Meet Our Compensation Team: Jasmine Beecham

Introducing Jasmine Beecham, Ph.D.
HR Consultant, Compensation Services

What’s your background?

I received my PhD in Applied Social and Organizational Psychology in Summer 2024. My research focused on organizational discrimination with a social identity emphasis. I joined Berkshire Associates in April on the AAP side, and after helping the compensation team with a few small projects, I officially moved over to the compensation side in August. 

Why did you take on pay equity as your specialty?

The objective of doing research on discrimination and inequality is to then find ways to reduce it. I think pay equity analysis is an effective way to examine and combat inequitable compensation. Whether it is proactive or reactive, amending the inequality that exists in a workplace can have a meaningful impact on many people’s lives, both in how they feel valued within the workplace and how their life is supported outside of the workplace. 

What’s one thing people should know about pay equity or other employment decisions – but don’t?

Pay equity is more than just an analysis, it’s a strategy that is built through multiple HR Processes and Programs. For pay equity to work, a whole team needs to come together – human resources, talent and selection, finance and payroll to put together the pieces that maintain pay equity in the workplace.