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Malena Halverson-Mays

48:50 - 49:22

“You've got folks that we are going to be moving the ranges, and in some cases pretty significantly. And what that might mean is that you've got some long-term employees, and you might even have some short-term employees that are going to be really close in this, in the range together, and that's what we call in-range compression.”
Speaker
Malena Halverson-Mays
Community
Alaska News
Location
Kodiak
Captured at
November 4, 2026

From the transcript

Okay, so it's It's a, it's a pretty big lift. Okay, the other option that you've got is to be looking at how your employees and where they are at within the range. You've got folks that we are going to be moving the ranges, and in some cases pretty significantly. And what that might mean is that you've got some long-term employees, and you might even have some short-term employees that are going to be really close in this, in the range together, and that's what we call in-range compression. And what we need to do is push your longer-term employees further up into the range.

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