Compensation Consulting
Solve your critical compensation challenges
Powered by our up-to-date, HR-reported compensation data and the unparalleled software platform, CompAnalyst®, our compensation consulting team solves your critical challenges by delivering innovative and efficient data-driven solutions; all backed by over 70 years of compensation and total rewards experience.
Top Challenges Our Consultants Solve
How do I set competitive pay for employees and new hires?
How do we prepare for pay transparency and alleviate concerns of all stakeholders?
How can I find out if our company has a pay equity issue?
How do I develop a compensation management strategy?
How do I create an employee incentive plan?
How do I create a consistent framework for job titles and descriptions?
Consulting Services
Competitive Pay Assessment
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.
Salary Structure Building
As a follow-on to a Competitive Pay Assessment engagement, our compensation experts will use our CompAnalyst® platform and market compensation data to model competitive salary structures, compose salary ranges, and audit job levels to assign to appropriate ranges. In addition, our team will analyze salary range placement for job incumbents and if necessary, estimate the cost to adjust employee pay.
Base Pay Program Administration
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 a base pay administration program, build salary structures, and work with you to make changes based on your compensation philosophy.
Variable Pay Program 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 reward employees fairly and motivate them to achieve stretch goals and deliver results.
Sales Compensation Plans
Motivate your sales team with commission and incentive pay plans that are aligned with your growth objectives and drive your business forward. Our compensation experts will optimize your sales compensation plans and work with you to set goals and incentives that increase sales performance and maximize your revenue potential.
Benefits Program Evaluation
Design benefits programs that are aligned with your total rewards philosophy and 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.
New Hire Pay Practice Consulting
Assess the competitiveness of your talent markets and determine if your new hire offers are above or below market prices. Our compensation specialists will analyze your candidate pool paying attention to the reasons candidates accept or decline offers and use our New Hire data set inside CompAnalyst® Market Data to determine if your starting compensation offers are competitive. They will provide insight into issues like pay compression and help you make smart pay decisions and win the war for talent.
Compensation Philosophy Facilitation
Craft a formal statement of your company's position on employee compensation. Our consultants will guide your team through the process and help you develop a compensation philosophy statement that explains the "how and why" behind employee pay and creates a framework for consistency that helps you attract, retain, and motivate employees.
Workforce Planning
Create a future-ready workforce and move your business forward. Our compensation practitioners can project the composition of your workforce, aligned with long-term financial forecasts, to achieve your organization’s long-term objectives. With a plan in place, your organization can make better decisions on job structures, budgeting, and hiring.
Compensation Management Outsourcing
Stay on top of key compensation projects even when you lack time and resources. Our team will price jobs, conduct competitive pay assessments, create or update job descriptions, manage salary structures, or tackle other important compensation initiatives and help you meet your goals.
Pay Equity Audit and Certification
Understand the extent to which your organization's pay practices are internally equitable.
Our compensation experts will audit your compensation strategies and determine whether or not employees across the organization – including those in protected classes - are paid fairly. They will assess differences in pay and determine if they are justified under the law. If not, they will make recommendations regarding corrective actions you can take to remediate and get certified.
Pay Transparency
Pay transparency is a growing initiative and strategy for many companies. It is also a legal requirement in many states, intended to prevent bias and close wage gaps. Most companies understand and support the aim, but fail to adequately communicate, contextualize, or justify pay decisions. We can help you meet the expectations of all stakeholders, including building employee trust by developing an equitable, sustainable compensation strategy and program. Developing an understanding of how pay decisions are made is our key goal, along with providing the necessary resources and tools to meet compliance requirements.
Job Evaluation
At the core of pay equity is defining comparable work. Our consultants will help you establish and document comparable work using our JobArchitect™ solution by reviewing similarities in job descriptions, skills, level of responsibility, and qualifications.
Job Description Composition
Build new job descriptions that reflect current duties, skills, and responsibilities.
Our team will help you compose accurate and meaningful job descriptions to ensure that your market pricing is accurate and competitive and that you’re hiring the right person for the right job.
Job Titling Standardization
We will evaluate your jobs and standardize titles so you can avoid problems with HRIS record management and workforce planning.
Organization-wide Job Leveling
Job levels can end up in disarray after reorganizations, acquisitions, or mergers. Our consultants will work with you to establish job-leveling criteria for your organization and apply that criteria to assign levels and ensure consistency in applying your compensation philosophy.
Career Frameworks
Build a consistent visual approach to the way you communicate levels, functions, and families inside and outside your organization. We will create a framework that enables employees and managers to be able to have career conversations around current and future skills and career growth.
Job Matching
Our consultants will match your jobs to your market data sources based on how they compare across job duties and responsibilities, skills, experience, and education to ensure that market pricing is accurate and efficient.
DE&I Best Practices and Model
Set a direction, create alignment, and generate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our team will assess your current practices, break down the 3 components of DE&I, and provide a framework for helping your organization support DE&I initiatives, ensure compliance, enjoy greater cooperation and collaboration among employees, and foster productivity and innovation.
HR Metrics
Track your human capital and measure the effectiveness of your HR initiatives. Our consultants will review your current metrics and assess the impact of your HR practices. They will benchmark your metrics against the external market and provide recommendations for improvements.
HR Analytics and Benchmarking
Ensure that the right employees are contributing the right effort at the right time and in the right place. Our team will analyze your results in key areas such as turnover, vacancies, time to fill open positions, productivity, offers accepted/declined, etc. They’ll benchmark your performance in comparison to the market and key environmental factors and uncover gaps.
Custom Surveys
Engage our experienced consultants to conduct specialized market pay surveys when data is not available in the marketplace. They will be your third-party administrator for conducting custom surveys.
Executive Compensation
Develop competitive total rewards programs that attract and retain top executive talent. Our consultants will assess peer company executive compensation offerings, work with you to design executive pay packages that motivate leadership to increase profits and share price, and develop programs that meet your business goals.
Demographic Data Audit
Our consultants are experts in helping organizations with finding inconsistencies, inaccuracies, and opportunities in employee demographic data. We review and recommend how and what to fix along with advice on how to keep data clean.
Foundational Table Audits
Ensuring that data is clean is key for employee data, but foundational tables are typically neglected. We review organizational data, job tables, action/reason codes, and other core HRIT tables to provide confidence that your HRIT is working off your modern and accurate corporate structures.
Life Cycle Audits
Stay on top of key compensation projects even when you lack time and resources. Our team will price jobs, conduct competitive assessments, create or update job descriptions, manage salary structures, tackle other important compensation initiatives, and help you meet your goals.
Meet the Experts
Greg Wolf
Greg has more than 25 years of combined human resource practitioner and consulting experience. He prides himself in creating and maintaining long-lasting relationships with clients to provide continued support in developing solutions to meet their unique challenges now and in the future.
Before joining Salary.com, Greg spent 14 years as Sr. Consultant and Regional Reward Practice Leader with Hay Group where he worked with organizations in a broad spectrum of industries, both public and private sector, locally and globally. He also consults with organizations on total compensation projects such as compensation philosophy development, total rewards and implementation strategies, benefits analysis among others.
Areas of expertise include strategic guidance to clients in all areas of total rewards consulting. Greg employs a broad-based approach to compensation consulting to ensure he develops effective plans to meet his clients’ specific needs.
Meet the Experts
Greg Wolf
Greg has more than 25 years of combined human resource practitioner and consulting experience. He prides himself in creating and maintaining long-lasting relationships with clients to provide continued support in developing solutions to meet their unique challenges now and in the future.
Before joining Salary.com, Greg spent 14 years as Sr. Consultant and Regional Reward Practice Leader with Hay Group where he worked with organizations in a broad spectrum of industries, both public and private sector, locally and globally. He also consults with organizations on total compensation projects such as compensation philosophy development, total rewards and implementation strategies, benefits analysis among others.
Areas of expertise include strategic guidance to clients in all areas of total rewards consulting. Greg employs a broad-based approach to compensation consulting to ensure he develops effective plans to meet his clients’ specific needs.
Garry Straker
Garry has over 20 years of experience specializing in providing total rewards consulting services to a diverse list of clients including higher education institutions, healthcare organizations, public sector employers, and privately held companies from a variety of industries. Garry’s focus is helping organizations achieve strategic goals by leveraging technology, data, and labor market insights to design sustainable, market-aligned total compensation plans.
His technical proficiency and collaborative approach are singularly focused on developing long-term solutions that help to attract and retain critical talent. His expertise includes evaluating trends, organizational challenges, and opportunities to develop rewards programs that are appropriately aligned with organizational workplace culture, and business priorities. Guided by data-driven insights, which considers external labor market dynamics and internal workforce needs and expectations; he helps organizations understand key drivers in reward and recognition programs that foster greater employee engagement and elevate the employee experience.
David Turetsky
David B. Turetsky serves as Vice President, Consulting and is responsible for consulting with clients on people analytics, total rewards and other HR data governance issues. In this role, David consults with clients focused on improving their usage of data, analytics and HR processes in support of their business.
David has more than 30 years of experience in Human Capital Management (HCM), HR, HRIS, talent management, compensation and big data as an analyst, manager, executive, consultant and entrepreneur. He is passionate about manager empowerment and employee engagement through total rewards management.
In his previous roles, David built a consulting group within ADP's Professional Services Organization, consulting with clients on their use of the ADP DataCloud™. He was uniquely qualified to provide that advice since his previous role was Chief Product Owner for the ADP DataCloud™ where he developed ADP reporting, analytics, benchmarking, data mashups and predictive analytics. Some of his products include the HR Executive Awesome New Technology award winners for 2016 and 2017, ADP DataCloud™ Annual Compensation Explorer and Pay Equity Explorer.
Eric McMillan
- 20 + years of broad compensation consulting and technology experience.
- Familiar with all aspects of compensation strategy and design for executives, employees, and sales compensation.
- Broad industry experience including financial services, not for profit, manufacturing, healthcare, high tech, and retail.
Courtney LeCompte, MPS, PHR
For over a decade, Courtney has served in a variety of consulting and corporate capacities, working with a wide array of organizations throughout the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. Courtney leverages her extensive experience in HR and compensation to deliver customized solutions to help organizations attract and retain key talent.
Prior to Salary.com, Courtney worked with consulting firms such as FutureSense, an Alliant Company, and Cascade Employers Association to provide compensation consultation in areas such as salary administration, total rewards strategy, pay equity, incentive compensation, executive compensation, and HR and pay analytics. She also previously served as a Senior Compensation Consultant for the State of Oregon where she led several statewide compensation initiatives including pay equity, The Oregon Management Project, classification and compensation studies, and partnered with labor relations to represent the State during contract negotiations.
Courtney received her Bachelor’s degree of Education from the University of Oregon, her Master’s degree in Strategic Human Resource Management and Development from the University of Denver, and holds a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification. Courtney is passionate about building genuine relationships with clients and partnering with organizations to develop practical solutions that align with organizational values and support strategic goals.
Angela Bailey
Angela has served the HR and consulting profession for more than 20 years delivering expertise in HR strategy, total rewards, talent and performance management, people operations, project management, and culture development for various industries including manufacturing, transportation, higher education, healthcare, consulting, retail, professional services and non-profits. Angela has compensation and HR consulting experience in both large and small firms in addition to holding HR VP and CHRO positions. Angela's volunteer leadership includes SHRM, and Rotary and serving on many non-profit boards. She is also an active member of WorldatWork.
Angela holds an MBA from the University of Louisville, and multiple certifications including SPHR, CCP, Achieve Global Leadership, DEI, Mentoring, and Health Coach. Angela is a frequent speaker for the Kentucky Chamber, SHRM, the Center for Non-Profit Excellence (CNPE), and other professional organizations.
Angela’s technical specialties include:
- Broad-based compensation and benefits strategy, design, implementation, and management
- Workforce Planning
- Succession Planning
- Talent Strategy
- DEIB
- Mergers and acquisitions: HR, rewards, and technology due diligence and culture integration
- Sales and performance incentive design
- System design and implementations
Dwight Brown
ADwight has 25 years of progressive experience leading analytics, data solutions management, and technology operations focusing on advanced analytics, risk methodologies, and strategy development.. He spent 22 years of his career at a large multi-specialty medical provider, where he led analytics implementation and support in areas such as Quality Management, Finance, and Human Resources.
Throughout his career he worked developing and implementing new operational functions, where he gained valuable skills and experience in Human Resources, Compensation, and People Analytics. Within Human Resources Dwight taught management classes on job description development, and assessment and management of employee performance. He was the principal designer and manager of an electronic performance appraisal system, and, in conjunction, led development of standardized organizational job description and skill-based competency assessment frameworks. At Salary.com Dwight works across all aspects of compensation analysis including benchmarking, compensation structure development, and pay equity. He is also co-host of the HR Data Labs podcast.
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