When hiring a new employee, promoting an existing worker or reviewing compensation packages, it always helps to know what your competitors are paying. You don’t want to shell out too much or discourage the best talent by paying too little. California employers have just gotten some new tools to assist them. The California Employment Development Department (EDD) has published two surveys that can help you maintain a competitive edge when setting salaries and benefits.
The HR Management & Compliance Report: How To Comply with California Wage & Hour Law, explains everything you need to know to stay in compliance with the state’s complex and ever-changing rules, laws, and regulations in this area. Coverage on bonuses, meal and rest breaks, overtime, alternative workweeks, final paychecks, and more.
New Occupation Publication
A brand-new guide, “California Occupational Summaries 1995-1997,” contains important data on almost 400 white- and blue-collar jobs, from accountant to shipping clerk to Webmaster. For each job title, the guide provides:
- A summary of the job duties and requirements
- Training, experience and education requirements
- High, median and low wages for new hires without experience, new hires with experience and current employees with three years’ experience
- Types of fringe benefits that em- ployees typically receive in the occupation, broken out by part time and full time
- A supply and demand assessment that indicates the difficulty of finding new applicants
- An analysis of recruiting methods employers use
- Average hours worked in the job
- Predictions on whether the number of workers for the job is ex- pected to decline, remain stable or grow over the next three years
- Turnover rates
The guide provides statewide occupational information compiled from more than 33,000 employers. You can also order regional summaries for Los Angeles County, the Central Coast, the Central Valley, and the southern and northern counties of the state. Or, you can request a customized report by specific region. (This new guide shouldn’t be confused with an ex-isting EDD publication, the “Califor- nia Occupational Guides Set” which provides detailed job description information, but has only statewide wage figures and no specific data on benefits or hours.)
Wage Information By County Available
The EDD’s second new publication, “1998 California Occupational Guide Wage Supplement,” focuses on wage data. The report lists high, median and low pay levels for union and non-union workers in more than 400 occupations. Wages are broken down by county and by year for 1995, 1996 and 1997.Generally, the data is from a number of different counties, but for some jobs wages are listed only for one or two areas.
How To Get Copies
You can order the statewide “California Occupational Summaries 1995-1997” ($50), regional summaries ($35 each or $150 for a set of five) or customized reports (price varies) and the “1998 California Occupa- tional Guide Wage Supplement” ($21) by calling the EDD at (916) 262-2162.