Base Pay Toolkit
The StrategicPay® Series Base Pay Toolkit was designed to help organizations that want to build a professionally-designed market-based base pay compensation programs without the need to hire an outside compensation consultant.
The StrategicPay® Series Base Pay Toolkit was developed by highly-experienced compensation consultants, to help non-consultant HR and compensation professionals to create a technically-sound and professional market-based base pay compensation programs (with expert guidance, tools and templates in the form of Word, PDF, Excel and PowerPoint templates ready for your use via this website). (See a list of tools and templates here). The authors have built dozens of these programs (often from "scratch") for a wide variety of organizations, and are now sharing their experience, tools and templates with the users of this one-of-a-kind guide.
And to get 2010 started off right, we have temporarily lowered our pricing on the Base Pay Toolkit from $1,500 to $999 for for a limited period to celebrate the first revision of the toolkit (copyright 2010!) and to get ready for the release of the upcoming Performance Management Toolkit, around mid-year. The modifiable soft-copy templates in the Base Pay Toolkit alone are worth several thousands of dollars, if you hired someone to develop them, or calculated the value of your time spent to develop them on your own.
See the table of contents here.
Product licensees' will have the option of purchasing small blocks of compensation consultant time to help guide them through the "minefield" of developing your organizations' compensation program on your own. The consulting time is purely optional though, as the series is designed to provide the user with everything they need to DIY (except for pay data, where the needs vary considerably by the type company developing the program). The first 30 minutes of consultation time is complementary, to help each user get off on the right foot in using the toolkit.
A few more details:
- Title: StrategicPay® Series - Base Pay Toolkit
- Release date: July 2009; completely revised, updated and republished in January 2010
- Contents: custom binder for instructional written materials, and website access to tools, files and templates for licensed users
- Cost: $1,500 $999 for a limited time in early 2010 (plus sales tax for WA State residents)
- Available from: this website
- Consultants available: the authors themselves! (And eventually other fully-competent and licensed consultants)
About the Authors:
Doug Sayed, SPHR, CCP, StrategicPay® Series developer, author, product manager, and overall series editor
Doug Sayed is founder and principal of Applied HR Strategies, Inc. a Seattle-area compensation consulting firm and the developer of the StrategicPay® Series. Doug is a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) and has also earned Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification. Early in his HR/compensation career, Doug earned a Master's Degree in Human Resource Management from Ohio State University, and now has over 25 years of experience in the field. He is also an instructor and occasionally-published author with WorldatWork, the leading association for compensation professionals in North America.
Prior to the development of the StrategicPay® Series, he was the developer and publisher of the leading northwest regional salary surveys covering the technology and biotechnology sectors (now part of the Culpepper and Associates family of surveys).
Jill Odegard, PHR, CCP, Base Pay Toolkit co-author and co-product manager
Jill is Vice President and Sr. Consultant with Applied HR Strategies, and co-product manager for the StrategicPay® Series. She has worked in the Human Resources field for over 10 years in various HR management capacities, and specializes in compensation and benefits. She earned her Professional in Human Resources (PHR) designation as well as the Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) certification via WorldatWork. Jill graduated from Central Washington University with a BS in Business and a minor in Human Resources. Jill is an expert in the development of base pay compensation programs.
Karen Cummings, PhD, PHR, CCP, StrategicPay® Series Base Pay Toolkit co-author and editor
Since earning her MS at Michigan State University and her PhD at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Karen has contributed over 18 years to the discipline of human resources management through serving on the faculty at Michigan State University and through holding compensation management practitioner roles with companies such as Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Starbucks Corporation. Karen has expertise in building base pay programs, performance management systems, pay communications and training programs, and modeling and administering incentive plan designs.
