3. Meet today’s panellists
Ashton Holt
Associate Partner and
Practice Leader, Global
People Analytics
Aon
Ruth Thomas
Chief Product
Evangelist
Payscale
Doug Tapp
Total Rewards
Consulting Leader
Deloitte Consulting
Tom Mcmullen
Sr. Client Partner and Total
Rewards Expertise Leader
Korn Ferry
Richard Nassar
Chief Strategy Officer
USC Race & Equity
Center
4. Today’s agenda
Five questions for discussion with the panelists
1. Why this shift and a more strategic stance on pay equity?
2. What does pay or workforce equity across the talent lifecycle look like?
3. What impact do you think pay transparency laws and other emerging legislation will have?
4. How widely is this being adopted?
5. What do you think employers should be prioritizing next?
Audience Q&A
5. Is pay equity analysis a
planned or current initiative at
your organization?
• Yes
• No
• Not sure
Let’s start with a quick poll
6. Is pay equity analysis a planned or current initiative
at your organization?
Pay equity intent is on the rise.
For the first time in the history of
CBPR, pay equity analysis is now
something a majority of organizations
are planning on doing.
Source: Payscale’s 2022 Compensation Best Practices Report
7. Source: Payscale’s 2022 Compensation Best Practices Report
Why is pay equity
a planned or
current initiative?
(rank top 3 in order
of importance)
8. There is growing
recognition that
sustainable pay
equity is the
end goal.
Source: Payscale’s 2022 Compensation Best Practices Report
10. Why this shift and a more strategic
stance on pay equity?
Ashton Holt
Associate Partner and
Practice Leader, Global
People Analytics
Aon
Richard Nassar
Chief Strategy Officer
USC Race & Equity
Center
Tom Mcmullen
Sr. Client Partner and Total
Rewards Expertise Leader
Korn Ferry
11. What does pay or workforce equity across
the talent lifecycle look like?
Doug Tapp
Total Rewards
Consulting Leader
Deloitte Consulting
Ruth Thomas
Chief ProductEvangelist
Payscale
Richard Nassar
Chief Strategy Officer
USC Race & Equity Center
12. What impact do you think pay transparency
laws and other emerging legislation will have?
Ruth Thomas
Chief ProductEvangelist
Payscale
Tom Mcmullen
Sr. Client Partner and Total
Rewards Expertise Leader
Korn Ferry
13. What is preventing your organization
from reaching your pay transparency
target? (select all that apply)
• We lack confidence in the accuracy of our salary data
• We don't have organized pay structures (e.g. job based
ranges)
• We are not confident in our pay strategy or structures
• We are concerned that we have pay inequity issues
• Leadership is unconvinced in the merits of pay
transparency
• Nothing - We're satisfied with our level of pay transparency
Tell us what you think
14. How widely is a commitment to Pay Equity
being adopted?
Doug Tapp
Total Rewards
Consulting Leader
Deloitte Consulting
Tom Mcmullen
Sr. Client Partner and Total
Rewards Expertise Leader
Korn Ferry
Ashton Holt
Associate Partner and
Practice Leader, Global
People Analytics
Aon
15. Ashton Holt
Associate Partner and
Practice Leader, Global
People Analytics
Aon
Ruth Thomas
Chief Product
Evangelist
Payscale
Doug Tapp
Total Rewards
Consulting Leader
Deloitte Consulting
Tom Mcmullen
Sr. Client Partner and Total
Rewards Expertise Leader
Korn Ferry
Richard Nassar
Chief Strategy Officer
USC Race & Equity
Center
What do you think employers should be
prioritizing next?
16. What do you think employers should be
prioritizing next?
Review and resolve inconsistency in job architecture
1
2
3
Place emphasis on pay equity maintenance post-
assessment
Formalize strategy and approach for improving pay
transparency
Ashton Holt
Associate Partner and Practice Leader,
Global People Analytics
17. What do you think employers should be
prioritizing next?
Start by starting, if you have not done so
yet.
1
2
3
Understand how to move to a
sustainable pay equity approach.
Measure effectiveness – both operational
and perception.
Tom Mcmullen
Sr. Client Partner and Total
Rewards Expertise Leader
18. What do you think employers should be
prioritizing next?
Get executive buy-in to an ongoing commitment to
fair pay.
1
2
3
Build consistent practices and governance across
the compensation cycle.
Ruth Thomas
Chief ProductEvangelist
Revisit your compensation philosophy and
challenge what role fair pay plays in this.
19. What do you think employers should be
prioritizing next?
1
2
3
Richard Nassar
Chief Strategy Officer
Quality and completeness of employee
demographics and experience data.
Regular and periodic reviews of policies and
procedures pertaining to compensation.
Value qualitative findings of pay equity
study as well as quantitative (statistical)
findings.
20. What do you think employers should be
prioritizing next?
Ask and answer the question of why fair pay matters
to your business.
1
2
3
Make a commitment to ‘fair pay’ and conduct analyses
to understand the real numbers behind the words.
Discuss the concept of transparency and determine
what elements of your study will be communicated to
your workforce.
Doug Tapp
Total Rewards
Consulting Leader
21. Tell us what you think
Which of these actions do you
think you will make your priority?
• Get leadership buy in
• Ask and answer the question of why fair pay
matters to your business
• Commit to undertake analyses
• Aim to collect quality employee
demographics and experience data
• Understand how to move to a sustainable
pay equity approach
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23. Ashton Holt
Associate Partner and
Practice Leader, Global
People Analytics
Aon
Thank you
Ruth Thomas
Chief Product
Evangelist
Payscale
Doug Tapp
Total Rewards
Consulting Leader
Deloitte Consulting
Tom Mcmullen
Sr. Client Partner and Total
Rewards Expertise Leader
Korn Ferry
Richard Nassar
Chief Strategy Officer
USC Race & Equity
Center
Vicky Peakman
Director of Social Impact
Payscale