In a large survey by Payscale, companies that exceeded revenue expectations tended to pay their employees more. The correllation was strong, using data from more than 7,500 companies all over the world.

In 2015, about 90% of "top performing" companies gave pay raises. Of survey respondents, more than 1/3 of raise-givers increased compensation to between 96% and 100% of employees. 81% of top performers have bonuses.

And while these numbers may dazzle, it's not always well understood where success comes from; more simply, do raises cause success, or does success create the profits from which raises can be awarded?

The numbers tend to indicate the former. The survey measured companies by many factors, including many ways in which a company might act on employee value. Of the high-performing companies that measured near the top on employee valuation, high compensation, benefits, and bonuses tended to follow.

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