A merit pay increase can motivate top-performing employees and improve worker retention. However, implementing a merit increase successfully requires planning and clear guidelines. Before moving ...

These columns have always been fans of merit pay. Pay for performance, bonus pay, merit pay--whatever you want to call it--has always worked. For example, take ... . almost any industry. But merit pay ...

University of Arkansas education researchers Jay Greene and Marcus Winters touched a nerve when their study on teacher pay hit newsstands in February. Critics took aim, questioning the accuracy of ...

BATON ROUGE -- Of all the state government employee policies that rile legislators and many other policymakers in the capital, perhaps no other is more perplexing than the so-called merit increases in ...

It seems like common sense—give the teachers who are doing a good job more pay. And yet the idea is doomed to failure. There are two critical issues. One is the issue of evaluation; exactly how do we ...

Ninety-two executive branch employees -- including Arkansas' chief medical examiner and the state's education secretary -- would have their merit pay increase added to their base salary, resulting in ...

It’s long been the case that when employees are promoted, they get pay raises. But there’s another reason you might increase an employee’s salary: They’re performing outstandingly in their current ...