You are the director of compensation at a major Internet company. As part of the strategy of your unit, you developed a compensation scorecard. The results are shown in the summary table. Based on this information, what can you conclude about the finance function?

The compa ratio suggests that finance employee salaries are too low.

The finance function is overstaffed.

The finance department needs to reduce operating costs.

The average merit increase for employees is too high $($actually over budget$)$ given its average performance rating.