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Mykkah Herner

Mykkah Herner

Mykkah Herner, M.A., CCP, is a Compensation and Human Resources Professional with ten+ years of HR experience. He has designed compensation strategies for over 400 organizations, poising compensation to drive business results. Mykkah specializes in linking performance with compensation, enabling effective conversations about compensation, and creating organizational change. He is passionate about driving the evolution of companies through bringing compensation into the modern age.

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7 Tips to Increase Pay Transparency in Your Organization

Pay transparency has increased in prevalence over the ...

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How Do You Know the Right Pay Transparency for Your Org?

With companies like Buffer and Gravity Payments raising ...

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7 Tips for Moving to a Pay-for-Performance Culture

Companies have seen a bit of a revolution in ...

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The Merit Matrix: Useful Tool or Relic of a Budget-Rich Past?

There are a few interesting conversations going around ...

Variable Pay: Is There a Difference Between a Bonus and ...

PayScale’s 2017 Compensation Best Practices Report ...

Recognizing People: A Recap of the WorkHuman Conference

Sometimes you come home from an industry conference ...

Two Ways to Improve Retention: From Flight Risk Jobs to ...

We talk a lot about uncertainty, especially when it ...

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Building a Compensation Plan: An Exercise in Collaboration

Building a compensation plan from scratch can be ...

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Which Compensation Structure Is Right for Your Company?

Compensation structures continue to evolve, and they ...

Nuances of Nonprofit Compensation: 2017 Compensation ...

In a prior life, I did compensation and HR for a ...

Healthcare Happenings: 2017 Compensation Best Practices

A few years back, I consulted for a hospital in a ...

Tech Industry Trends and Treats

PayScale has a work-hard, live-well culture. The first ...

College Costs Are Still Rising: What’s That Mean for ...

My nephew is in the final throes of deciding where he ...

The State of Manufacturing

Early in my career at PayScale, I worked with a ...

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Develop Your Pay Equity Action Plan

Happy Equal Pay Day? Typically not. Equal Pay Day is ...

How Much Will Your Bartender Make This St. Paddy’s Day?

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! As we prepare to celebrate ...

We’re Training Our Managers Wrong

“I don’t know why, HR wouldn’t let me.” Anyone who’s ...

Want a Better Culture? Set Compensation Strategy Accordingly

Organizational culture matters more now than ever. It ...

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Top 5 Reasons Why Focal Reviews Are Better for Your Company

We often get asked whether focal reviews or anniversary ...

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PayScale’s 2017 Compensation Best Practices Report Is Here

Today we release the eighth annual installment of ...

Is Your Dress Code Killing Your Culture?

I grew up outside of New York in the eighties. I got my ...

Top 3 Trump Actions and Their Business Impact

Trump came into the Oval Office with pen blazing. In ...

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7 Compensation Resolutions for 2017

Admittedly I don’t typically make resolutions. I like ...

Top 16 Compensation Blog Posts from ’16 (Part Two)

Yesterday we counted down the first half of the top 16 ...

Top 16 Compensation Blog Posts from ’16

We’re looking down the end of a very eventful year. As ...

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Special Snowflakes: Rudolph and the War for Talent

Tis the season to listen to Gene Autry on the radio and ...

Top Five Compensation Trends from 2016

2016 has been anything but boring. Between the ...

“What’s your Salary History?”

The salary history question has been a staple of job ...

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New Gender Pay Report Suggests Companies Should Address ...

PayScale recently completed a study of the gender pay ...

New PayScale Data Shows Companies Complying with ...

This FLSA stuff is getting convoluted. There’s the ...

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Merit Talks: Tis the Season

It’s nearing the holiday season; spirits are bright and ...

FLSA Stories: It’s Starting to Get Real

Companies are starting to implement changes in ...

Election Results Beyond the Presidency: How Do Key ...

When’s the last time you earned $7.25/hour? That’s the ...

Donald Trump Wins. What Are the Implications for ...

It’s official: Donald Trump is the new president. As we ...

Presidential Consequences: How is the Next President ...

What a decade it’s been for pay in politics! ...

FLSA News: Will It or Won’t It?

Before we fully surrender ourselves to the last minute ...

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