Types of Wages
Types of Wages
Types of Wages
Recognize the lifestyle and standard of living of multigenerational employees in a flexible, cost effective and efficient manner
Compensation Management
Process where by organizations arrange and structure the pay and benefits provided to employees.
Designing a Program
Lead or lag the industry? Pay for performance? Automatic step increases? Cost of living/Across the board? Ensuring internal/external equity? Market driven?
Organizational Philosophy
Compensation programs viewed as cost vs. investment value added to organization aligned with business plan
Compensation Strategy
Market Position Job Value Pay structure Rewards Administration
Type of wages
Subsistence Wage
Subsistence Wage: - The wage that can meet only bare physical needs of a worker and his family is called subsistence wage.
Minimum wage
A minimum wage is the lowest hourly, daily or monthly remuneration that employers may legally pay to workers. Equivalently, it is the lowest wage at which workers may sell their labour. Although minimum wage laws are in effect in many controls, there are differences of opinion about the benefits and drawbacks of a minimum wage.
Minimum wage is the wage that is able to provide not only for bare physical needs but also for preservation of efficiency of worker plus some measure of education, health and other things
there is a separate minimum wage legislation in India. Minimum Wages Act, 1948 is an Act to provide for fixing minimum rates of wages incertain employments and it extends to the whole of India.
With effect from November 2009, the National Floor Level of Minimum Wage has been increased to Rs 100 per day from Rs 80 per day (which was in effect since 2007). Recently with effect from April 1, 2011 the National Floor Level of Minimum Wage has been raised to Rs 115 per day.
Fair wages
1) Wage levels and wage-fixing mechanisms that provide a living wage floor for workers, while fulfilling with national wage regulations (such as the minimum wage, payment of wages, overtime payments, provision of paid holidays and social insurance payments), 2) It ensures proper wage adjustments and lead to balanced wage developments in the company (with regard to wage disparity, skills, individual and collective performance and adequate internal communication and collective bargaining on wage issues)
Cont
Fair wages is an adjustable step that moves up according to the capacity of the industry to pay, and the prevailing rates of wages in the area of industry.
Living Wage
1) Living wage is that which workers can maintain the health and decency, a measure of comfort and some insurance against the more important misfortune of life. 2) In any even the minimum wage must be paid irrespective of the extent of profits, the financial condition of the establishment or the availability of workmen at lower wages. 3) The wages must be fair, i.e. sufficiently high to provide standard family with ,food, shelter, clothing, medical care and education of children appropriate to the workmen.
A fair wage lies between the minimum wage and the living wage which is the goal. Wages must be paid on an industry wise and region basis having due regard to the financial capacity of the unit
Efficiency wage
Higher than market wage paid to encourage higher output and to raise worker morale, and to discourage absenteeism and inventory shrinkage.