A special six-part report from Crowe Horwath

Banking keeps evolving, and so have the way banks compensate employees at all level. Crowe Horwath LLC and ABA Banking Journal present a special series based on the firm's 2012 Financial Institutions Compensation Survey.

The complete online series includes the exclusive capstone "Performance & Pay: 2013 HR Action Plan." The individual series installments build up to the suggestions and analyses presented in the final part.

The series probes such issues as:

• Technology's impact on human resource needs and practices in banking.

• Why Crowe experts say incentive pay isn't as effective in commercial lending as it could be.

• How retail banking evolution drives changing branch staffing and pay practices.

• Why incentive compensation is growing in the executive suite--but often on a longer time horizon.

• Who's doing the best out of the "chiefs."

• Why a compensation strategy proves essential--and why benefit cost management is equally critical.

The authors of the study series are: Jason V. Bomers, Patrick J. Cole, SPHR, and Timothy J. Reimink. You'll find additional background on the series in the installments.

Read the entire series:

• Performance & Pay Part 1: Trends in business lending positions 

• Performance & Pay Part 2: Trends in executive positions

• Performance & Pay Part 3: Trends in back-office management

•  Performance & Pay Part 4: Trends in branch sales positions

• Performance & Pay Part 5: Trends in customer contact positions  

• Performance & Pay Part 6: 2013 HR action plan

About the authors

		Patrick Cole is with Crowe in the Grand Rapids office. He can be reached at 616.242.6155 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
		Jason Bomers is a principal with Crowe Horwath LLP in the Grand Rapids, Mich., office. He leads Crowe's Banking Performance Group. He can be reached at 616.752.4279 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
		Tim Reimink is with Crowe in the Grand Rapids office. He can be reached at 616.774.6711 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it