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From The Croner Company
Grantmaking Foundations Compensation Survey Annual Planning Meeting
The fifth annual planning meeting of the Croner Total Compensation Survey of Foundations will be held on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Sponsoring foundations of the Survey will meet to discuss survey content and timely issues facing human resources professionals during remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The planning meeting agenda will [...]
How to Design a Bonus Plan
Are you designing a new bonus plan for a start-up company? Or in an established company trying to determine what bonus you need to offer to compete with tech companies? Companies give out bonuses in order to motivate their staff and employees, boost morale and encourage quality performance. Rewarding employees for performance helps them see a physical indicator that directly impacts their compensation. [...]
Animation and Visual Effects Compensation Survey Annual Planning Meeting
Animation and Visual Effects jobs are at the forefront of today’s entertainment. Animators and Visual Effects teams are producing content consumed in software games and in content streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. The 2021 Croner Animation and Visual Effects Survey provides up-to-date competitive compensation information about positions that [...]
C2HR Shows COVID’s Impact on Industry Pay
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in more modest pay increases last year and slower compensation growth is expected to continue in 2021, according to data from The Content & Connectivity Human Resources (C2HR) Association’s annual compensation surveys, conducted by The Croner Company. Content developers have been much harder hit than connectivity [...]
Remote Pay Policies
The Croner Company is conducting an interim survey to report on compensation policies and practices under consideration or being implemented as a result of the shift to remote work. The survey is open at no charge to all survey participant companies registered for 2021 annual benchmark surveys conducted by Croner. [...]
New Jobs Added to Survey of Content Developer Jobs and Connectivity Provider Jobs
The position grids for the 2021 C2HR Content Developers Compensation Survey will cover four new job families this year. These additions result from discussions with industry representatives at the annual Survey Planning Meeting. The Planning Meeting was attended by human resources and compensation professionals from 25 companies that create and broadcast content [...]
2021 Croner Digital Content and Technology Survey Planning Meeting
The 25th annual Croner Digital Content and Technology Survey will be launched on Thursday, January 28, 2021, when long-time and new survey participant companies gather virtually to plan for this year’s Survey content. This annual Survey planning meeting, conducted with compensation and human resources executives, ensures the Survey remains fresh [...]
Planning Meeting for the 2021 C2HR Connectivity Providers Compensation Survey
The C2HR Connectivity Providers Compensation Survey provides up-to-date competitive compensation information about positions in cable multiple systems operators (MSOs), other cable and telecommunications operators and home security companies. The Survey will be launched on Thursday, January 14, 2021, when long-time and new survey participant companies gather virtually to plan for this year’s [...]
Steady Compensation Growth for Entertainment Industry Executives and Management
The annual Croner Entertainment Survey provides comprehensive market data for 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 just published 2020 Croner Entertainment Survey include: Executives and Middle Management levels across industry segments experienced steady compensation growth year [...]
Why Use A Compensation Survey?
It’s tempting to determine salary, bonus and stock levels of your executives and employees based upon anecdotal pay amounts or on readily available self-reported salary data. However, doing so is akin to guessing at sales levels with your largest customers, or to pricing your leading product based on a conversation with a former employee [...]
Current Salary Trends for Grantmaking Foundations and Community Foundations
The Croner Compensation Survey of Foundations provides comprehensive data on compensation specific to private, independent grantmaking foundations and community foundations in the U.S. Noteworthy salary trends in compensation for the grantmaking foundations, from our just published 2020 Croner Compensation Survey of Foundations, include [...]
Digital Media and Commerce Positions See Steady Growth in Pay
The 2020 Croner Digital Content and Technology Survey provides in-depth data on compensation for jobs specific to internet and mobile content and transactions. Some of the noteworthy findings from the recent report include [...]