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Still, don’t bash Amazon. “It just makes you look desperate,” Johnson said.
Instead, companies should reiterate their mission, vision and values. “Double down on what makes you a good place to work,” he said.
Johnson recommended that executives consider which employees they most want to retain and make sure they are satisfied. He said that many companies don’t have significant differentials between compensation awarded to their stars and average employees.
“It is hard to pay some people more and some people less. It is human nature to want to even everything out,” Johnson said. “How many people get zero raise? Not enough. How many get to 10 to 15 percent? Not enough.”
SHRM / November 5, 2018
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Decades ago, employers took a broader sociological view to determine if the real wages of their employees were going up over time,” says Johnson. “Now, employers see wage growth as something out of their control. They may be reasonably competitive with wages or benefits, but it may only be okay for employees, not great. And they think ‘I can’t do much about it because it’s out of my control.
Human Resource Executive / August 2, 2018
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“At the next board meeting, people will be talking about it,” says Alan Johnson, founder of Wall Street compensation consulting firm Johnson Associates. “It will be front of mind.”
It’s possible, though, that if the company regains market value, “by the end of the year, these days might be forgotten or it may have not really happened,” Johnson says.
Agenda / August 20, 2018
Read MoreBanker Bonuses Are Expected to Increase Except in Advising, Report Says
“It’s going to be challenging to manage people’s expectations,” he said in an interview. “As we get toward the end of the year I think people will expect to get paid more than they will. How do you manage people who get 5 percent more but maybe they were thinking they would get 10 to…
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“The industry has been on a fundraising and realization high,” Alan Johnson, managing director of Johnson Associates, said of private equity. eFinancialCareers / August 3, 2018 READ ARTICLE
Read More2019 Comp: Morgan Stanley Adds Account-Level Bonuses, Leaves Grid Unchanged
Compensation Consultant Alan Johnson of Johnson Associates in New York said the potential 3% grid-rate bump is, nevertheless, “dramatic” enough to get advisors’ attention. “Three points is a lot,” said Johnson when briefed on the details of the plan by a reporter. “Morgan Stanley is signaling that [financial plans and asset gathering] are important to…
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Johnson said he expected equities “to be up for the rest of the year,” but not on par with the “euphoric trading” of 2007 and 2008. “This is not your grandma’s trading. This is a more constrained, client-driven trading,” Johnson said. “We won’t see perhaps the profits we saw before the crisis.” Business Insider /…
Read MoreEquities Traders May See Biggest Bonus Jump of Up to 15% in 2018
“The mantra is hedge funds should make more money in volatile markets, that’s always been their elixir,” Johnson said. “That’s not as automatic as it once was.” Johnson Associates bases bonus estimates on first-quarter results and conversations with clients. The forecasts often change throughout the year. Bloomberg / May 9, 2018 READ ARTICLE
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“They’re just going to go to the salary they wanted to do in the first place,” said Alan Johnson, a financial compensation expert who runs the consulting firm Johnson & Associates. “The only reason you would change it because of the tax law is because you never believed in bonuses.” CNN Money / April 23,…
Read MoreThree Lessons From Early Pay Ratios
Similarly, Alan Johnson, managing director and founder at Johnson & Associates, suggests these pay disclosures may be only the beginning. For example, consider the gender pay gap information that companies are being required to disclose in the U.K. this year, he says. “I think we’re going to have ratios like this in different states in…
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