Services
Skeates Consulting Can Be:
- Your “Virtual Compensation Manager” if your organization is complex enough to need the expertise of a specialist but can’t add another HR employee.
- Your Project Manager and Subject Matter Expert for compensation and performance management projects.
- An “extra pair of hands” if you have a large project but not enough internal resources to accomplish the goal on time.
Representative Projects
Market Pricing and Compensation Structure Development – To create equitable pay programs and policies for a fast-growing pre-IPO technology company, market priced 50 jobs, developed pay grade structure, defined job families, and slotted all company jobs into structure.
Compensation Program Integration – Following an acquisition, worked with a technology company to integrate two companies’ compensation policies and structures into a common scheme.
Compliance Audit – Assessed benefits and payroll processes and documents for compliance with regulations and reporting requirements for 250-employee high technology manufacturing company.
Compensation Structure and Policy Development – Wrote job descriptions for 70 jobs at a manufacturing company, and developed grade structure in order to ensure market-based pay levels and ease pay administration complexity.
Employee Focus Groups – To assist management in developing appropriate management policies and programs for a manufacturing company emerging from bankruptcy, conducted focus groups to gauge employee opinions, especially those related to performance management and human resources policies.
IPG Employee Benefits and Compensation Survey – Develop and manage annual survey of New Hampshire and Vermont employers in the Monadnock and Connecticut River Valley areas. Now in its fourth year, this survey of more than 70 employers fills a crucial need for objectively gathered and summarized pay and benefits data for this geographic region.
New Hampshire Survey Group – Manage annual compensation survey for a membership organization of New Hampshire employers. Designed electronic input forms downloadable from web for more efficient data collection. Compile and scrub participant data, and develop final report.