Fair base pay and stock grants
Base salary and profit sharing
Total Reward scheme not only salary and benefit
profit sharing and health care
Pay levels lag behind comparable companies in comparable roles requiring masters-and-above education. Most benefits are middling at best. Lack of stock options (private compan) is not offset by the measly bonus offering. "Racine is cheap to live in" is not a credible defense.
Raises are always pennies no matter how hard you work. No clear objectives are ever laid out to obtain the compensation desired.
Few sick days. Little to no vacation days. Suspicious ways of counting years (the New Year specifically) to make employees use more sick days (because vacation days are not a thing) than necessary.
Yes, performance based merit increases