Total Rewards and Compensation Support
Total compensation benchmarking, benefits analysis, incentive design, and pay transparency support employers
Are we paying competitively?
Are our benefits worth the cost?
Are our bonuses actually driving performance?
Do employees understand the full value of what we provide?
If those questions keep coming up, a total rewards review can help.
We evaluate your full compensation package, including base pay, bonuses and incentives, benefits, and pay practices, so you can invest your budget where it has the most impact. The result is a program that is competitive, equitable, and aligned with your business goals.
What Is a Total Compensation or Total Rewards Assessment?
A total rewards assessment looks at everything employees receive in exchange for their work, not just salary.
This typically includes:
- Base pay and salary ranges
- Incentive and bonus programs
- Health, retirement, and paid time off benefits
- Employer contributions and benefit costs
- Living wage alignment
- Pay transparency and communication practices
By reviewing all components together, you get a clearer picture of competitiveness, fairness, and return on investment.
Why This Matters
Looking at pay or benefits in isolation often leads to overspending in some areas and underinvesting in others.
A comprehensive review helps you:
- Stay competitive in your labor market, whether you’re in Oregon and Washington or beyond
- Attract and retain talent
- Improve employee engagement and understanding of total rewards
- Align incentives with performance and business results
- Identify gaps, redundancies, or misaligned spending
- Support pay equity and fairness
- Make smarter, data driven budget decisions
It helps you get more value from every compensation dollar.
Our Total Rewards Services Include
Total Compensation Benchmarking
Compare your base pay, variable pay, and benefits to multiple reliable market data sources to assess overall competitiveness and alignment.
Benefits Market Analysis
Evaluate medical, dental, vision, retirement, paid time off, and other benefits against market norms to identify over or under investment and opportunities to adjust employer contributions.
Incentive and Variable Pay Review
Assess bonus, commission, and performance programs to ensure they motivate the right behaviors, align with organizational goals, and remain competitive.
Living Wage Assessments
Compare pay to local cost of living and living wage benchmarks to understand whether compensation supports employees’ basic needs and organizational values.
Total Rewards Statements
Create clear, personalized statements that show employees the full value of their pay and benefits, improving appreciation and engagement.
Pay Transparency Support
Develop practical communication strategies, guidelines, and tools to explain how pay decisions are made and increase trust while supporting compliance.
When a Total Rewards Review Makes Sense
This is especially helpful if you are:
- Struggling to recruit or retain employees
- Unsure whether your benefits are competitive
- Redesigning incentive or bonus plans
- Managing rising benefit costs
- Preparing for compensation or equity initiatives
- Updating your compensation strategy
- Improving pay transparency and communication
- Growing, merging, or restructuring
If compensation decisions feel fragmented, a holistic review brings everything back together.
FAQs
Total compensation typically refers to pay and benefits. Total rewards is broader and may include recognition, flexibility, and other elements. Most employers use the terms interchangeably when reviewing pay, benefits, and incentives together.