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🎉 Exciting news from LaborIQ! New Pay Band Manager™ features, including payroll integrations and visualizing employees, on pay bands are now live! These enhancements help HR teams operationalize pay equity, improve transparency, and manage compliance risk. Save time and organize your pay strategies. Full press release linked in comments. 👇

📊 The December 2025 jobs report is here. -Job Gains: U.S. businesses added a very modest 50k jobs in December, bringing the annual total to just under 600k. -Unemployment: The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.4%, with layoffs remaining near historic lows. -Wage Growth: Over the past 12 months, wages grew by 3.8%, outpacing inflation.   Read more about why low unemployment and robust wage growth put pressure on businesses to focus on retention and compensation strategies. ✍️Mallory Vachon, PhD

Now that the new year is here, pay transparency is the law in some states. Discover how leading companies are using real-time compensation data and salary bands to boost retention—and how these strategies can help you stay competitive. Check out the full article for all the 2026 HR trends you can’t afford to miss! https://lnkd.in/gpw-XXX9 #PayTransparency #HRTrends #CompensationStrategy #PayTransparency #HRTrends

Happy New Year! Make any resolutions? If your company is without a clear compensation strategy, that may be a good place to start. Our resources help you through the steps. https://lnkd.in/gzrn9SjH #CompensationStrategy

HR Professionals: Our compensation management tools provide the information you need to fill jobs faster, stay competitive, comply with pay transparency laws, and get pay right. Get a demo today. https://lnkd.in/e_NDebqE #PayTransparency #CompensationData

What's the right number of pay bands for your organization? Too few bands create inequity; too many are an administrative burden. Establish consistent ranges within job tiers -- usually 20-40% for individual contributors and 40-60% for management positions. Set the midpoints of your bands at the market rate. Learn more best practices for creating pay bands here. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gvkSHum6 #PayBands #CompensationBestPractices

LaborIQ's Salary Answers lets you find reliable salary data for unique job titles by requesting a job title specific to your organization. No other benchmarking software does that! Get more details or request a demo! https://lnkd.in/gPg5QAFa #PayBenchmarking #SalaryData

Are your compensation data privacy practices what they should be? Employees have high expectations for data privacy. Our white paper outlines best practices for comp data protection and offers actionable steps you can implement now to safeguard your people's data. https://lnkd.in/gxDaGs5q #DataPrivacy

LaborIQ's Market Performance tool delivers strategic insights so you can compare locations, industries, and job market forecasts to help you plan and grow. https://lnkd.in/g8PpYCkR

As the season of gratitude and reflection arrives, all of us at LaborIQ wish you peace, joy, and success. May this time bring warmth to your homes and clarity to your goals. Here’s to a thriving new year ahead!