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Championing Language Incentive Pay for Your Benefit and Your Employer’s, Too!

As a bilingual or multilingual professional, you have the opportunity to advocate for the value of language skills and related incentives, not only for yourself but also for others in the workplace. Encouraging employees to enhance their language skills can significantly improve communication and overall collaboration with domestic and international partners, clients, and customers.

Aligning Your Salary with Your Linguistic Skills Through Language Incentive Pay

Bilingual or multilingual professionals play a pivotal role in ensuring equal access for people from diverse communities, cultures, and ethnic backgrounds to the resources they need. Regardless of the additional language you command, your linguistic skills can make a positive impact in society while at the same time contributing to your employer’s business success. Therefore, […]

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Employee Retention is Linked to Offering Value: Take a Look at Language Incentive Pay

Every company has its unique culture, values, and circumstances, but consider the advantages that a language incentive pay program can give to your business. Talented bilingual or multilingual professionals often seek job opportunities in a diverse-oriented work environment where language skills are recognized and rewarded. So, a language incentive pay program can help position your […]

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How to Set-Up a Language Pay Program That Makes Sense for Your Business

Implementing a reward system that monetarily incentivizes the contributions of your bilingual and multilingual employees requires careful consideration, thorough research, and strategic planning. It is a multi-step process that can bring significant benefits to your business because when you develop a program that recognizes and highlights employees’ language skills it makes them feel valued. “To […]

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Assessing Bilingual Skills for Language Incentive Pay in Roanoke, Virginia – Case Study

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Introduction Roanoke, VA is a growing city with a population of around 100,000 people. Approximately 10% of its residents have limited English proficiency and face challenges accessing city services. To address this issue, the Community Engagement Office of Roanoke began offering information and resources in Spanish, the second most widely spoken language in the city. […]

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Meet a Language Superhero: Katie Hedrick

Katie Hedrick is the Community Inclusion Coordinator of the City of Roanoke’s Community Engagement department in Virginia. One of her responsibilities is to run a Bilingual Incentive Pay Program to address the concerns and needs of Roanoke’s diverse 100,000 residents. Katie successfully implemented the program across all departments, and to date, many of the city […]

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Local Governments Build Trust and Ensure Safer Communities with a Multilingual Workforce

The current global and culturally diverse economy in which the United States is immersed has created more awareness regarding the importance of having a multilingual and multicultural workforce in most industries and organizations, including in the governmental sector. The Importance and Benefits of Multilingualism in the Government Sector Equal access to essential information and resources […]

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