HR and Compensation Consulting
Solve your critical compensation challenges
Salary.com’s consultants help you price jobs competitively, ensure pay equity, and design salary structures that optimize costs. With industry-leading solutions and deep market insights, we simplify compensation decisions with clear, actionable recommendations.
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Our consultants solve your top compensation challenges
Get Pay RightTM
Build a strong foundation with market-aligned compensation structures. From salary benchmarking to job leveling, we help you design pay programs that attract and retain top talent while ensuring internal consistency. Click here to learn more.
Pay Fair
Achieve pay equity and transparency with data-driven strategies that build trust, attract talent, and keep you compliant. We help you identify gaps, implement fair pay structures, and communicate with confidence.
Control Costs
Optimize compensation spending without sacrificing competitiveness. Our data-driven approach helps you manage pay structures, incentive plans, and compression risks to keep costs in check while driving performance.
And Much More...
We can help you with custom surveys, HR analytics, data cleaning, and specialized training. Our retainer services provide ongoing support to address your compensation and HR needs as they arise. Click here for a full list of our services.
Services We Offer
Market Pricing & Pay Structures
- Market Pricing, Benchmarking, and Competitive Pay Assessment
- Salary Structure Design
- Cost of Labor Zone Modeling
Job Architecture, Leveling & Descriptions
Incentive Planning and Executive Compensation
Data, Benchmarking & Custom Research
Market Pricing & Pay Structures
- Market Pricing, Benchmarking, and Competitive Pay Assessment
- Salary Structure Design
- Cost of Labor Zone Modeling
Job Architecture, Leveling & Descriptions
Data, Benchmarking & Custom Research
Incentive Planning and Executive Compensation
Why Choose Salary.com’s Consultants
Diversified and Experienced Team
Our individual consultants have decades of experience in a variety of industries. We have the knowledge and skills to help you in your specific organization, industry, and circumstances.
Salary.com’s Powerful Solutions
We leverage Salary.com’s industry-leading total compensation management platform, making full use of its trusted data and award-winning compensation solutions.
High-Touch Communication
Clear communication is a cornerstone of our process, and we will be with you every step of the way. Our team of consultants are available to provide guidance and support.
An Extra Set of Hands
Serious analysis is a big undertaking that all too often gets pushed to the bottom of the to-do list. This is a mistake, and everyone knows it, but sometimes your internal team just can’t get the time. Our consultants provide the extra resources and expertise to implement your compensation initiatives.
Third-Party Neutrality
Bringing in outside help demonstrates your commitment to fairness, transparency, and impartiality. It also guarantees a level of discretion not always possible within an organization.
Salary.com’s Solutions
Salary.com’s consultants are powered by our industry leading suite of solutions. We’ve got the data, and the technology, to deliver the results you need:
Meet the Experts
Dwight Brown
Dwight 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.
What Our Clients Say
“Salary.com’s consulting team recreated our entire compensation system from scratch, which was a huge lift, and we were so thankful we had the partnership we did. The services reshaped our organizations salary structure, something that needed to be addressed for several years. The collaboration with the project team throughout the project was most valuable. We have formed relationships with the consulting team and know we can always reach out to them if we need additional guidance.”
Alison Widmer
Director of Administrative Services at State of North Dakota Dept. of Commerce
“The team at Salary.com has been fantastic to work with—responsive, knowledgeable, and always willing to offer guidance. Their expertise in compensation best practices has been instrumental in helping us refine our approach to pay transparency, internal equity, and talent retention. We highly recommend them as a trusted partner in compensation management.”
Christi Lepley, SHRM-SCP
Chief Human Resources Officer
Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center
Meet the Experts
Dwight Brown
Dwight 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.
Eric McMillan
Eric is a seasoned compensation professional who brings over 20 years of broad compensation consulting and technology experience to his consulting role at Salary.com. He enjoys working with clients on all aspects of compensation strategy and design for executives, employees, and sales compensation.
Prior to joining Salary.com, Eric previously worked for IBM Kenexa, Willis Towers Watson, Mercer and the Hay Group.
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.
Karin Buchbinder
Karin has over 20 years experience developing global and domestic pay structures, incentive programs, sales compensation plan design and assessment, broad based compensation structure and design, compensation training, and job architecture/career framework design and implementation. She offers a tailored approach to implementing solutions that align with client’s cultural and business strategies. She has a BA from the University of California and a Master’s degree from New York University.
Abe Hayes
Abe Hayes is a Senior Consultant with over two decades of experience helping organizations build compensation programs that are clear, competitive, and sustainable. He specializes in job evaluation, pay structures, and aligning rewards with strategy, and has partnered with clients across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
Abe takes a collaborative, straightforward approach to making complex pay projects easier to understand and implement. He’s an active member of WorldatWork and a trusted partner to HR leaders navigating organizational change.
Hunter Myers
Hunter Myers is a Senior Compensation Consultant at Salary.com, with a specialized focus on statistical modeling and pay equity analyses. In his role, he brings extensive expertise in conducting market analyses, evaluating external competitiveness, and developing tailored salary structures for clients across a wide range of industries. Hunter’s deep understanding of compensation dynamics enables him to provide data-driven insights that help organizations align their pay practices with industry standards and ensure internal equity.
Before joining Salary.com, Hunter gained experience in talent acquisition, where he honed his skills in workforce planning, recruitment, and retention strategies. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Harvard University, where he developed a strong foundation in economic theory and quantitative analysis. Hunter combines his academic background with practical experience to deliver actionable solutions that optimize compensation strategies and enhance organizational effectiveness.
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