wage adjustments
Salary rate modifications
Wage adjustments are changes to employee compensation, typically made periodically to account for inflation, performance, or market conditions.
Cost-of-living adjustments raise wages to match rising prices.
Merit-based adjustments reward individual performance.
Companies may also make adjustments when salary surveys reveal they're paying below market rate: The union negotiated wage adjustments for all hourly workers.
- merit increasesRaises based on achievement
- annual reviewPeriodic employee evaluation
- pay scalesStructured compensation levels
- inflationSustained price level increase
- cost of livingPrice of basic necessities
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