SaaS AE Compensation Heading into 2020

Turn on economic news these days and it’s nearly impossible to miss stories about the tight labor market and (depending on how you measure it) moderate wage growth.  The chart below compares the Unemployment Rate  and Average Hourly Earnings indexed to June 2009--the official end of the last recession. Net-net, the unemployment rate has fallen by ~60% while earnings have increased ~30%.  We’ve been diligently working our way through our latest round of AE research and I wanted...