Insights for compensation and performance leaders.

Practical guidance for smoother compensation and performance cycles, plus events from the RedCAT team.

Salary Increase Budget vs. Compensation Strategy

Key Takeaways Effective compensation planning goes beyond establishing an annual salary increase budget. Organizations need a clear strategy for distributing available funds that considers employee contributions, business priorities, and long-term…

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2027 Compensation Planning | How to Get Ahead of Your Next Cycle

Compensation management starts with strategy. And for those with compensation cycles starting in January that strategy starts today.  An October start date might seem early; however, consider the upcoming holiday…

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Get your data house in order: the foundation to a smooth year-end compensation cycle

When it comes to compensation planning, the biggest challenges at year-end often don’t come from budgets or manager decisions—they come from bad data. Incomplete employee records, outdated salary ranges, and…

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Three immediate ways to ensure a smooth year-end compensation cycle

For HR and compensation leaders, year-end can feel like a sprint and a marathon rolled into one. With merit increases, bonus allocations, and promotions all coming to a head, the…

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Understanding AI chatbots to ensure meaningful and secure experiences

We’re back with part 2 of our AI series. In last month’s Introducing AI in code development and refinement we shared common AI terms and how our engineers are leveraging…

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Introducing AI in code development and refinement

In previous blogs, we shared how AI is used in the design process and how it is used by our product engineers. Let’s take a deeper dive into how AI…

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One SOC, Two SOC: Confirm your vendor is adhering to organizational security policies

A key differentiating factor when looking for a software partner is to check for achievement of Service Organization Controls (SOC) compliance. Conveniently, our team is one who is committed to…

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Employee Spotlight: Chad Mazilly, Software Engineer and Team Lead

With our new compensation product entering the market this month, it only makes sense that this Employee Spotlight features our team lead for product engineering–Chad Mazilly. Chad joined RedCAT Systems…

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Be one of the first at Total Rewards ’25

WorldatWork is hosting Total Rewards ’25 in a few weeks and we hope to catch you there! We’ll be at Booth 1438 ready to talk all about our new configurable…

Employee Spotlight: Tarah Lipperd, Chief Product Officer

This month’s Employee Spotlight features our Chief Product Officer Tarah Lipperd. Tarah joined RedCAT Systems in 2021 as part of the customer success team where she was responsible for implementing…

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Compensation made easy

If you’re following us on LinkedIn, you got to be one of the first to check out our new product! Last week we published our product tour video. A quick…

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Save time during your compensation cycle

With daylight saving time fast approaching in a few weeks for most in the United States, let’s chat about how our compensation management system can save you time.  Feel like…

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