- Developing a compensation pay plan clearly defines how to reward staff members based on their job tasks. The more difficult the job demands the higher the salary should be after the job would have been evaluated accordingly. There are instituted federal laws for a minimum wage payment plan that set the standard and rules for equal pay, child labour, and record-keeping. To make it easy these jobs have been categorised into exempt and nonexempt jobs of which these standards have been set by the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) 1938. Employees who fall under this category of exempted jobs are executives, administrative managers, and professional employees, and they are excluded from the minimum wage and overtime requirements. Whereas, Employee...