Leveraging incentives and bonuses to keep high performers,taming the costs of Obamacare and looking at new policies toaddress workplace bullying are among some of the top trends that HRprofessionals in the credit union industry are expected to betalking about throughout 2013.

Although credit union salary increases are projected to remainlow in 2013, more credit unions are expected to leverage incentivesand bonuses to retain and recruit high-performing employees.

Credit unions expect the average full-time management salaryincrease to be 2.26% in 2013, a slight drop from the 2.53% averagewage hike in 2012, according to CUNA's Complete Credit Union StaffSalary Survey Report. For non-management credit union employees,base pay increases also will remain low. In 2013, credit unionshave projected an average base pay increase of 2.23% fornonmanagement employees, which is slightly down from the 2.43% in2012.