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In a context of labor shortage and strong global competition for talent, salary management is becoming a critical issue for companies wishing to attract, engage and retain qualified employees. This paper presents a multi-objective optimization model to balance the internal equity, external equity and costs trade-offs associated with the design of salary structures. Solutions are generated to estimate and explore the Pareto frontier using real compensation data from a unionized establishment in the public sector. Our work shows the interest of using combinatorial optimization techniques in the design of salary structures.
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Tremblay, FA., Piché-Meunier, D., Dubois, L. (2023). Multi-objective Optimization for the Design of Salary Structures. In: Cire, A.A. (eds) Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research. CPAIOR 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13884. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33271-5_28
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