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Stay Ahead of the Curve.

Investing in pay equity and compensation solutions not only protects your company from legal risks – it also amplifies your company values for internal and external stakeholders, strengthening your foundation from the inside out.

As a longtime leader in workforce analytics and compliance, we understand that every company is unique. That’s why Berkshire offers a customized suite of compensation solutions, tailored to your organization’s vision and values. We work well with internal and external legal counsel to create meaningful analyses and provide actionable results.

If your pay equity investigation yields concerns about starting pay practices, promotions, performance management, or any other HR policy around pay, Berkshire also offers a full-service HR Development program. Our consultants can help you refine or create new programs and policies that are in line with Pay Equity best practices.

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Market Analysis

A market analysis provides your organization with the guidance it needs to be competitive in a tough labor market. Not only does a professionally done analysis provide your organization with a compensation structure (e.g., pay grades) that can grow as you do, it can also help you understand the minimum pay being offered in the market for each of your job titles. A market analysis can also provide organizations with valuable insight into employee turnover risks.

Berkshire’s compensation experts work with your organization to identify and collect appropriate data and identify appropriate matches in market analysis databases that best match your job descriptions and minimum qualifications. For SME organizations who have employees who wear “multiple hats,” we can build appropriate hybrid jobs to ensure full coverage of job duties for unique positions at your organization. Using this information, all approved by you, we build a pay structure that is easy to manage.  

For those interested in related services, we also can also increase the rigor of the market analysis by doing job evaluation or analyzing each employee’s salary to determine if they are a flight risk.

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Pay Equity Analysis

As national authorities on pay and other non-discrimination analyses for more than 25 years, Berkshire’s team has conducted thousands of compensation analyses for small (50 employees) to large (Fortune 10) organizations and institutions of higher education. With every pay equity project, we seek to isolate, cure, and prevent problematic HR practices to eliminate the threat of ongoing, repeated remediation. 

Our process begins by identifying who is similarly situated in your organization – ensuring we evaluate the correct comparators during any analysis. We take the time to understand each organization’s unique compensation philosophy so that our analyses mirror your compensation policies and practices. Using well-established statistical analyses, we will identify any unexplained pay disparities among employees based on gender, race, ethnicity, or other protected classes. If needed, Berkshire can provide solutions for remediation to achieve pay equity across the organization in ways that are budget friendly and develop an ongoing framework for monitoring pay equity. Our expert consultants will design a specific analysis plan for your organization to address your organization’s legal and practical priorities.

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Who Needs This?

 

  • Companies looking for in-depth expertise and analysis of their pay practices

  • Companies who are looking to make
    changes to compensation practices and procedures

  • Companies who are committed to investigating and fixing root causes of identified inequities

State Pay Reporting

As federal guidance for pay transparency and reporting has changed, states and even cities have increased scrutiny on pay equity and fair compensation. Many now have pay transparency requirements in varying degrees — some require including pay on job postings, some require it to be available on demand. Still others, like California, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York City, have gone a step further and require some reporting of pay data on a regular basis. 


For multi-state employers, this patchwork can be difficult for HR professionals to manage alone.

Our experts help you stay ahead of evolving obligations and maintain full compliance. We guide you through each requirement, prepare and file mandated pay data reports, and flag potential areas of risk before they become issues. When discrepancies or high-risk indicators appear, we help you evaluate root causes and build a defensible, evidence-based response strategy.

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Global Pay Reporting

Global pay reporting obligations are becoming more burdensome and complex every day. From compliance with the EU Pay Transparency Directive to solutions satisfying Canadian Federal and provincial requirements to assistance with requirements in the Asia-Pacific region, Berkshire can reduce the burden associated with these growing regulatory requirements and provide your organization with the confidence that these reports are being completed, and reported, accurately.

Our data analytics experts work well with your dedicated legal counsel to help you address each jurisdiction’s requirements, compile the necessary data, and analyze your pay practices so you can strategically respond to these new laws. 

Our suite of comprehensive services is customized to address each jurisdiction’s requirements within your organization’s global pay framework. Ways we can help include:

  • Calculating the gender pay gap for base pay and variable pay
  • Developing representation metrics
  • Identifying objective explanatory factors and recommended measures to close any gaps
  • Classifying positions of equal value 
  • Auditing your organization’s readiness to respond to global pay reporting requirements
  • Preparing the required reports 
Pay Analysis

Job Evaluation

Our job evaluation services help organizations establish a fair and consistent framework for determining the relative value of roles. Using rigorous, defensible methods, we analyze job responsibilities, complexity, and required skills to support equitable pay decisions, internal alignment, and compliance. We provide clear recommendations that give leaders confidence in their compensation structures and talent management practices.

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Wage Gap Analysis

A Wage Gap Analysis is a great first step towards identifying opportunities within your workforce. This analysis provides a baseline of how women and men and employees of different races are paid in your organization to evaluate your organization’s progress in eliminating the raw wage gap. Additionally, our Wage Gap Analysis explores how external disparities in our society may be reflected in your organization. Through the Wage Gap Analysis, Berkshire experts will analyze your data and prepare your organization for taking the next step of conducting more thorough people analytics to optimize your bottom line.

Who Needs This?

  • Companies seeking to demonstrate their integrity and social commitment to internal and external stakeholders

  • Companies concerned about how internal inequities may impact productivity, company brand or shareholder interests

  • Companies who want to understand how government agencies may review average employee wages in an aggregated format

 

Compression Priority Report

Berkshire’s Compression Priority Report (CPR) is designed to help organizations review pay compression by Job Title or Pay Grade. The analysis identifies individuals in each of your organization’s Titles (Profiles) or Grades who have more experience (as measured by time in position, time at your organization, and external experience – or your own experience calculation) but who are paid less than others with fewer years of experience.  

This powerful tool provides your HR and Compensation teams with a data-driven approach to evaluate both pay compression and job title or grade placement concerns. The CPR report allows organizations to quickly and systematically identify pay compression issues, providing insights on steps you can take to reduce employee dissatisfaction and turnover rates for long-term employees.  

Who Needs This?


  • Compensation departments needing a baseline review of recent compensation offers vs. the current pay of more tenured employees 

  • Talent Acquisition leaders looking for metrics around the consistency of starting pay decisions 

  • Organizations wanting to transition to a pay equity program that emphasizes consistency of starting pay decisions and values tenure and experience  

 

 

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