Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
Conduct programs of compensation and benefits and job analysis for employer. May specialize in specific areas, such as position classification and pension programs.
Also known as: Benefit Programs Specialist, Benefits Administrator (Benefits Admin), Benefits Analyst, Benefits Consultant, Benefits Coordinator, Benefits Professional, Benefits Representative (Benefits Rep), Benefits Specialist, ...
Annual Salary
Median annual wage (May 2024)
Job Outlook
Projected growth, 2024–2034 (Faster than average)
What You'd Do
- Ensure company compliance with federal and state laws, including reporting requirements.
- Advise managers and employees on state and federal employment regulations, collective agreements, benefit and compensation policies, personnel procedures, and classification programs.
- Assist in preparing and maintaining personnel records and handbooks.
- Administer employee insurance, pension, and savings plans, working with insurance brokers and plan carriers.
- Research employee benefit and health and safety practices, and recommend changes or modifications to existing policies.
- Plan and develop curricula and materials for training programs and conduct training.
- Evaluate job positions, determining classification, exempt or non-exempt status, and salary.
- Plan, develop, evaluate, improve, and communicate methods and techniques for selecting, promoting, compensating, evaluating, and training workers.
- Provide advice on the resolution of classification and salary complaints.
- Prepare occupational classifications, job descriptions, and salary scales.
- Prepare reports, such as organization and flow charts and career path reports, to summarize job analysis and evaluation and compensation analysis information.
- Negotiate collective agreements on behalf of employers or workers, and mediate labor disputes and grievances.
- Develop, implement, administer, and evaluate personnel and labor relations programs, including performance appraisal, affirmative action, and employment equity programs.
- Perform multifactor data and cost analyses that may be used in areas such as support of collective bargaining agreements.
- Analyze organizational, occupational, and industrial data to facilitate organizational functions and provide technical information to business, industry, and government.
- Advise staff of individuals' qualifications.
- Assess need for and develop job analysis instruments and materials.
- Research job and worker requirements, structural and functional relationships among jobs and occupations, and occupational trends.
- Observe, interview, and survey employees and conduct focus group meetings to collect job, organizational, and occupational information.
- Consult with, or serve as, technical liaison between business, industry, government, and union officials.
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Salary data: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2024. Outlook data: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–2034.
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