Employee Incentives Archives - Your ExitMap https://yourexitmap.com/tag/employee-incentives/ Free Exit Planning Tools for Business Owners Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:53:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://yourexitmap.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Site-Icon-YEM-2-32x32.png Employee Incentives Archives - Your ExitMap https://yourexitmap.com/tag/employee-incentives/ 32 32 122889523 NQDCs – “Let Me Count the Ways” https://yourexitmap.com/nqdcs-let-me-count-the-ways/ https://yourexitmap.com/nqdcs-let-me-count-the-ways/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:00:53 +0000 https://yourexitmap.com/?p=11008  Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation (NQDC) plans are a powerful tool for incentivizing and retaining key employees. They offer virtually unlimited flexibility in methodologies, objectives and rewards to suit a company’s strategies and goals. What is “unqualified?” Quite simply, NQDCs are discriminatory. Some owners shy away from that term, but discrimination isn’t automatically illegal. Illegal discrimination in the workplace is when an employer or manager treats an employee unfairly due to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age (40 or older), disability, or genetic information.  Non-qualified plans discriminate because they aren’t offered to everyone. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) sets standards for employee benefits. Retirement ... Read more

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