Compensation consulting that scales.

Need to update your pay strategy? Want to make hiring, increases, and forecasting a breeze? Bright + Early’s compensation consultants will help you craft a custom compensation philosophy, job levels, and salary bands that are equitable, researched, and connected to your roles and goals. Our deeper HR experience means we don't just get compensation- we understand the manager support, team buy-in and business case behind a successful rollout.

While we specialize in compensation for startups, tech, nonprofits, and creative firms, we work with a wide range of teams, including alternatively structured, remote, and global organizations.

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Here’s how it works.

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Step 1: 

Get Philosophical

To start, we’ll dive deep into the values and behaviours you want to reward, explore how competitive we want to be in the market, discuss non-cash incentives, and decide how we’ll handle negotiations, increases and more. All of this comes together as the foundation of our process: your compensation philosophy.

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Step 2: 

Match the Market

Next, we’ll review your existing salary structure, job descriptions, and organizational design. We'll design (or incorporate any existing) job levels, ensuring we’re ready to match your jobs to market data. 

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Step 3:

Research and Verify

Next, we’ll conduct market research on base salary and other rewards using your job levels and custom-pulled data from your industry. Everything is included- there are no extra databases or reports to buy.

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Step 4:

Make it Whole

Together, we’ll explore options for non-base compensation, including benefits and variable pay (bonuses, commissions), and how they’ll each connect to our philosophy and salary bands.

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Step 5:

Audit the Impact

We'll audit your new pay bands against your existing team and salaries, advising on changes, adjustments and any equitable pay factors. No mess is too challenging; we’ll get you on track. 

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Step 6:
Roll it Out

Finally, we’ll work together to launch your new compensation plan. Includes a training/Q+A session for your team, a guide for managers on working with and answering questions about pay, and support in meeting any local pay transparency requirements.

You’ll walk away with:

  • Your custom compensation philosophy and process
  • Custom researched market data
  • Pay levels and bands for each role and department
  • Benefits, bonus and perks analysis and recommendations
  • Support with roll out and training
  • Advisory from Bright + Early's compensation experts
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