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The Croner Company’s surveys and consulting services are relied upon by organizations at all stages of growth to establish and modify pay practices and align compensation with mission, values and market. To learn more about our consulting services, please contact Lisa Dyakovski, Senior Consultant at the Croner Company, at (415) 485-5516 or [email protected]. For more information about The Croner Company’s compensation surveys, please contact Laurie Krashanoff, Manager, Account Relations, at +(415) 485-5521 or [email protected].

Boards Should Manage ‘Desert Island’ Risks

Reprint of article published in agendaweek.com, quoting Mel Croner. By Amanda Gerut Directors and executives say the biggest risks their companies face are related to government regulation, the economy and data security. However, some observers think those risks may not actually be the most dangerous ones. In Agenda’s Q2 Directors’ [...]

2025-12-01T11:11:33-08:00April 23rd, 2025|Recent Developments|

Planning for Equity in an Early Stage Company

So, you have a great product idea and you’ve decided to start the company of your dreams.  If you develop your product idea and the market embraces your technology, you are on your way.  Perhaps your company won’t become the next Google or Facebook, but it can find its place [...]

Emerging Policies for Hybrid and Permanently Remote Work

The results of a Croner Company pulse survey about remote work show a majority of participating companies will allow hybrid work schedules going forward. Hybrid work is defined as requiring some days in the office and allowing some days to be work from home.  The greatest number of those companies that will allow for hybrid work expect to have [...]

2023-08-17T10:37:58-07:00December 22nd, 2021|News & Trends|

Moderate Compensation Growth for Entertainment Industry

The annual Croner Entertainment Survey provides comprehensive market data about compensation for jobs and specialties in all segments of the Entertainment industry, including Film, Television, Digital Entertainment and Music production and distribution. Noteworthy insights from the recently published 2021 Croner Entertainment Survey include: Professional independent contributor positions and operating independent contributor / support positions experienced the [...]

2022-08-02T12:06:47-07:00December 13th, 2021|News & Trends|

Executives in Television and Digital Entertainment Experience Only Moderate Compensation Growth

The 2021 C2HR Content Developers Compensation Survey provides competitive compensation data for positions in companies that develop content for television and digital entertainment, as well as positions specific to television and radio broadcasting. High level trends from the 2021 results include: All organization levels experienced some year-over-year growth in compensation. Operating individual [...]

2022-08-02T12:06:41-07:00October 14th, 2021|News & Trends|

COVID-19 Impacted Compensation for Animation and Visual Effects Jobs

The recently published results of the 2021 Croner Animation and Visual Effects Survey shows noteworthy trends in compensation from the past year.  The highlights below are extracts from Croner’s annual report of third-party market data for roles specific to producing animation and visual effects. Base salaries increased year-over-year for the majority of [...]

2022-08-02T12:06:35-07:00September 7th, 2021|Attracting and Retaining Talent|

New Job Families Added to the 2021 Croner Software Games Survey

The position grids for the 2021 Croner Software Games Survey will cover ten new software gaming job families this year.  These additions result from discussions with survey participant companies at the annual Survey Planning Meeting.  The meeting was attended by human resources and compensation professionals from companies developing and/or publishing games in [...]

2022-08-02T12:06:47-07:00May 12th, 2021|News & Trends|