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Executive Compensation and Benefits - Executive Compensation Trends

Executive staff compensation: salary, benefits, and perks, needs special attention in recruiting and hiring executives. Executive staff are further along in their careers and they have a standard of expected benefits and compensation beyond the norm - and rightly so. You expect more from them. Find out more about executive compensation and benefits.

Job Offer Letter Sample: Executive Job Offer

Looking for a sample job offer letter for the executive, director, or other high level employee? Your candidates appreciate the job offer terms spelled out in detail. Use this executive job offer letter as a base for developing your own executive employment offer.

Signing Bonus

A signing bonus is a lump sum of money that an employer provides a prospective employee. The purpose of the signing bonus is to entice the applicant to sign-on with the employer’s organization. The signing bonus is most often used with executive level positions or to recruit employees with special, hard-to-find skills. The signing bonus is also used, on occasion, to recruit high potential students out of college.

Profit Sharing

Profit sharing is an example of a variable pay plan. Profit sharing is taking a percentage of a company’s annual profits and then dividing the pool of money generated across all employees using a formula for distribution. Profit sharing payments are only made if the company has been profitable for the time period specified. Find out more about profit sharing.

Compensation

Compensation is the total amount of the monetary and non-monetary pay and benefits provided to an employee by an employer in return for work performed as required. Compensation is based on market research about the worth of similar jobs, employee contributions and accomplishments, and the availability of employees with like skills in the marketplace.

Salary

Salary is a fixed amount of money or compensation paid to an employee by an employer in return for work performed. Salary is paid, most frequently, in a bi-weekly paycheck to an exe,pt or professional employee. In most years, an employee’s salary is paid in 26 even paychecks over the course of the year.

Make More Money: Your Lifetime Income Potential

Work is about the money. Work only becomes not about the money when you have sufficient income – however you define sufficient income – to support your chosen life style. With sufficient money, work becomes about other motivations. Maximize lifetime income potential by the choices you make for your career and how you work with your employer. Learn how to maximize your lifetime income potential.

Outsourcing

Outsourcing is paying a second party to perform one or more of your internal processes or functions. Business process outsourcing of certain functions is an increasingly popular way to improve basic services while allowing HR professionals time to play a more strategic role in their organizations. Frequently outsourced: payroll, 401(k) administration, employee assistance, and retirement planning.
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