Compensation benchmarking, or salary surveys are exercises conducted to identify levels and boundaries related to pay grades for a set of positions. Ideally a benchmarking exercises should be undertaken keeping a sample of comparable companies in related business or businesses employing similar manpower. Ideally, the business size has to be near similar – but we…
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Do startups and small companies need a formal compensation benchmarking exercise?
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•Last year, the CEO of a small IT company asked my firm to undertake a compensation benchmarking exercise to identify compensation of similar manpower in comparable businesses. They wanted benchmarks for the software developers, design guys, and other operations team members in the business. They wanted adequate data to be able to make informed decision…