Failure to follow the 401(k) Plan Compensation definition for determining contributions is one of the top ten plan qualification failures and an area of IRS scrutiny during plan audits. This time of ...

Contributions to your 401(k) plan are calculated as a percentage of an employee’s compensation. Seems simple, right? Not so fast. The definition of “compensation” can actually be quite tricky to apply ...

Share-based compensation gives a company's employees equity ownership rights. The objective of share compensation is to align the interests of employees, management and shareholders. The reasoning is ...

In financial terms, the salary and wages you pay to your employees for the work they do. Other, nonfinancial forms of compensation can also be offered to attract and retain staff. Ask any human ...

Compensation management is the discipline and process for determining employees' appropriate pay, incentives, rewards, bonuses and benefits. Compensation management applications may be fairly complex, ...

Base salary is the money you pay your exempt employees for doing their jobs. Exempt employees are those whose jobs require them to routinely exercise independent judgement in their work. They're paid ...

CompPharma (www.comppharma.com), a consortium of workers' compensation pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), has compiled a directory of terms and definitions describing various aspects of the workers' ...

Investment advisers support a move this week by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. to ensure that advisers are accurately describing their compensation on its website, but they ...