{"id":637431,"date":"2026-10-05T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/637431\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:46:08","slug":"research-when-pay-fluctuates-workers-walk-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/637431\/","title":{"rendered":"Research: When Pay Fluctuates, Workers Walk Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-module-scss-module__UwInRW__text\" data-first-paragraph=\"true\">According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.payscale.com\/content\/report\/2025-compensation-best-practice-report.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" class=\"ContentLink-module-scss-module__qKDjGa__anchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent Payscale report<\/a>, more than 80% of companies currently use some form of variable pay to compensate their workers. From performance bonuses in sales and commission-based roles to tipped service jobs, demand-based scheduling in retail and construction, and algorithmically-priced gig work, a growing proportion of workers take home paychecks that vary substantially from week to week or month to month. Variable pay is also prevalent among professions often associated with a stable income including <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/learn\/blog\/closer-look-teacher-income\" class=\"ContentLink-module-scss-module__qKDjGa__anchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">public school teachers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/pijpsm\/article-abstract\/44\/2\/200\/511788\/Shift-work-and-overtime-across-a-career-in-law?redirectedFrom=fulltext\" class=\"ContentLink-module-scss-module__qKDjGa__anchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police officers<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/practice-management\/career-development\/how-much-your-physician-compensation-will-come-salary\" class=\"ContentLink-module-scss-module__qKDjGa__anchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">medical doctors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a recent Payscale report, more than 80% of companies currently use some form of variable pay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,46],"class_list":["post-637431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}