Nearly half of employers are considering making changes to employee benefits, compensation, total rewards or executive pay programs this year or next, with about 40 percent of companies considering executive pay reform, according to a Willis Towers Watson survey.  By Megan Knowles - 2/12/18

Hospital and health system CFOs saw increases in total cash compensation from 2016 to 2017, according to a SullivanCotter report.  By Ayla Ellison - 2/9/18

Only 39 percent of U.S. workers tried to negotiate a higher salary at their last job offer, with workers from New York City being the most likely to negotiate, according to a survey from staffing firm Robert Half.  By Megan Knowles - 2/8/18

Although nearly 75 percent of organizations have started working to address pay equity, only 28 percent of organizations believe they have successfully closed existing pay gaps, according to a Gartner report.  By Megan Knowles - 2/7/18

Although the average role-to-role pay gap is 7.4 percent, the average employee perception of the gap is 15 percent, an impression that can harm employees' work quality and intent to stay with an organization, according to a Gartner report.  By Megan Knowles - 2/7/18

CEOs, CFOs and COOs saw increases in total cash compensation across different sizes and types of hospitals and health systems from 2016 to 2017, with the highest median compensation increases among COOs of independent health systems, according to a SullivanCotter report.  By Megan Knowles - 2/7/18

Average hourly earnings in the U.S. were 2.9 percent higher in January than a year earlier, but pay has been slow to move despite job growth for several reasons, The New York Times reports.  By Megan Knowles - 2/6/18

U.S. wages rose at their fastest pace in eight years and the nation added 200,000 jobs in January, including 21,000 hires in healthcare businesses, according to a CNNMoney report.  By Megan Knowles - 2/6/18

As public companies become required to disclose the pay ratio of their CEOs and median employees for the first time this year, Equilar conducted an anonymous survey of 356 public companies to identify the CEO pay ratio they plan to report in their 2018 proxy statements.  By Megan Knowles - 2/5/18

A top Rhode Island senator is proposing stricter rules for hospital executive pay out of concern that Providence, R.I.-based Care New England's leaders could eventually get a golden parachute as the health system moves to merge with Boston-based Partners HealthCare, according to a WPRI report.  By Megan Knowles - 2/2/18

Massachusetts launched the state's first salary negotiation workshops to help women negotiate better pay, according to a WBUR report.  By Megan Knowles - 2/1/18

Pay-for-performance programs can harm physicians and patients, most notably when recognizing that physician skill is not the only factor that determines care quality, argue Kip Sullivan, member of the Health Care for All Minnesota Policy Advisory Committee and Stephen Soumerai, professor of population medicine at Boston-based Harvard Medical School, in a STAT op-ed.  By Megan Knowles - 1/31/18

Several major U.S. companies will not ask prospective employees about their salary history at offices nationwide after their home state or city banned the question to encourage pay equity between male and female applicants, according to a Bloomberg BNA report.  By Megan Knowles - 1/30/18

A growing number of U.S. states and cities are banning employers from asking applicants about their salary history to encourage pay equity between male and female employees, according to a Bloomberg BNA report.  By Megan Knowles - 1/30/18

As CEO incentive pay packages bring attention to transparency issues in executive compensation, a group of directors and chief risk officers from The Directors and Chief Risk Officers Group published a set of guiding principles for compensation committees around the governance of risk related to pay and performance.  By Megan Knowles - 1/29/18

Women earn approximately 80 cents for every dollar men make, frequently referred to as the gender pay gap, but the difference in pay is often discussed under terms with other definitions, CNNMoney reports.  By Megan Knowles - 1/26/18

Rocky Mount, N.C.-based Nash UNC Health Care plans to raise compensation for nurses within the next month to keep them from leaving for higher-paying jobs in different counties, according to the Rocky Mount Telegram.  By Alia Paavola - 1/26/18

As corporations consider how government tax cuts are affecting employees and business investments, economists speculate whether the these cuts are the reason why companies are announcing bonuses and raises, NBC News reports.  By Megan Knowles - 1/25/18

As more U.S. states and cities become forced to follow a law that bans employers from asking job candidates about prior salary, Amazon voluntarily pledged to ban the salary question, a policy that could potentially hurt female candidates, according to a Quartz report.  By Megan Knowles - 1/24/18

CEOs significantly outpace the average American's pay rate, particularly when examining those leading the top 350 U.S. companies, who earned $15.6 million on average in 2016, according to a CNBC report.  By Megan Knowles - 1/23/18