By: Juan P. Garcia Organizational Research Services Director

1. Take a Chomp Out of Your Comp! Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design By: Juan P. Garcia Organizational Research Services Director

2. Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design • ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION • Plan Design & Compensation Trends • Top Trends • Overall Market Movement • Industries • Building Blocks, Compensation & Benefits: Key Foundation of a Total Rewards Strategy • General Framework • EG’s Employers of Choice Model • Check-off Inventory • Sample Case • EG’s New Online Compensation program

3. Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design • Plan Design & Compensation: Top Trends • Tops Trends • Soft salary increases likely trend for the next two years • Soft employment levels & low turnover • About 45% of cos. will rebuild / overhaul existing plans • More Cos. are evaluating other costs, pension, leaves, etc. • Cos. are actively evaluating / building their performance management program • Recalibrating payouts, executive compensation

4. Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design • Plan Design & Compensation: Top Trends • Top Trends - continued • Internal equity and alignment – job evaluation programs • Concerns for Federal Contractors re employment Practices that lead to Compensating Disparities • Concern on new minimum wage: • 1% of employees earn less than new min; 5% earn between $9 and $10 • non-profits, 3% are below new minimum, 7% earn between $9 and $10

5. Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design • Market Movement, Increases & Employment

6. Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Plan Design & Compensation: Top Trends Industry Trends • Manufacturing: Soft increases, 3%; Increase in OT, “OT is better than adding staff” • Finance, non-banking sector: Above average increases, 3.7%+, aggressive bonus plans, 70% percentile • Non-profits: Transparency, especially with executive pay, very receptive to internal pay equity, managing hours of part-time employees • Hospitality: Concerns with new minimum wage, wage compression concerns; dealing with part-time employees, adding more $$ to train entry level EEs • Sales: Recalibrating commission plans; as economy improves, payout and thresholds are being examined

7. Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design • Plan Design & Compensation: Top Trends OVERALL: • On existing Talent: • Moderate Increases likely to continue into 2016 • Cos. are more very receptive to retain and train • Investing to develop EEs, existing skills, job families • Address market disparities by spot market adjustments • On New Talent: • Wait-and-see before adding to payroll ranks • Wage compression caused by new EEs demanding higher salaries

8. Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Building Blocks, Compensation & Benefits: Key Foundation of a Total Rewards Strategy • Best Places to Work & Employers of Choice:

9. Employers Group: Employers of Choice Model

10. Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design • Building Blocks, Compensation & Benefits: Key Foundation of a Total Rewards Strategy From WorldatWork, Total Rewards Model

11. Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design • Building Blocks, Compensation & Benefits: Key Foundation of a Total Rewards Strategy

12. Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Building Blocks, Compensation & Benefits: Key Foundation of a Total Rewards Strategy How to rebuild or build a basic program - Checklist: • Where is your plan vs. key measures? Costs and market • HR Metrics & Bureau of Labor Statistics • Has the plan been maintained? How? • Upgrade ranges by 2% • Internal alignment: Is it defendable? • Updated JDs, jobs with multiple areas of responsibility? • Define your market; consider your recruiting practices • Update your performance management program, clear performance measures • Surveys – If possible, have 2 to three different sources

13. Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design EG’s Survey Program • Effective 2013, program has been converted to an online model • Features: • Personalized Survey Libraries (2009- ) • Access to all Survey Data, Comp & Benefits (900 classifications) • Online comp market analysis • Quarterly Updates based on market movement • How to enroll? Build your Library by uploading your data: • (a) Match jobs to EG (b) EG will do match for you • System Enhancements • Allow users to enter non-EG market data – Q2, 2014 • Benefit Cost Assessment Analysis – Q3, 2014 • Job Evaluation System of all EG Jobs – Q4, 2014 • Consulting Program: Comp Administrative Modules

14. Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Attendees have been enrolled: egsurveys.net • 2014 Budgets and Economic Trends, (Reg. $295) • Employer Healthcare Benefits Survey, (Reg. $395) • This PowerPoint Presentation Access your account: Existing Users: • your email address • your current password New Users: • your email address • passwords: bluela (My EG Compensation Page): bluela If you did not select this as your PM Breakout, please see me after the presentation.

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16. Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design • EG Compensation Tools: • Site Tour • Personalize Library • Online Market Analysis

17. Total Rewards, Trends and Plan Design Thank you!!! Juan P. Garcia 213.765.3969 jgarcia@employersgroup.com