The Assemble Blog

Pay Transparency Laws: What Are They, What States Have Them, and What Do They Mean For Employers?

Finally, this disturbing pattern has caught the attention of state lawmakers. Many of them have already enacted, or plan to enact, pay transparency laws. And that means new requirements and hard deadlines for employers. So how can companies prepare?

Liz Melton

May 6, 2022

The Pros & Cons of Sending Multiple Offers

Most companies extend a single offer per candidate, and their processes are crafted around that, including contingency plans for negotiating with candidates. Under the hood, their entire backend is set up to support that, including COLA and COM frameworks, prebuilt and prediscussed compensation bands, and more.

Liz Melton

April 20, 2022

Best practices for creating a location-based compensation strategy

For years, people spoke of the inevitable emergence of remote work. But it wasn't until 2020 that the majority of the world actually turned to distributed work as a necessary response to the global pandemic.

Liz Melton

April 15, 2022

11 Questions with Mark Shaw on Systemizing Compensation as an Engineering Leader in an Early-stage Company

To incentivize an engineer, you need a solid story for why this company and why now, and you need the dollars to compensate them.

Liz Melton

April 1, 2022

How to Extend a Thoughtful Offer

You’re speaking with a candidate who has an incredible background, jovial attitude, wealth of experience, and would be a perfect cultural fit for your organization.

Liz Melton

March 25, 2022

3 Ways Frances Perkins’ Legacy Impacts Equity and Compensation Today

Have you’ve ever worried about working more than 40-hours a week without overtime? Getting injured on the job without worker’s compensation to pay for your recovery? Being paid below minimum wage Having a child as your coworker? Paying into social security?

Liz Melton

March 11, 2022

5 Diversity Strategies for the Workplace

While there is a lot of focus on diversity hiring right now, a complete and comprehensive diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) strategy extends far beyond recruiting.

Liz Melton

March 3, 2022

10 notable people who broke barriers in the business world

DEI—diversity, equity, and inclusion—has come a long way in the workplace and has gone from dream to reality, though many still fight for it. The changes in the labor force didn’t happen overnight.

Nicole Johnson

December 15, 2021

From finance to tech — finding a rewarding career solving an important societal issue

In this blog, I'll talk about the culture at Assemble, what compelled me to move into a startup role, and a little bit about what day-to-day life is like now.

Sebastian Borja

November 24, 2021

These 10 industries have had the biggest gains in closing the gender wage gap since 1995

Assemble used data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey processed by IPUMS to break down how the gender wage gap has changed in 236 different industries.

Eliza Siegel

November 10, 2021

Why I left Facebook to join Assemble

9 months ago, I left my role as a Software Engineer at Facebook to become a Founding Engineer at Assemble, a seed stage startup.

Joe Pena

October 22, 2021

How the gender wage gap has changed over the last 40 years

Women have long received unequal pay in the American workplace, trailing men in terms of wages, overtime, opportunities, and promotions.

Ellen Wulfhorst

October 18, 2021

How Corporate Transparency Has Changed Over Time

Corporate transparency has been shown to reduce work-related stress for employees and help with morale within a company.

Assemble Content Team

August 24, 2021

Announcing Assemble’s SOC 2 Type II Certification

A key aspect of our customers’ trust is ensuring that their sensitive data is safe, secure, and in compliance with applicable regulation.

Assemble Content Team

August 24, 2021

Surprising Inequities in Compensation

The gender pay gap is consistently in the news—yet the problem is not being readily resolved.

Assemble Content Team

July 28, 2021

Why I Joined Assemble

Hi I’m Alice and I just joined Assemble as their newest software engineer. I’m excited to help companies make better compensation decisions for their employees, one line of code at a time!

Alice Perez

July 21, 2021

Cities Where Your Dollar Goes the Furthest

Finding the right place to live where your dollar goes furthest can mean the difference between scraping by or being able to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Assemble Content Team

July 6, 2021

Five Takeaways from the Federal Paycheck Fairness Act

On April 15th, 2021, the Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R. 7) passed through the House of Representatives for the third time in nearly 30 years. At the time of this writing, the bill has been introduced in the Senate and referred to a committee to be debated.