Compensation Consultant

Payscale, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

14 paid company holidays

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Parental leave (16 weeks)

HSA options

FSA options

Remote work stipend

Job summary

Payscale is seeking an experienced compensation consultant to lead complex client engagements and deliver strategic compensation guidance. The role emphasizes benchmarking, market pricing, salary structure design, and job architecture across industries and geographies.

As a remote-first employer in the U.S., you’ll collaborate with client executives and internal teams to drive outcomes while enjoying a flexible work setup and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on compensation experience.
• Strong project management skills to handle moderately to highly complex client engagements independently.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to convey compensation concepts to senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Manage Complex Client Engagements: serve as project manager on high-value compensation projects requiring cross-functional collaboration.
• Execute Core Compensation Initiatives: support and manage projects from stakeholder alignment to policy documentation and communications training.
• Provide Compensation Consultation: interpret market data, advise on benchmarking, market pricing, salary structure, and job architecture.
• Facilitate Client Conversations: discuss findings and recommendations with client stakeholders, including senior leaders.
• Support Team Collaboration and Learning: share knowledge and mentor teammates, support onboarding and peer reviews.
• Collaborate Cross-functionally: partner across teams to deliver solutions and assist revenue teams on pursuits and renewals.
• Contribute to Process Improvement: identify gaps and propose improvements to raise service quality.

Skills

Project management

Communication & presentation

Excel & data analysis

Client-facing experience

Compensation expertise

Education

CCP certification

Tools

Excel

Job description

About Payscale

Payscale is the pioneer of compensation intelligence, helping organizations make smarter pay decisions that drive business performance. For more than 20 years, Payscale has combined trusted market data with AI-powered technology to deliver actionable insights that turn pay from a cost into a catalyst for growth. The Payscale Intelligence Cloud portfolio of solutions — Ascent, JobNav, and Paycycle — empower top companies and businesses like Cintas, Leidos, Chipotle, Ohio State University, and TJX Companies.

Create confidence in your compensation. Payscale.

To learn more, visit www.payscale.com.

What We Do:

Payscale's Compensation Services team partners strategically with clients across their entire compensation journey. We help organizations build foundational compensation strategies, design competitive pay structures, establish job families and level frameworks, and enhance pay transparency and communications - serving as trusted advisors who guide clients through complex compensation decisions across diverse industries, geographies, and organizational complexities. Our role is to combine deep compensation expertise with data-driven insights from Payscale's platform to deliver tangible, measurable outcomes that help clients build defensible, strategic compensation programs.

What You'll Do:

• Manage Complex Client Engagements: Serve as project manager on high-value, complex compensation projects that often require cross-functional collaboration with benchmarking, revenue, and other internal teams to deliver comprehensive solutions
• Execute Core Compensation Initiatives: Support and manage a range of project types within our service offerings - from stakeholder alignment and compensation strategy development through job pricing, structure modeling, job family framework development, policy documentation, and compensation communications training
• Provide Compensation Consultation: Deliver deep compensation expertise across benchmarking and market pricing, salary structure design, and job architecture - interpreting complex market data and tailoring recommendations to unique client circumstances and business objectives
• Facilitate Client Conversations: Partner with client stakeholders, including senior leaders, to discuss compensation strategy, findings, and recommendations, building credibility as a trusted compensation partner
• Support Team Collaboration and Learning: Share knowledge and best practices with teammates and support onboarding, shadowing, and peer review as needed
• Collaborate Cross-functionally: Partner across teams to deliver comprehensive client solutions, troubleshoot complex issues, regularly share best practices, and support revenue teams on prospect and renewal calls
• Contribute to Process Improvement: Identify gaps in team competencies, suggest professional development opportunities, and participate in departmental process improvement that enhance service delivery

We'd love to talk with you if you have:

• 7+ years of hands-on compensation experience, including demonstrated expertise in:
  • Benchmarking and market pricing across multiple industries, geographies, and data sources
  • Salary structure design, development, and analysis
  • Job architecture, job family frameworks, and job leveling
  • Compensation strategy development and implementation
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage moderately complex to highly complex client engagements independently
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, particularly the ability to communicate compensation concepts clearly to a range of client stakeholders, including senior leaders
• Advanced Excel and data analysis capabilities
• Client-facing experience delivering consulting services or professional services to external clients
• Willingness to share compensation expertise and support the development of teammates

Nice to Have:

• Experience with global job architecture and international compensation structures
• Knowledge of variable pay structure design (incentive compensation, bonus structures)
• Experience with pay equity analysis and pay transparency initiatives
• Certification in compensation, such as CCP

Why You'd Thrive on This Team:

You're a continuous learner and curious problem-solver who thrives in ambiguity and brings creative solutions to complex compensation challenges. You're client-centric and outcomes-focused. You understand that compensation strategy isn't a one-size-fits-all. You genuinely enjoy learning about different organizations, industries, and business models. You craft tailored recommendations based on this knowledge. You have strong executive presence and are comfortable navigating both detailed analytical work and high-level strategic conversations with C-suite audiences. Perhaps most importantly, you're energized by the opportunity to be a strategic partner in clients' compensation journeys. You know that the work you do directly impacts how organizations attract, retain, and fairly compensate their talent.

Location

Payscale has an employee centric remote-first model that provides you the flexibility to do your best work in a space that supports you, while also finding time to collaborate in person for the moments that matter. In our remote-first model, employees can work from the location that works best for them. We do not have centralized corporate offices. Employees can choose to work from home, in company-paid co-working spaces, or any combination of the two that best suits their unique needs.

If you work from home, we recommend ensuring that you can meet the following technology, equipment and workspace requirements:

• High-Speed Internet - A stable broadband or fiber connection (satellite is highly discouraged) with a minimum speed of 100 Mbps in a dedicated workspace that has a reliable Wi‑Fi signal.
• Device for Multifactor Authentication (MFA/2FA) - smartphone, tablet, etc.

When it matters (usually no more than a few times a year) we take the time to gather for in-person events.

Payscale has employees across the US, Canada, UK, The Philippines and Romania however we are currently unable to hire in the Quebec Province, Northern Ireland, and Hawaii.

Benefits and Perks

All around awesome culture where together we strive to live our 5 values:

• Data informed decision making.
• Customer first. Always.
• Succeed together.
• Relentless about results. Obsessed with excellence.
• Lead the change. Shape the standard.

An open and inclusive environment where you’ll learn and grow through programs and resources like:

• Monthly company All Hands meetings
• Regular opportunities for executive leadership exposure through things like AMAs
• Access to continued learning & development opportunities
• Our commitment to a continuous feedback culture which allows us to drive performance and career growth
• A growing network of Employee Resource Groups
• Company sponsored volunteer hours
• And more!

Our more standard benefits

• Flexible paid time off, giving you the opportunity to rest, relax and recharge away from work
• 14 Paid Company Holidays, includes 2 floating holidays (you choose!)
• A comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, life, vision, disability, and life insurance covered up to 100% by Payscale
• Unlimited infertility coverage benefits through our medical plans
• Additional supplemental health benefits offered to you and your family
• 401(k) retirement program with a fully vested immediate company match
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Health Savings Account (HSA) options and company contributions each pay period
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations
• Annual remote work stipend to be used on wellness or home office equipment

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We embrace equal employment opportunity. Payscale is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. It is our policy that employees will not be subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to: recruitment, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, discipline, termination, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, education, and social and recreational programs.

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