Staff Research Assistant

American Corporation for Public Well Being; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

American Corporation for Public Well Being is seeking an entry-level Staff Research Assistant to begin a career in compensation benchmarking and market pricing. You will work with experienced advisors, contribute to real deliverables from week one, and gain training through the ACPWB Analyst Development Program.

You will join ACPWB's Workforce Analytics team, supporting research on compensation data, proxy statements, and client engagements, while developing professional-grade analytical skills

Qualifications

• Interest in compensation, human capital, or workforce research as a professional focus.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with attention to detail and grammatical precision.
• Recent graduate or candidate with up to 2 years of relevant internship or work experience.
• Ability to work accurately under deadline pressure in a client-services environment.
• Comfortable working in a structured environment with defined standards and quality expectations.
• Comfortable working with large spreadsheets and structured data.

Responsibilities

• Complete assigned compliance, ethics, and professional development training modules on schedule.
• Support the collection and organization of proxy statement and SEC filing data.
• Research compensation and workforce data relevant to specific client engagements in compensation benchmarking and market pricing.
• Provide research support for ACPWB thought leadership publications and white papers on compensation benchmarking and market pricing.
• Assist with survey administration including data collection follow-up and respondent tracking.

Skills

Interest in compensation

Attention to detail

Recent graduate

Deadline-driven

Structured data experience

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

Workforce Analytics Entry Level Full-Time, Exempt

About The Role

ACPWB is looking for a Staff Research Assistant with a genuine interest in compensation benchmarking and market pricing and the discipline to develop professional-grade analytical skills. If you are the kind of person who read the job description and wanted to know more, you are probably the kind of person we are looking for. The ACPWB Analyst Development Program will give you structure. Your Practice Lead will give you context. The rest is up to you.

The Staff Research Assistant is an entry point into ACPWB's Workforce Analytics practice for candidates who are serious about building a career in compensation benchmarking and market pricing. You will work alongside experienced advisors and analysts, contributing to real deliverables from your first week. This is not a coffee-and-copies role. We expect genuine effort and genuine curiosity. We will provide genuine training.

ACPWB's Workforce Analytics team of 10 is adding a Staff Research Assistant to support growing demand in compensation benchmarking and market pricing. You do not need years of experience to succeed in this role — you need intellectual honesty, attention to detail, and the ability to ask a good question. We will teach you everything else through the ACPWB Analyst Development Program and through direct involvement in real analytical work.

Key Responsibilities

• Complete assigned compliance, ethics, and professional development training modules on schedule
• Support the collection and organization of proxy statement and SEC filing data
• Research compensation and workforce data relevant to specific client engagements in compensation benchmarking and market pricing
• Provide research support for ACPWB thought leadership publications and white papers on compensation benchmarking and market pricing
• Assist with survey administration including data collection follow-up and respondent tracking

Qualifications

Required

• Interest in compensation, human capital, or workforce research as a professional focus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with attention to detail and grammatical precision
• Recent graduate or candidate with up to 2 years of relevant internship or work experience
• Ability to work accurately under deadline pressure in a client-services environment
• Comfort working in a structured environment with defined standards and quality expectations
• Comfortable working with large spreadsheets and structured data

Preferred

• Experience with professional writing — reports, memos, or analytical summaries
• Demonstrated commitment to professional development, including self-directed learning
• Knowledge of basic statistical concepts including mean, median, percentile, and regression
• Familiarity with proxy statements, annual reports, or SEC filings
• Interest in Milwaukee and the Midwest as a place to build a professional career

WHY ACPWB

In eighteen years, ACPWB has grown from a boutique Milwaukee advisory practice into a nationally recognized firm without losing the culture that made it worth building. People who joined in 2006 and 2010 and 2015 are still here. We believe that is evidence of something worth naming.

ACPWB was founded in Milwaukee in 2006 with a simple mandate: help working Americans understand and advocate for the compensation they deserve. Eighteen years later, that mandate has grown into a full-service research and advisory practice serving clients from early-stage employers to Fortune 50 enterprises — and we are still based in Milwaukee, because Milwaukee is genuinely underrated.

INTERVIEW PROCESS

Our process has three stages: application review, a 45-minute screen with the hiring manager, and a final panel. We tell candidates what to expect before each step and provide an outcome within five business days of any interview. We do not leave candidates wondering.

What Success Looks Like In Year One

• Ask good questions consistently — about methodology, about client context, about why we do things the way we do
• Take ownership of at least one recurring team responsibility — a data update, a tracking log, a template — and execute it reliably
• Complete at least one professional development activity outside ACPWB — webinar, workshop, or certification module
• Demonstrate the ability to independently manage a small, well-defined research task from start to finish

Applications for this position are being accepted through October 6, 2026.