Our Mission
Blue Whale Compensation builds compensation programs that work — and keeps them working through tech. We partner with HR leaders, executives, and boards to solve compensation challenges through targeted consulting and our proprietary platform, BlueComp. Designed for organizations that need structure without the complexity of enterprise systems, BlueComp gives clients a way to manage compensation long after the project ends — no spreadsheets, no subscriptions, no guesswork.
What We Do
We solve compensation problems and give organizations the tools to manage them moving forward. Our work covers executive pay, salary structure development, market benchmarking, internal equity, and pay transparency compliance. Each engagement includes access to BlueComp, our compensation management platform built for lean teams and complex demands — without the cost or weight of enterprise systems. This isn’t software for show. It’s software that sticks.
How We Do It
We don’t sell templates or shelf-ready plans. We work directly with leadership and HR to design compensation frameworks that match how the organization runs. Each project is built around BlueComp, which allows clients to maintain job structures, track market movement, and make salary decisions without external systems or spreadsheet chaos. We don’t just design. We operationalize — and we leave behind a system that holds up.
Meet your Project Partners
Juan P. Garcia
After serving over 20 years in the roles of Director of Organizational Research and Director of Compensation at full-scale Human Resources Consulting firms, Juan decided to pursue opportunities to allow him to leverage the use of technology to make services more accessible to companies of all sizes and industries.
Vivian Caldera
For over 15 years, Vivian has specialized in Compensation Consulting. She has provided expertise in academia, medicine, banking, engineering, and many more.
Sandra Dee Bufalini
Ms. Bufalini’s professional background includes 33 years of professional/managerial compensation and benefits experience. Twenty-one of these years worked in the public sector at California State University (CSU), both at the Pomona and San Bernardino campuses.
Her responsibilities include compensation and classification studies, conducting classification reviews and appeals, providing equity salary analyses, participating in salary surveys/benchmarking positions, and implementing reorganizations in a Union environment.
Most recently, Ms. Bufalini worked Compensation Consultant for A. J. Gallagher, serving public sector employers (Cities, Counties, and Municipalities).
Success Stories
Hispanas Organized for Political Equality
Blue Whale, provided a comprehensive report, which I have been able to use to help plan out my staffing strategy. He is a wonderful listener, met every deadline, and treated my organization and me with respect. I truly enjoyed working with him on this project.
Code for Science & Society
The team at Blue Whale Compensation demonstrates a deeply-rooted investment in providing client services that are thorough, applicable, and lasting. The team’s principal, Juan Garcia, provided our organization with tools that we will be using to shape intentional growth for years to come!
Global Fund for Women
Once we started working on the project, Juan became a wonderful thought partner. He not only answered my questions but helped me think through the reasons for his answers. What I appreciated the most was that Juan was more a teacher helping me learn than he was a consultant who simply did all the work.
Reality Changers
Blue Whale Comp was a valuable resource and an excellent partner in creating an updated compensation plan for our non-profit. His expertise enabled us to not only access and review competitive market data, but also make research-based recommendations for updating our pay structure and incentives.
Community Food Club
Our small nonprofit had never done any kind of compensation reviews before and I was nervous about our project. Juan was very thoughtful, trustworthy, and professional. His compensation report helped our board of directors make informed decisions regarding wages for our team.
Blue Whale is a one-stop shop for all of your consulting needs. Juan is very knowledgeable, helpful, and responsive to all of our needs. He developed and delivered an easy to administer compensation program and took the time to thoroughly train the Human Resources team and provide them the tools to successfully classify new and updated positions. We couldn’t recommend him enough.
Engagements Scope
About Blue Whale Compensation LLC
Blue Whale Compensation Services, a subsidiary of SABAC Ventures, is a consulting firm that provides compensation advisory services to employers and consulting businesses in the US, Canada, and Latin America.
Blue Whale’s mission is to improve a client’s enterprise's competitiveness by conducting human capital modeling and offering scalable online solutions that add value to total reward programs, compensation functions, employee benefits, and employee perks.
SABAC Ventures specializes in Human Capital Consulting, which enables companies to achieve best-in-class performance levels.
SABAC Ventures is a data-centric organization and embraces the development of open Human Capital Management (HCM) systems.