There is a moment that most compensation professionals recognize. The deal closes, the handshakes happen, and someone in HR gets an email — or sometimes just an invitation to a meeting — that says, effectively: “We need to figure out pay.”
That email usually arrives with a project code, a timeline, and a set of deliverables that feel manageable. Normalize the job descriptions. Align the career levels. Merge the pay ranges. Six months to a year. Done.
