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Posted in Practicing Holacracy • By Alexey Ilyichev • 01/29/2018

Compensation app examples

Hi everyone!

In a coach training someone mentioned a compensation app for Holacracy called "Stahrs". They said I can find it on google if I like. I tried and I couldn't

The key idea in this app was that people would get a certain amount of stars, that they can give to other people, and then compensation is decided on that basis. Have anyone seen a system like that? Can you describe it in more details here, or provide some reference?

What are other creative ideas for compensation systems? Can someone share their personal experience with peer-to-peer compensation approaches?

5 Replies
Brian Robertson
01/29/2018

We just put in place a new compensation system for HolacracyOne; you can see the actual policy in our governance, here:  https://app.preview.glassfrog.com/policies/9928151

Geoff
01/30/2018

[@mention:449693036223847456], I don't see any mention of badges in that policy.  Is there some other place in your governance that connects badges to compensation, or is there simply no explicit connection between the two.  (Maybe there never was?)

Brian Robertson
01/30/2018

Yeah, all of our badge system policies are tagged with "badge system" - here's the list of everything with that tag:  https://app.preview.glassfrog.com/tags/280

But the badge system is not directly connected to the compensation system any longer.

awo
02/06/2018

These are not Holacracy apps, but they are companies doing pay in a self-managed context, so plenty to learn from:

Semco: https://semcostyle.org/article...e-their-own-salaries
Hanno: https://hanno.co/playbooks/ops/internal/salaries/
Makers Academy: https://blog.makersacademy.com...-salary-6f4819361335
Smarkets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwFMMJpTfbM (video)
Figure 53: http://figure53.com/notes/2013...st-set-our-salaries/
Buffer: https://open.buffer.com/transparent-salaries/

Alexey Ilyichev
02/09/2018

Thanks, Brian, Awo! That's just what I needed