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Pay-Floor Impacted Headcount

Absolute count of workforce records currently paid below the applicable jurisdictional minimum-wage floor. The integer companion to pay-floor-failure-rate — both are needed: the rate tells you exposure intensity, the count tells you remediation scope.

How it’s computed

COUNT(compliance_status='fail')

What the evidence shows

Evidence (effect sizes, priors, validity) is syncing from Principia.

Run it on your data

This metric is computed in the People Analytics Toolbox on your own numbers. See pricing — posted, no quotes.

sources: toolbox:metrics-catalog

What the literature says

The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.

  • “Of course, if it’ s a minimum-wage job and the only component of pay is the wage, there are no components that can be subtracted feasibly (e.g., most minimum-wage jobs don’ t offer many fringe benefits). You can never truly escape from a floor or ceiling. To understand why,…”

    — Strategic Compensation Talentmatch 53%

  • “In other words, active employees today pay for current retiree benefits. There is growing concern in some countries, particularly in Western Europe, as to whether this system will be viable given that the proportion of actively employed people vs. retirees is expected to…”

    — Worldatwork Handbook Compensationmatch 52%

  • “Assume, for example, that base pay is recorded in terms of an annual amount (hours multiplied by hourly pay rate) for a group of full-time and part-time employees, as shown in Table 4-3 .Table 4-3.Hypothetical Pay Rates for Full-Time and Part-Time EmployeesID#SexStatusJob…”

    — Compensating Employees Fairlymatch 50%

Resources: Strategic Compensation Talent · Worldatwork Handbook Compensation · Compensating Employees Fairly