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3 Pay Concepts and Definitions
Pages 46-58

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From page 46...
... in the same jobs at the same employer location could be subject to pay discrimination if they are systematically paid differently because of their membership in a particular demographic group. Employment discrimination can affect pay through a number of different channels, such as different pay rates, different noncash compensation, different hours offered, and different job assignments to otherwise similar applicants.
From page 47...
... According to Kevin Hallock, director of the Cornell University Institute of Compensation Studies, who discussed compensation issues with the panel, compensation depicts market pricing of an essential component in the production function, and, in most instances, helps to match supply and demand for a workforce and for particular skills and qualifications.1 It can be a measure of responsiveness to offers. It can be adjusted to fit time, place, and circumstance by adjusting the pieces of compensation (wages, benefits, schedule, and other pay)
From page 48...
... At a minimum, all employers covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) 2 must keep certain records for each covered, nonexempt worker.3 Although there is no required format for the records, the content of the records is specified: The records must include accurate information about the employee and data about the hours worked and the wages earned, to include4 2  mployers covered by FLSA are those with at least two employees and an annual dollar E volume of sales or business of at least $500,000.
From page 49...
... Reprinted with permission. Figure 3-1 Bitmapped • employee's full name, as used for Social Security purposes, and on the same record, the type for labels New employee's identifying symbol or number if such is used in place of name on any time, work, or payroll records; • address, including zip code; • birth date, if younger than 19; • sex; • occupation; time and day of week when employee's workweek begins; hours worked each day and total hours worked each workweek; • basis on which employee's wages are paid; • regular hourly pay rate; • total daily or weekly straight-time earnings; • total overtime earnings for the workweek; • all additions to or deductions from the employee's wages;
From page 50...
... For example, those firms that have adopted employer-matching 401(k) plans called Safe Harbor plans must use the Internal Revenue Service definition of compensation, which includes all wages; salaries; other amounts received that are includible in the employee's gross income, including overtime; other items including commissions, fees for professional services, tips, bonuses, fringe benefits, and reimbursements for some other expense allowances; and foreign earned income.
From page 51...
... Current Employment Provides arithmetic averages (means) of the None None Statistics Survey hourly and weekly earnings of all production and (Bureau of Labor nonsupervisory jobs in the private nonfarm sector Statistics)
From page 52...
... employee as compensation for straight-time hourly definitions are used for work or for any salaried work performed. Includes initial data collection at an incentive pay, including commissions, production establishment.
From page 53...
... Job class Male and female Survey New Mexico Pay Total annual compensation converted to average EEO-1 job categories Male and female Equity Survey hourly wages in each job category are computed by adding the total compensation by gender divided by the total hours worked by that gender. Administrative Records Employer's Quarterly Total quarterly wages paid to all regular, part- None None Contribution and Wage time, temporary, or casual employees, without Report regard to age; wages paid for services performed for a partnership by the wife, husband, child, or other relative of a partner; wages paid by an individual owner to a son or daughter who is 18 or more years of age; salaries and other payments made to corporate officers for their services to the corporation (including Subchapter S corporations)
From page 54...
... Fair Labor Standards Time and day of week when employee's workweek Occupation Age; sex Act (FLSA) begins; hours worked each day and total hours worked each workweek; basis on which employee's wages are paid; regular hourly pay rate; total daily or weekly straight-time earnings; total overtime earnings for the workweek; all additions to or deductions from the employee's wages; total wages paid each pay period; date of payment and the pay period covered by the payment.
From page 55...
... NOTE: EEO = Equal Employment Opportunity, EO = Equal Opportunity Survey, IRS = Internal Revenue Service, OASDI = Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program, OES = Occupational Employment Survey, OFCCP = Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. SOURCES: Information from Current Employment Statistics forms (available at: http://www.bls.gov/ces/cescope.htm [July 2012]
From page 56...
... The definition excludes overtime pay, severance pay, shift differentials, nonproduction bonuses, employer costs for supplementary benefits, and tuition reimbursements. The OES survey collects wage data from private-sector employers in 12 intervals (or bands)
From page 57...
... The intervals are defined both as hourly rates and the computed corresponding annual rates: the annual rate for an occupation is calculated by multiplying the hourly wage rate by a typical work year of 2,080 hours. The responding establishments are instructed to report the hourly rate for part-time workers and to report annual rates for occupations that are typically paid at an annual rate but for less than 2,080 hours per year, such as teachers, pilots, and flight attendants.
From page 58...
... . The NCS annually publishes national, Census Bureau division, and local ­ area occupational earnings estimates of mean hourly earnings, mean and median weekly and annual earnings, and weekly and annual hours, for civilian ­ workers (as defined by the NCS)


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