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As you probably already know, Payscale Peer is replacing Cascade’s Regional Pay Survey.  We think you’ll love this new option.  Even better, it further enhances our Compensation Team’s resources to provide exceptional support for your strategic compensation challenges. We’ve been getting questions about how we plan to use Payscale to better help you in your compensation work, so we thought we’d give you some insights around the work our team does.

Cascade’s new compensation data platform, Payscale Peer, is now open for participation. Payscale is an online compensation platform that collects regional and national data on 5,000 benchmark positions. Payscale currently has 2,200 participants nationwide, representing over 6 million employees. This platform will be replacing Cascade’s traditional Regional Pay Survey in 2024.

As we move through 2023, annual reviews may be on the horizon or the current season in your organization's performance management process, which means compensation conversations will need to be held. Money can be emotionally charged and deeply personal.

Every now and then, as a leader, it’s going to be necessary for you to have a corrective action conversation with someone on your team. The very nature of these conversations often makes them difficult. Sadly, for many, the temptation is to avoid them and hope the issues will go away on their own. However, you cannot avoid or sweep corrective action conversations under the rug and hope they will disappear. The truth is that nothing dies under the rug.

We need you! Cascade’s fourth quarterly HR Trends Survey of 2023 is now open for participation. This survey collects data on key workplace issues related to compliance, recruitment and retention, compensation, DEI and leadership, which we track and report on throughout the year. In our latest edition, we are also asking the challenges of Paid Leave Oregon (PLO).