ICS Blog

On October 16, the Cornell Compensation Club and the ILR Institute for Compensation Studies hosted a personal finance workshop with Chase Wickenheiser ‘19, CFP®, ChFC®. Chase shared practical advice on budgeting, building credit, and investing early. Read the key takeaways and the resources he recommended for students and young professionals.

2026 Third Quarter Summary – ECI acceleration holds below inflation.

At The Conference Board’s Executive Compensation & Talent 2026 in New York, Cornell’s Diane Burton and Brian Dunn, joined by Prudential’s Eric Weinberg, examined how standard practices like peer benchmarking, median targeting and equity grants quietly inflate executive pay, and offered five questions compensation committees should ask.

From the road to the hospital to the boardroom, summer research assistants are helping build a deeper, more complete picture of how pay and working conditions shape people's lives across the American workforce.

2026 Second Quarter Summary: Inflation closes in on compensation cost growth

Through ICS, I gained hands-on experience with compensation strategy and market data analysis that directly prepared me to contribute to KLA's Total Rewards team, where I developed a global rewards framework—reinforcing my passion for a career in total rewards.

For her transformative role in conveying the importance of high-quality federal statistics to legislators, journalists and the public, Erica Groshen, senior economics advisor, has been named the 2026 recipient of the Harry V. Roberts Statistical Advocate of the Year Award, presented by the American Statistical Association.

Cornell Senior Economics Advisor, Erica L. Groshen, the former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with coauthors from Stanford and Georgetown, posts a new working paper on the importance of federal statistics for economic policy.

2026 First Quarter Summary: Inflation closes in on compensation cost growth

ICS Recipients of the 2026 ILR School McPherson Honors and Awards

2025 Fourth Quarter Summary: Further softening in compensation cost growth, though margin above general inflation widens slightly