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Total rewards consulting: Smart answers to your most strategic questions

Experts from the Compdata Consulting Practice at Salary.com deliver creative, data-driven recommendations backed by 50 years of combined consulting experience.

Total rewards strategy development

Job description creation and management

Sales comp analysis and plan design

Total rewards strategy development

Align your total rewards strategy with your overall compensation philosophy. Our consultants will partner with you to understand your business, refine your compensation philosophy, and design balanced, externally competitive and internally equitable rewards programs that support your unique objectives.

Market reviews

Understand your current position within your target pay markets. Our consultants will assess the market competitiveness of your pay programs and make recommendations for adjustments based on your recruiting and retention goals.

Job description creation and management

Streamline your job description library. Our consultants will work with you to define the responsibilities of each position, create consistent job descriptions, secure stakeholder approvals, and conduct a comprehensive job evaluation.

Base pay design

Create fair and effective base pay programs. Our consultants will assess the market competitiveness and internal equity of your current pay practices, help you design and build salary structures, and work with you to make changes based on your compensation philosophy.

Variable pay plan design

Enhance the strategic value of your variable pay programs. Our consultants will partner with you to understand business objectives and design long- and short-term incentive programs that will motivate employees to deliver results.

Sales comp analysis and plan design

Motivate your sales team with commission and incentive pay plans that drive your business forward. Our consultants will assess current sales compensation plans and work with you to set goals and incentives that increase sales performance.

Benefits program analysis

Design benefits programs that deliver a clear competitive advantage while containing costs. Our consultants will review how employees currently perceive your benefits offerings, develop competitive new benefits plans that fit within your budget, and help you communicate the value of your new benefits programs.

Executive compensation design

Develop competitive total rewards programs that attract and retain top executive talent. Our consultants will assess peer company executive compensation offerings and work with you to design executive pay packages that meet your business goals.