Employers are spreading raises like peanut butter – and workers are paying the price | Gene Marks

These across-the-board raises to all employees versus individual performance-based raises are simply lazyLooking forward to a raise in 2026? You may be getting “peanut butter”.A new report from compensation software and data provider Payscale predicts that in 2026, many employers will be giving “peanut butter raises” to their employees – increases given “across the board” as opposed to being calculated individually based on performance or merit. They’re spread evenly, like peanut butter on a slice of bread. Continue reading...