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Notes on paying people well
Merit cycles, pay equity, and compensation strategy, from people who have run these cycles.
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· Dallin Johns
How to run a merit cycle
The annual pay increase process stage by stage — budget, census, merit matrix, allocation, manager planning, approvals — plus a realistic Q1 timeline.
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Pay equity is a merit cycle problem
Why uniform percentage increases widen pay gaps every year, and how to close them using budget you have already committed.
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Merit cycles: spreadsheets vs. software
Where the spreadsheet cycle genuinely works, where it breaks, what that costs, and the point at which replacing it pays for itself.
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