We work with clients to optimise their reward systems so they can more effectively recruit and retain employees, equipping them to better meet their business objectives.
Whether you want to check pay levels, review the way you organise your roles or improve your organisation’s reward processes, we can provide appropriate support:
We find out about your organisation and your needs.
Next, we recommend options and advise on a solution.
Then we deliver results, giving independent advice you can rely on.
Read about our key services below - click on the links for further details and case studies, and do get in touch to talk about how we can help you.
Our services
We can review your reward strategy, helping you decide what you want it to achieve and what needs to be done to build it.
We will talk to the people responsible for reward and can also speak with other key stakeholders about current reward practices and what they'd like to see in the future.
Reward strategy support
Job evaluation
We see job evaluation as an essential tool that, when applied correctly, provides clear direction without weighing you down. The results can provide the basis for benchmarking pay against market data and as the foundation of a transparent grade and pay structure.
Our job categorisation systems provide a reliable and consistent way of assessing the relative size and complexity of your roles.
Pay and benefits benchmarking
Getting basic pay and employee benefits right is crucial if you are to recruit and retain staff. Using our tried and tested approach, we can provide a robust and objective assessment of the market rate for any of your roles.
Our findings impact on people’s pay so our benchmarking service is thorough and we take pride in providing accurate results that relate to your organisation.
Pay structure design
When it comes to pay structures, one size does not fit all. To tailor yours, we will look at what works well and what issues you have with your current system, and also take account of how you see your organisation developing.
We will cost out the different options and can advise on how they could impact on your employees. We can then help you to communicate and implement it.
Employee surveys & focus groups
The best way to ensure that your reward strategy is relevant to your employees is to check their opinion and by using an external organisation, your staff are more likely to engage in the process and state their feelings.
We run customised employee opinion surveys and on-site focus groups, analysing the results and interpreting these for you. Information is treated sensitively, taking care to adhere to data protection principles.
Bespoke surveys
Robust reward data is scarce in many sectors and niche markets, so the only way to obtain reliable benchmarking data is to commission an independent survey that guarantees the confidentiality of participants.
We have considerable experience in designing and running surveys and can blend the results with our other pay sources to give you a precise picture of the market.
Equal pay audits
Knowing the detail of the pay gaps in your organisation makes sound business sense - and larger organisations have to publish their gender pay gaps annually. We can help you work towards equality in your organisation’s reward structures and then develop strategies to maintain them.
We can audit pay gaps (typically by gender and ethnicity), then explain our findings and provide you with advice on tackling any risk areas we find.