What would you read in your first three months in compensation?

Add a basic statistics refresher: percentiles, weighted versus simple averages, and regression at the level of drawing a line through points. Two evenings. It stops you nodding along in meetings without understanding.

From recruitment you already know something most analysts do not: what candidates actually turn down offers for. Keep a note of that as you read. It will make the theory less abstract.

I would not start with a textbook at all, with respect to the first reply. I read 200 pages in my first month and retained very little. I learned faster by taking one live question from my manager each week and working it end to end, then reading the relevant chapter afterwards.

Thank you. I am doing a mix: one live question a week, and I rebuilt the range for our senior developer grade from the survey data. My midpoint came out 4 per cent below the one in use, and working out why took a whole afternoon.