Q3 Signer Briefing

Be Prepared: A conversation on wage transparency trends in the workplace

Speaker

Garry Straker

Vice President Compensation Consulting, Salary.com

Garry has more than 25 years of experience providing total rewards consulting services to a diverse list of clients from a variety of industries, including technology, logistics, retail, higher education, non-profit, healthcare, public sector, and others. Garry’s focus is helping organizations achieve strategic goals by leveraging technology, data, and labor market insights to design sustainable, market-aligned total compensation plans.

His expertise includes developing rewards programs that are appropriately aligned with workplace culture, and business priorities. Services he provides include broad based compensation and executive compensation (non-profit), development of compensation philosophies, pay equity analyses and remediation to support Diversity & Inclusion, market benchmarking, pay structure design, job evaluation and classification, review of pay processes and policies, compliance, creation of merit and bonus pay programs, and effective communication of compensation programs.

He holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from the University of Connecticut, is an active member of World at Work and a board member of the Colonial Total Rewards Association.  He is also a certified employee benefits specialist with fellowship status. He has been a presenter on human resources, compensation and benefits topics at national and regional conferences, including the World at Work Pay Equity Symposium, SHRM,  and various industry associations.