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Mart Withers
Director of Product Marketing
BambooHR
Brian Webber
Senior HR Business Partner
PayScale

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Administrative vs. Cultural Tasks
58% of HR professionals believe HR analytics are very important,
but only 16% view themselves as an expert in using HR data.
16%

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Administrative
Tasks
● Payroll
● Benefits administration
● Time off management
● Company communication
● Compliance
● Signatures

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Culture
The summation of how people within an organization
interact with each other and work together.
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Cultural Tasks
● Long-term strategies
● Compensation strategy
● Employee satisfaction
● Talent management

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Benefits of a
Great Employee
Experience
● 28x: Fast Company’s Most
Innovative Companies
● 11.5x: Glassdoor Best Places
to Work
● 2.1x: Forbes World’s Most
Innovative Companies
● 4.4x: LinkedIn North America’s
Most In-Demand Employers
● 2x: American Customer
Satisfaction Index

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Benefits of a
Great Employee
Experience
● 4x Profit
● 2x Average revenue
● 25 percent smaller

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What’s important to measure?
● Retention
○ “bad” attrition (voluntary, high performers)
○ voluntary in first 18 months
● Employee Satisfaction
○ a measurement of an employee’s “happiness” with current role
○ it does not measure how much effort the employee is willing to expend
● Employee Engagement
○ a measurement of an employee’s emotional commitment to a company
● Recruiting
○ time to fill (speed matters)
○ quality of hire

9.
Employee
Satisfaction
Responses:
● 10-9: Promoters
● 8-7: Neutrals
● 6-0: Detractors

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(DETRACTORS/UNHAPPY) (NEUTRALS) (PROMOTERS/HAPPY)
- eNPS SCORES CAN RANGE FROM -100 TO +100
- A SCORE OF ZERO WOULDMEAN YOU HAVEAS MANY DETRACTORSAS PROMOTERS
WHAT IS
eNPS®

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Compensation is often a source of
dissatisfaction for employees as
well as why companies have a hard
time with hiring.

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How Compensation Data and
Metrics Help You Make
Competitive Offers

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I need to hire a software engineer…
How much should I pay?

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Comparing Software Developers

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Not all skills should be compensated
Ask yourself: is this skill…
● Technical or non-technical?
● Essential, useful, assumed or irrelevant?
Two ways to compensate skills:
● Include in market benchmark
● Reflect through range penetration
Most critical jobs to benchmark with skills are those where technical
skills provide important definition for the job beyond the job’s title.

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Data Allows You to Lead
With Your Best Offer

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How compensation analysis
helps you maintain fair pay
for existing employees

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What compensation data
& metrics can do for your business
● Make sure you’re paying all employees fairly
and you’re following your compensation strategy
● How does your comp plan compare to the market?
● Is it rewarding the behaviors you need to achieve to business
objectives?
● Identify over / underpaid employees
● Uncover potential gender / racial pay disparities
● Help you clearly communicate your pay rationale to employees and
managers, increasing employee satisfaction

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Are we paying competitively?
KEY METRIC
Compa Ratio: Compare employee pay to the market values for a position
to which they’re assigned at your target percentile
10.8 1.2
At market Above marketBelow market

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Do we need to adjust our salary ranges?
Key Metric: % Difference Between Range Midpoint vs. Avg. Market Value
Software Engineers in Seattle Minimum 50th percentile Max
Your Range 90,000 130,000 170,000
Market Data 140,000
Percent difference 7.7%

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Pay Compression =
To avoid pay compression, regularly benchmark your positions to the market.
● Define your “competitive” set (location, industry, org type and org size).
● Benchmark your jobs to other similar roles in the market to identify the “going rate” for a position.
● Align pay for all employees in the same or similar job to your market rate.
Pay differentials that
are too small to be
considered equitable

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Pay Equity Can Make (or Break Your Brand)

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Conduct Pay Equity
Analysis to Detect:
● Pay gaps hidden within certain job titles or departments
● Underpaid high performers and overpaid low performers
● Significant differences in promotion rates, raise frequencies/amounts,
and/or bonus eligibility for similar employees doing similar work.
● Men and women who do similar work, but are not in the same
job/level

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Practical Advice & Considerations
● Make sure to involve legal counsel throughout the process
● Conduct your pay equity analysis ahead of budgeting season in order
to create an “equity reserve” to make pay equity adjustments
● Determine your optimal communication strategy for leadership,
employees and externally. Employment brand really matters in today’s
tight talent market!
● Remember it isn’t only about pay – understand what potentially
created the inequities and how to put strategic plans in place to
avoid future problems

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Performance Management

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Four Issues with Annual Reviews
● They take too long: Managers can spend up to 210 hours per year
doing performance reviews and employees can spend up to 40 hours.
● They’re subjective: The questions often reveal more about the manager
than they do about the employee.
● They’re infrequent: It's hard to remember what happened at the
beginning of the year when completing a review at the end of the year.
● Their purpose is unclear: Is the review to improve performance, to
justify compensation decisions, or to punish mistakes?

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Quick Recap

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What’s important to measure?
● Retention
○ “bad” attrition (voluntary, high performers)
● Employee Satisfaction
○ a measurement of an employee’s “happiness” with current role
○ it does not measure how much effort the employee is willing to expend
● Employee Engagement
○ a measurement of an employee’s emotional commitment to a company
● Recruiting
○ time to fill (speed matters)
○ quality of hire

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HR Platform: Removing
Data Barriers

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Barriers to Gathering HR Data
● People have day jobs: If they don’t have the time to calculate their PTO
balance or include details in their time tracking, then they’ll choose to
focus on their duties.
● Incorrect data entry: Does the data need to be in a specific format,
especially when dealing with figures or dates? If there are requirements
your employees don’t understand, someone will have to fix mistakes.
● Poorly connected systems: If employees have to transfer data by hand,
there’s more opportunity for human error.

33.
What is an
HRIS vs HRMS
vs HCM?

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What to Look for in HR Software
● Delightful experience: How long does it take to access the software? To make
changes?
● Employee self-service: Can employees learn quickly to DIY?
Is it mobile friendly?
● Seamless integrations: Does the software integrate with other tools that you
use in HR, such as payroll programs, compensation management platforms,
performance management tools, ATS, time tracking, etc.?
● Support: How exceptional are people who can support and guide
you to success in implementing, rolling out and using the platform
you choose?

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Takeaways
For HR Data to be useful, it’s important to put it in the
context of your values and objectives.
● Ongoing analysis helps keep your policies in
alignment with what your employees value
● Compensation analysis helps ensure fair pay
and helps you avoid salary compression
● An HR platform and satisfaction data help you
spot trends in your long-term experience
● Regular performance management provides
ground-level data and offers a chance to
improve the employee experience.

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