Walters Comp Consulting

Compensation Advisory Services
Need help planning or executing your Compensation plans? Let us guide you. Any organization can move forward with small incremental changes, but building for the future in today’s rapidly evolving environment means taking chances and making insightful decisions.

General Overview of Areas our team can help yours:

Compensation Benchmarking
In addition to answering the question of “how” to pay, our clients need to determine “how much” to pay. Compensation benchmarking provides an external quantitative answer to how much other comparable companies are paying similarly situated positions. With our extensive analytical resources and access to the highest quality compensation databases to performance benchmarking for our clients, including the following actions:

-Peer group development and survey evaluation
-Position matching
-Total compensation benchmarking
-Equity incentive and valuation methodologies
-Short- and long-term incentive plan design comparisons

Performance Alignment
Investors expect pay to closely reflect company performance. We help companies assess the pay and performance alignment of their compensation programs and to design pay arrangements that create strong alignment between performance and pay outcomes. Our alignment services include:

-Performance metric evaluation and selection
-Application in short- and long-term incentives
-Degree of stretch and range around target performance levels
-Realized compensation assessments

Executive Compensation
With years of experience, our staff has the capabilities and expertise to take your business to the next level. Our technical resources regularly perform:

-Custom peer group selection and performance/pay analysis
-External market studies and job pricings
-Competitive market valuations for salary, bonus, long-term incentives, benefits and perquisites.
-Pay and performance alignment
-Best practice and emerging trends research
-Interactive modeling of proposed compensation programs and business strategy

Technical Support Services
Other technical support we provide clients includes:

-Special program design, implementation and communications
-Long-term incentive plan design and shareholder approval
-Annual and long-term metrics selection, hurdle selection, and modeling
-Pay element mix selection to ensure consistency with total rewards strategy
-Company differentiator identification and the success factors for inclusion in reward plans
-Review of checks and balances to reward structure, goal setting and pay-out curves
-Annual risk assessment of compensation programs, metrics, governance practices and outcomes

Program Design
Compensation and benefit programs should support value creation while attracting and retaining the critical talent you need to execute your business strategy. We examine what organizations are doing to stay relevant and competitive in this fast-paced world, and which ones are doing it best. We then strategize using smart tools and global resources in order to understand the implications of every choice our clients can make. Walters Comp Consulting begins each client relationship by ensuring we have a solid understanding of your business objectives and identifying how your organization may be unique. To this business understanding we bring our deep knowledge of effective compensation design, experience with clients and extensive data on current market practices and trends. Our program design work includes:

-Peer group development
-Compensation survey evaluation
-Position matching
-Comparison of all pay elements, including base salary, target bonus and long-term incentives
-Review of long-term incentive valuation methodologies
-Plan design comparisons, including short-term and long-term incentives, stock ownership guidelines, perquisites, etc