{"id":92335,"date":"2026-08-04T13:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/peanut-butter-pay-raises-are-out-as-employers-shift-to-merit-based-hikes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T13:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:13:09","slug":"peanut-butter-pay-raises-are-out-as-employers-shift-to-merit-based-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/peanut-butter-pay-raises-are-out-as-employers-shift-to-merit-based-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Peanut butter&#8221; pay raises are out, as employers shift to merit-based hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>More companies are moving away from broad\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pay-raise-2026-peanut-butter-style\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;peanut butter&#8221;-style pay raises<\/a><\/span> for workers in favor of merit-based and other kinds of compensation sweeteners for top employees, according to new insights from Payscale.<\/p>\n<p>The trend toward rewarding strong individual performers within a business marks a shift away from companies spreading pay hikes evenly across their workforces. Just 32% of employers say they are planning a standard, across-the-board increase for workers in 2027, down from 36% who did so in 2026, according to Payscale, a compensation and benefits software company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are seeing organizations realize that they need to deploy pay strategically,&#8221; Ruth Thomas, Payscale&#8217;s chief compensation strategist, told CBS News. &#8220;They need to think about business transformation, and part of driving that is allocating pay budgets differently.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The findings are based on a Payscale survey of roughly 1,300 human resources and compensation executives in May and June.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>How big a raise in 2027?<\/h2>\n<p>For 2027, employers plan to raise their base pay by an average of 3.5%, up a meager 0.1 percentage point from this year&#8217;s hike, according to Payscale&#8217;s data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The size of the compensation budget pie is not getting bigger, but there&#8217;s a shift in how employers are choosing to slice it,&#8221; Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p>Such pay increases will keep worker pay ahead of inflation, but perhaps not by much, she added. Consumer prices rose at an <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/june-2026-cpi-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">annual rate of 3.5% in July<\/a><\/span>, according to recent government data, although economists expect inflation to cool in the second half of the year and into 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Employees in some industries could see considerably larger \u2014 and smaller \u2014 raises than 3.5%, according to Payscale. 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