the end of the performance cycle, if needed.; ;11% have already made a change or are planning one.; How to Strike the Right Balance Where does this leave employers that may be tightening benefit and salary increase budgets during a time when pay expectations and financial concerns are increasing?

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This allows for a single process to be run nationally.; ;Wrongfully reduced commissions to offset the costs of doing business.; ;Commission plans and rates once set should not be revised to account for increased costs and/or company overhead (presumably, salespeople have no impact on these costs).; ;If salespeople impact certain measures of profitability and leadership wants to hold salespeople accountable for their impact on profitability, place the profitability metric closest to what salespeople control (e.g., gross margin or “sales margin”) in the incentive plan as a metric with clear calculations.; ;Improperly reduced commissions earned after sales were booked based on criteria that it did not disclose to its employees.; ;Create clear metric calculations and document these calculations in the plan documents sent to sales employees.; ;There are situations in which adjusting credit is appropriate (such as customer contract cancellations after an incentive has been paid);

“Companies should consider all the options in the toolkit — base pay, short- and long-term incentives, recognition awards, career progression, development programs and opportunities — and align on the relationship of each one to performance,” she said.

These plans have some longevity as tools for globally mobile employees, specifically in instances where their home country retirement plan options could not be supported or where local schemes were not suitable.; The number of international pension plans (IPPs) and international savings plans (ISPs) being offered in countries operating in challenging political or economic circumstances has risen from 54 five years ago to 126 in 2024, according to a new WTW report .

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“Employers can still provide free preventive care, but they will want to work with their healthcare consultants and healthcare insurance brokers to understand the costs and make revisions to the summary plan description and plan documents if necessary.”