Executive Compensation
- Executive pay benchmarking
- Base salary & total cash analysis
- Annual incentive plan design
- Long-term cash incentive design
- Pay philosophy & positioning
- Reasonableness assessments
- Board & committee presentations
Independent compensation consulting
Pay programs that attract talent, reward performance, and support your goals.
Senior-level compensation advice for privately held, family-owned and nonprofit organizations. You work directly with an experienced consultant who helps you make sound pay decisions, without the layers of a large consulting firm.
Salary structure review
Illustrative · Grade 14–16
Grade 14 · Analyst II$72k – $108k
Grade 15 · Manager$88k – $132k
Grade 16 · Senior Manager$106k – $159k
$60k$100k$140k$180k
In range
Outside range
Midpoint (compa-ratio 100%)
15+ years advising
Boards & compensation committees
CEOs & senior leaders
HR & finance leaders
Privately held & family-owned companies
Nonprofit organizations
Services
Comprehensive compensation services
Most projects start with a specific question: what a role should pay, how leadership is paid, or whether a bonus plan is working. The work is scoped to that question, and the results come back in plain language your leaders and board can use.
Broad-Based Compensation
- Benchmarking
- Base salary & total cash analysis
- Salary ranges & pay grades
- Internal equity evaluation
- Compensation program design
- Communication & training
Incentive Design
- Annual incentive & bonus plan design
- Performance measures & goal setting
- Pay-for-performance alignment
- Plan modeling & cost analysis
- Plan documentation review
- Implementation & communications
General Benchmarking
- Custom peer group development
- Base salary & total cash benchmarking
- Ad hoc market pricing
- Market competitiveness assessments
Advisory & Support
- Committee & board support
- Pay policy & practice guidance
- Ongoing advisory support
- Internal pay reviews & analysis
- Implementation & decision support
Express Market Pricing
Market pay answers, without the wait
Send us a job description and receive a consultant-reviewed market salary range based on established compensation survey data.
- Price
- $395 one position$350 each for 2–5 positions
- Scope
- Up to 5 roles
- Turnaround
- 1–5 business days
Ideal for hiring decisions, offers, salary requests, and quick market checks.
What you receive
- Market base salary at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles
- Total cash compensation, when reliable market data is available
- Market data from established, published compensation surveys
- Expert job matching, not an automated salary lookup
- A short written summary that can be shared internally
- One 30-minute consultation per request to review the results, if needed, no matter how many positions are included
How it works
- Send the job descriptionSubmit one job or up to five. No formal job description? A brief role overview works too.
- We review and confirm the requestWe'll make sure the role can be reliably priced and clarify any questions before pricing begins. You'll then receive an invoice, payable by ACH.
- Receive your resultsOnce payment is received, results are delivered by email within 1–3 business days for one role, or up to 5 business days for multiple roles.
Best for
Express Market Pricing is a good fit when you need to:
- Price a new position before posting it
- Evaluate an offer
- Respond to a salary request
- Check whether an existing role is still competitive
- Get a quick market reference without launching a larger compensation study
For organization-wide benchmarking, salary structure work, or more than five positions, we'll prepare a custom consulting proposal instead.
Approach
How an engagement works
A straightforward process, handled directly by an experienced consultant from the first conversation to the final recommendation.
Understand
We start by learning how your organization works: your goals, budget, current pay programs and what's prompting the question.
Benchmark
Jobs are matched to reliable survey data and current pay is compared to the market, so gaps and risks are easy to see.
Design
Options are modeled for cost and impact, balancing market competitiveness, internal equity and what you can afford.
Implement
We help you put changes in place, with materials for your board, talking points for managers and communication for employees.
About
Jennifer Givens, MBA, CCP
Founder & President
Jen has spent more than 15 years in compensation, helping organizations pay people fairly and competitively in a way the business can sustain.
She works with boards, compensation committees, senior leaders, and HR and finance teams. Her advice draws on market data and good governance practice, but it always comes back to what will work for the organization in front of her.
Before founding Compensation Consulting Partners, she held Principal and Managing Director roles in national consulting practices, where she led teams and managed engagements for organizations of all sizes, including privately held and family-owned businesses and nonprofits.
She started her career on the client side, in internal compensation roles in various industries. That experience still shapes her work. She knows what it takes to run a pay program day to day and to explain it to employees.
Clients appreciate that she keeps things practical. She explains the data plainly, gives a clear point of view, and stays involved until the decision is made.
Clear, practical guidanceRecommendations written for the people who have to act on them.
Data-informed judgmentReliable market data, read with experience.
Board-ready communicationMaterials committees can review and defend.
Solutions built to lastPrograms that are easy to run and hold up over time.
Contact
Let's talk about your pay strategy.
Whether you're preparing for a committee meeting, rethinking a bonus plan, or building salary ranges for the first time, a short call is a good place to start. Conversations are always confidential.
Based in Solon, Ohio · Serving clients nationwide