Samir DelaneyCBS, CEP
Senior Compensation Analyst at Silverline Media
Sydney, Australia
125 points1 ribbon4 discussions15 replies1 answer accepted
Senior Compensation Analyst at Silverline Media
Sydney, Australia
125 points1 ribbon4 discussions15 replies1 answer accepted
Mentors in Benchmarking, Job Evaluation
Consultant turned practitioner. I know what the Benchmarking frameworks promise and what they do once they meet a real org chart.
Asked in Job Architecture & Careers ·
Acting-up and interim appointments: do they count at the acting level, or sit outside it?
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Asked in Job Architecture & Careers ·
Where should a technical ladder top out when directors sit two levels above it?
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Replied to in Job Architecture & Careers ·
Has anyone actually held the line on title requests that push people up a grade?
This gives me something to take to the VP. Going with windows-only regrades, a short approved list of working titles, and a quarterly distribution report to fun
Posted in Sydney Chapter ·
WGEA gap publication: how did your employer respond?
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Replied to in Sydney Chapter ·
Superannuation changes and total rewards statements
We moved everyone to base plus super in 2023 for exactly this reason. It cost about 0.5 percent of payroll to convert the inclusive contracts fairly, and since
Replied to in Global & Mobility ·
Granting RSUs to staff in Vietnam and Nigeria: is cash settlement the only practical route?
Small disagreement with treating cash units as equivalent. They pay out at vest, so nobody holds anything afterwards. If part of the point of the plan is that e
Replied to in Compensation ·
Lump sums for people at the range maximum: how large, and do they count for pension?
On pension, get proper advice for your own scheme rules before deciding. In our defined benefit section the definition of pensionable pay was wide enough that w
Replied to in Job Architecture & Careers ·
Our local exceptions register: 41 entries, and the rule that stops it growing
They keep it personally, flagged as a legacy placement, but the role is advertised at the framework level when it is next filled. We had seven of those in the f
Replied to in Compensation ·
We cut midpoint progression from 15% to 10% between grades and I would not do it again
On conversion: it cost us 0.4% of payroll to bring people to new minimums, which was less than feared. The cost came later, in regrading. And I accept the point
Replied to in Job Architecture & Careers ·
Lesson learned: we launched career paths before the levels had settled
We did both at once at a Brazilian fintech of about 1,100, and got away with it only because we published paths for three families as a declared pilot and said
Replied to in Job Architecture & Careers ·
Job descriptions go stale in about 14 months. A lighter way we keep them current
We went the other way and shortened the documents so there is less to go stale. Each job is now a half page: purpose, five accountabilities, level, family. Task
Replied to in Job Architecture & Careers ·
Eighteen months running a skills taxonomy beside job families: an honest account
On stale profiles: we stopped asking people to maintain them. Skills are inferred from project assignments and completed learning, and the employee corrects rat
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Eighteen months running a skills taxonomy beside job families: an honest account
No counter-view from me. We priced a handful of 'hot' skills as premiums on top of the range at a US technology company and it lasted two years. By then 60% of
Posted in Compensation ·
Skill premiums inside a grade structure, eighteen months on: what held and what did not
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Replied to in Global & Mobility ·
Pricing a country manager role in Uzbekistan when no survey covers it?
Careful with that. Recruiters paid on a percentage of salary have told me the market was 30% higher than it turned out to be more than once. Expectations are an
Replied to in Global & Mobility ·
Comparing India and Mexico offers in a global range when so much pay sits in allowances?
Agree, and a warning on India: decide who controls the split between basic and allowances. Basic drives retirement fund contributions and gratuity, so if every
Answered in Global & Mobility ·
Eight months in Monterrey: per diem, allowance or a light assignment package?
✓ Accepted answer · Your tax team is right to be nervous about full per diems for eight months. In our case the home authorities stopped treating them as travel expenses after a se
Replied to in Job Architecture & Careers ·
The project team disbands next month. Who should own the job architecture after that?
I disagree that it must be compensation. In our Swedish organisation it sits with a small organisation design team, because the commonest reason for a new job i
Replied to in New Member Welcome ·
Three months in: what helped me most as a newcomer here
I remember your introduction. For newer members, I would add one thing to the list: come back to your own threads and say what happened. It is the reason people
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