Designing a Salary Structure

Creating a Fair, Transparent, and Competitive Pay Framework

Designing a Salary Structure That Supports Your Business Growth

We help businesses develop tailored salary frameworks that align with industry benchmarks, business objectives, and help to manage employee expectations. Whether you’re establishing a new structure or refining an existing one, we ensure your approach to pay is strategic, equitable, and future-proof.

How We Can Help

We work closely with you to design a salary structure that:

  • Supports Business Objectives – Aligns pay with company goals, ensuring long-term sustainability.
  • Ensures Fairness & Transparency – Provides clarity on pay progression, reducing uncertainty and improving retention.
  • Enhances Recruitment & Retention – Positions your organisation competitively within the market.
  • Drives Employee Motivation & Performance – Links salaries to skills, experience, and performance to encourage development.
  • Manages Costs Effectively – Helps control payroll spend while offering competitive rewards.

Reward ReviewS

Our Reward Review service helps businesses assess their current pay, benefits, and incentives to ensure they remain competitive, cost-effective, and aligned with company objectives.

Why Conduct a Reward Review?

  • Ensure Market Competitiveness – Benchmark salaries and benefits against industry standards.
  • Improve Employee Motivation & Retention – Identify gaps that may impact engagement and loyalty.
  • Align Rewards with Business Strategy – Ensure pay structures and benefits support your long-term goals.
  • Control Costs & Maximise Value – Streamline reward packages for efficiency without compromising appeal.
  • Enhance Fairness & Transparency – Foster trust by ensuring consistency and clarity in your reward approach.

Our Approach

  1. Understanding Your Business Needs
    We start by assessing your current pay structures, benchmarking salaries against industry standards, and identifying key business challenges.
  2. Developing a Tailored Salary Framework
    Using market data and internal analysis, we design a salary structure that defines pay grades, salary bands, and clear progression routes.
  3. Consultation & Communication
    We will work with you to devise and roll out the consultation and communication strategies you need to help your workforce understand what’s changing, what’s new and how the proposals will impact them personally. If you need to involve unions in consultation or negotiation, you can count on us to lead or support those discussions, in whichever way works best for you.
  4. Implementation
    As your business evolves, we provide regular reviews to keep your salary framework competitive and aligned with market trends.

Why Choose Us?

Expertise in salary benchmarking and pay structuring

  • A strategic approach tailored to your business needs
  • Focus on fairness, transparency, and long-term sustainability
  • Support with implementation, employee communication, and ongoing reviews

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