作为雇主，可能需要有需要找到一种促进员工士气或生产力的方法。可能想到的一个想法是激励薪酬。但是，激励薪水是什么？而且，您应该知道的激励薪酬类型是什么？

什么是激励工资？

那么，究竟是什么奖励支付？这是激励薪酬定义：一种类型的compensationgiven in addition to base wages that can help motivate employees to perform their best. In turn, the company boosts profit because employees have an extra incentive to work harder.

激励薪水可以为您的员工现金或非现金支付。而且，您可以选择单独或基于公司整体表现给予激励薪酬。

There are two structures for incentives: casual and structured.

休闲奖励工资is a payment type that you can give to an employee at any time to reward them for their work performance or to help retain an employee. For example, you have a member of your team who performs exceptionally well, so you decide to give the employee a gift card. The gift card is a casual incentive payment type.

Structured incentive payis set by specific sales or production goals and paid to employees at a percentage or flat rate. For example, you set a goal for $50,000 in sales for the fiscal year. If you reach that goal, you give each employee a bonus equaling 2% of their annual salary. When you achieve the sales goal, the payments you give to your employees are structured incentive payments.

Merit Pay与激励薪酬

When you hear about incentive pay, you may also think about merit pay. After all, merit pay is very similar to incentive pay. With merit pay, you can also reward individual employees for their work performance. But, the big difference is that merit pay is a permanent increase to an employee’s wages while incentive pay is temporary.

例如，您的员工一直符合目标并在截止日期之前完成任务。因此，您决定通过在员工年薪中提高1％的薪水来奖励员工的努力工作。加薪是薪酬。

奖励工资计划

How you distribute incentives to your employees can vary. But, you should have an incentive pay plan in place to ensure that employees clearly understand the process.

一种类型的激励薪酬计划是拥有员工的审查。有一个工作人员，如主管，主观地审查每个员工的工作表现，以获得一段时间。看看团队合作等事情，采取主动，完成等等的能力，并对员工进行评分。您可以选择对具有最高总体绩效评级的员工提供奖励支付。

另一种类型的计划是小组计划。小组计划允许您查看团队的整体表现，以确定您支付多少员工。通常，您确定每个团队成员根据每个团队成员共同努力的整体表现收到多少。

激励薪酬的类型

Again, incentive based pay is temporary. Incentive pay does not permanently change the employee’s hourly or salary wages. Take a look at some incentive pay examples.

1.现金激励措施

Cash incentives include a variety of payments to employees based on their job performance, including commissions and bonuses.

Commission pay is a lump-sum payment made to employees when they complete a task. Typically, the task is selling a certain amount of goods or services. Employers may choose to have a commission-only payment system for employees. But generally, commissions are payments made in addition to hourly or salary wages.

现金奖金是偶尔或定期履行良好绩效的员工的金额。您还可以选择为员工提供奖金，以便加入或留在贵公司。奖金通常没有与销售联系在一起。

奖金的类型包括：

• 签署
• 推荐
• 表现
• 假期
• 保留
• Annual
• Milestone (e.g., five years with the company)

一般而言，只有非自由裁量奖金被认为是激励薪酬。非自由裁量奖金是必须满足某些要求的人，以便员工收到付款。

现金激励薪水可以是个人或团体计划。例如，您可以选择为假期提供群程计划奖金，但仅向这些员工提供表现良好的员工。

2. Profit sharing

Profit sharing是公司与员工共享年度利润。大多数盈利共享计划对员工进行了一年，员工以现金或股票的形式收到付款。

Typically, this type of incentive pay has a detailed plan and formula for how much of the profits the business will set aside and distribute. And, the plans are designed to assist employees with saving and investing for retirement.

3.股票期权

Employee stock options允许员工以折扣享受公司股票的股份，并享有可能的税收损失。

雇主也有利于股票期权，因为它使员工成为公司未来的真实股份。当员工在薪水之外有经济股份时，员工可以看到公司成功。

4. Career development incentives

您是否为您的员工提供学习和成长以进一步发展自己的职业生涯？如果是这样，您可能提供职业发展激励。职业发展激励措施的例子包括：

• 学费报销
• Networking opportunities (e.g., conference attendance)
• 训练课程
• Job shadowing/mentorship opportunities
• Skill advancement certification training

如果您支付员工参加允许职业发展的职能，则提供奖励薪酬。

5.非现金激励措施

在查看奖励薪酬时，您可能正在寻找贵公司可以做的所有大事，以激励员工加入或与您的公司留在一起。但是，并非所有激励都必须是大型企业，如股票期权或利润分享。输入非现金激励措施。

With non-cash incentives, employees do not receive money for their work, but they do receive some type of reward.

非现金激励可能是如此personal use of company car(PUCC)、礼物、凭证或会员俱乐部(e.g., health clubs). In other words, non-cash incentives can be rewards employees would not purchase for themselves. Employees may have to pay income taxes on some non-cash incentives (e.g., PUCC).

其他可以帮助您招聘和保留员工的其他非现金激励可能是：

• 定期公司午餐
• A snack bar
• Employee recognition programs (e.g., employee of the month)
• Flexible work arrangements

Non-cash incentives are unique because they can be physical items or experiences employees receive. And, this type of incentive can encompass other types of incentives. For example, career development opportunities are also a non-cash incentive for employees.

This article has been updated from its original publication date of June 5, 2012.

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