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Companies are spending the most ever on variable pay for salaried exempt workers, according to Aon Hewitt, as optimism about the economy is tempered by a greater emphasis on risk management.

Funds allocated for incentives, bonuses and cash awards climbed to a non-inflation-adjusted 12.9 percent of payroll spending in 2015, the highest in the 39 years of the US salary increase survey.

Read more at http://www.advisenltd.com/2015/09/09/variable-pay-hits-record-as-companies-weigh-risk-against-optimism/