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Workspan Daily Plus+
04/22/2025
Access a related Workspan Daily article on this subject: ‘Year of Contention’: Employers Mull Tight Budgets, Pay Expectations;
Where Employers Are Cutting
Payscale’s latest
Compensation Best Practices Report found organizations are reducing costs in certain areas:
;Pay increases (18%);
;Salary offers (14%);
;Hiring less experienced talent (15%);
“The most visible cuts are in salary budgets, back toward that 3% level that no longer builds in inflation-fueled increases,” Scott-Wears said.
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Workspan Daily
07/30/2025
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In response to fluctuating economic conditions, a cooling labor market, and growing expectations around pay equity and transparency, U.S. employers are taking a moderate approach toward their
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Workspan Daily
04/26/2022
Establishing a $15 federal minimum wage has been a key part of President Joe Biden’s labor agenda since he took office in January 2021, but efforts to do so remain stalled.
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WorldatWork 2026 Salary Budget Survey
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Salary budget planning is getting more complex.
Research
07/30/2025
This year’s survey includes base salary increases and merit budgets for 22 countries including in-depth salary budget insights in the United States (U.S.), Canada, India, and the United Kingdom.
Workspan Daily
06/02/2025
Policy Shifts Pulse Survey” said workers don’t need to worry about any immediate changes to salary increase budgets, some do expect tariffs, trade wars, governmental policy changes and other economic conditions to reduce their planned raises and incentives this year or next year.
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Workspan Daily
10/25/2022
WorldatWork’s “ 2022-23 Salary Budget Survey ” revealed that salary increase budgets reached their highest level in 20 years in the United States, rising to an average of 4.1% in 2022 with a 3.8% median.
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Executive Report & Online Reporting Tool – Trusted and relied upon by comp professionals worldwide, the WorldatWork Salary Budget Survey allows for unparalleled precision in your salary budget planning.
Workspan Daily
08/01/2024
Economy Remains a Primary Budget Driver Payscale’s study found that while most surveyed organizations (66%) anticipate their compensation budget will remain the same, those that forecast an increased budget or a decreased budget generally pointed to economic factors as the core reasons for a shift.
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Workspan Daily
05/17/2022
BDO data found about half of the organizations it surveyed recently increased salary budgets, with those compensation budgets averaging 5.1% overall and 5.4% among for-profit.
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