Pay Equity: The Secret to Getting Pay Right
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Join Salary.com’s CEO, Kent Plunkett, and Employment Attorney & HR Analyst, Heather Bussing, for an insightful discussion on getting pay right. Pay equity isn't just about fair compensation—it's about leveling the playing field, ensuring everyone gets what they deserve regardless of factors like gender or race. It's not just a concept; it's a way to address discrepancies and promote real equality in the workplace. Understanding market dynamics is crucial; it helps us ask the right questions and act where needed. To achieve pay equity, we need leadership commitment, job grouping, internal analysis, benchmarking, transparent communication, and ongoing updates. The benefit? A workplace built on fairness, competitiveness, and trust, with reduced risks and a stronger, more inclusive culture. Learn how to get pay right today.
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Learning Objectives:
- What is pay equity
- Why pay equity matters
- How to assess pay equity
- Rewards of achieving pay equity
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Kent Plunkett
Kent is as passionate about compensation and pay equity as he was in 1999 when he co-founded Salary.com with a goal of reinventing how employers and employees access compensation data. Kent has always believed pay equity is a two-sided coin and designed the business to support that belief. The company’s groundbreaking Salary Wizard was the first tool employees could access to understand their worth, effectively lifting the veil on salary information for millions of employees annually. On the B2B side, Salary.com has become the preeminent provider of compensation market data, software, and analytics, serving over 30,000 survey participant organizations, 8,000 business-to-business software subscribers, and 45+ million employees globally.
Kent holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and A.B. in Economics and Government from Georgetown University. He is a three-time Inc. 500 CEO, a six-time Deloitte Fast 50 awardee and recipient of the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of Year Award for business services. Kent is accredited by WorldatWork as a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP®)
Heather Bussing
Heather Bussing is a California employment attorney with over 30 years’ experience providing sensible and strategic advice to employers. Her deep experience with business, humans, technology, and work gives her a unique perspective focused on preventing and solving problems rather than fighting about them.
Heather has been interviewed and quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Business Insider, and NPR. She writes a daily column on the latest in employment laws, covering pay equity and transparency, AI in HR Tech, and why compliance, diversity, and fairness are good business.
