The Loyalty Penalty: How a Hot Market Quietly Underpays Your Best People
Business Resources One
You're paying top dollar to land every new hire. But have you checked what that's doing to the pay of the people who've been with you for years?
In a labor market this hot, new-hire pay can quietly climb right past what your best, most loyal people make. It's called pay compression, and most owners never see it coming until a great crew leader hands in their notice.
In this episode of the BR1 Podcast, Mike Voories breaks down why loyalty is quietly getting penalized across the green industry, how to catch compression on your own team before it costs you a good person, and how the very same blind spot your competitors are ignoring becomes your sharpest recruiting opening.
In this episode:
- The compensation number that should stop every owner in their tracks
- How to run a quick compression check on the people you can't afford to lose
- Why the number one reason people start looking usually isn't pay
- The stay conversation that beats the exit interview every time
- How to turn another shop's complacency into your next great hire
At BR1, we help green industry leaders recruit and retain the right people to build stronger teams. If your retention plan is mostly hoping nobody quits, let's talk:
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Chapters:
0:00 — The Loyalty Penalty: How a Hot Market Quietly Underpays Your Best People
1:17 — The Number That Should Stop You
3:18 — Two Chairs, One Problem
3:49 — Playing Defense: Catch It Before It Costs You
7:09 — Playing Offense: Their Compression Is Your Opening
9:20 — It's One Sentence With Two Halves
10:08 — The Challenge
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