Employees want paychecks to recover along with economy

After years of enduring pay cuts and salary freezes because of the recession, employees are ready for the slow recovery to extend to their paychecks.

Compensation and pay was rated as more important than any other aspect of job satisfaction in a 2013 survey of 600 U.S. employees, according to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) annual report on employee job satisfaction and engagement.