Headcount Journal is the people operations publication: pay, hiring, HR systems and the policy changes that shape how companies run their workforce.
Employee benefits are everything a company provides beyond wages: health cover, retirement contributions, paid leave, insurance and the smaller items that round out an offer letter.
What is net pay? It is the amount that actually lands in your bank…
6 min readAn exempt employee is someone the Fair Labor Standards Act excuses from overtime pay.
6 min readThe stipend meaning most people want is simple: a fixed sum paid to support…
6 min readWhat is annual income? The short answer is the total a person earns across…
6 min readMost small business owners shop for payroll software by comparing feature lists. That is backwards. At ten employees,…
Most HR teams already own the data they need. It sits in the HRIS, the applicant tracking system…
Your quarterly dashboard says engagement is up three points. Meanwhile, two of your best people just resigned, and…
The Roster
One email a week on pay, hiring and the HR systems underneath them — written for the person who has to make the policy work.
A SEP IRA is the simplest way for a small employer to put real money into staff retirement…
COBRA insurance is the federal right that lets employees keep their group health coverage after they leave a…
You open a job post on Monday and your inbox is full by Friday. Half the applicants miss…
Most small companies run HR on a patchwork of spreadsheets, shared drives and email threads. The U. S.
It's your third resignation this quarter, and every exit interview says the same thing: "I didn't see it…
You open the budget spreadsheet and find three versions of headcount. Finance has one, recruiting has another, and…
