Get a Free Expert Review
of Your Compensation Plan
Blue Whale offers a no-cost courtesy assessment of your compensation practices and policies — measured against recommended best practices. Complete the assessment and we’ll schedule a 30-minute consultation with one of our senior consultants to walk through our findings.
Start the Free Assessment →Most organizations don’t know what they don’t know when it comes to compensation. Our assessment gives you an objective, outside-in view of where your pay program stands — and a clear picture of what to address first.
We benchmark your practices against industry standards and best practices — not what’s easy or comfortable, but what’s effective and defensible.
Once we review your responses, a Blue Whale senior consultant will meet with you to present findings and answer your specific questions.
You’ll leave the call with a clear understanding of your compensation program’s strengths, gaps, and prioritized next steps.
What the Assessment Covers
The assessment is comprehensive by design. It takes 10–15 minutes to complete and covers the full spectrum of compensation program elements — so our consultants arrive at your call prepared with specific, relevant insights.
Whether you have a written plan, a compensation philosophy, and how well that philosophy is understood across your organization.
How your organization’s pay compares to the relevant labor market — below, at, above, or significantly above — and whether you’re benchmarking base pay or total cash.
Whether you rely on market pricing, job evaluation, ranking, or another method to set pay — and how current your market data is.
Whether variable pay programs exist, whether written bonus plans are in place, and whether they’re formally communicated to participants.
How your performance rating system connects (or doesn’t) to salary decisions, and the depth of your performance evaluation framework.
Whether a formal grade and range structure exists, how it was built, how often it’s updated, and what employees are told about it.
What information about the pay program is shared with employees — from individual ranges to the organization’s compensation philosophy.
The types of adjustments made — merit, COLA, market, equity, promotional, or differential — and whether they reflect a coherent pay strategy.
How (or whether) your organization measures whether the compensation program is actually working — retention, productivity, satisfaction, or cost control.
How It Works
Fill out both steps of the online form. It takes 10–15 minutes and covers your current compensation practices in depth.
A Blue Whale consultant analyzes your answers against compensation best practices and prepares findings specific to your organization.
We schedule a call to walk through our findings, answer your questions, and give you a prioritized set of recommendations.
Whether you engage us further or not, you walk away with real clarity on where your program stands and what to tackle first.
Start Your Free Assessment
The assessment is two steps. Step 1 collects your contact and company information. Step 2 covers your compensation practices. Once submitted, a Blue Whale associate will reach out to schedule your complimentary 30-minute consultation.
