Compensation Design

Develop the strategies and structure needed to hire the best employees in your industry.

No more guesswork.

The competition to attract and retain great employees keeps growing, and it’s hard to find solid guidance
on how to win the game. It feels like you’re forced to make your “best guess”
when answering mission-critical questions like:
  • How do we stack up with the rest of the market?
  • If we pay our new employees more, how will that impact our existing team?
  • Are we offering the benefits employees really care about?
  • Are there disparities in the ways we pay different groups of people?

Gain the competitive edge in your marketplace.

Put the right practices in place to attract and retain the best talent in your industry.

Reliable Data

Benchmark your compensation structure against your industry, competitors, and region to ensure you’re able to stand out in your marketplace.

Expert Guidance

Our Certified Compensation Professional helps clarify your compensation philosophy and design a plan that fits your organization.

Strategy and Structure

Establish an equitable and consistent structure for compensation and build the strategies you need to make competitive offers to new hires.

Xenium’s experts guide you through the 3 Critical Steps of Compensation Design.

1. Job Descriptions

Work with Xenium to review and edit your existing job descriptions. Up-to-date descriptions that reflect the actual duties of a position are the key to gathering reliable wage survey data.

2. Wage Surveys

Using the most current data for your geographic location, employee size, revenue, and industry, we offer customized wage surveys for the positions in your company. This gives us the data we need for the next step.

3. Compensation Design

Xenium’s Certified Compensation Professional partners with your leadership to clarify your compensation philosophy. Then, they help you create a complete wage structure for your organization that’s equitable and motivating for employees and attractive to the best talent in your industry.

Download our Free Guide:

The Three Pillars of Compensation

This ebook takes you on a deep dive into the critical components of healthy Compensation Design. It also includes helpful tools for taking inventory of current practices and building a strategy for the future.

“We’ve grown organically from a small company to where we are now. So making sure compensation is where it should be, for our industry and our company, is really important.”

Megan VanDelinder

HR & Recruiting Director, Concept Systems

“When we engaged Xenium’s compensation services, we knew we needed more than just a pay study. We needed a foundation. Their team brought a level of professionalism and hands-on guidance that made the process seamless, even for a board navigating compensation strategy for the first time. Thanks to their work, our board now has a clear compensation philosophy and a strategic framework to build on. We’re already planning to re-engage Xenium in the spring to tackle the next phase for the remainder of the organization, and it’s reassuring to know their team is just a call away if questions come up in the meantime. I’d highly recommend Xenium to any organization looking to bring structure and confidence to their compensation approach.”

Andrea Bruno
President, Humane Society for Southwest Washington

Here’s How it Works

1. Discovery

Share your concerns and get an expert evaluation of the steps needed to conquer your challenges with compensation.

2. Implementation

Gain all of the guidance and support you need to conquer your compensation challenges with proven, efficient systems and processes.

3. Growth

Earn the confidence, trust, and loyalty of your people and feel the positive impact on productivity as you focus on growing your business.

The demands of HR and Payroll are endless. We provide a complete solution for both, so you can focus on what you do best - growing your business.