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- Glossary· Disclosed pay bandsTerm
Pay transparency
Disclosed pay bands
- Glossary· Min / mid / max for a levelTerm
Compensation band
The salary range for a level (and location, if tiered). Bands enable consistent offers and…
- Glossary· Salary range for a levelTerm
Comp band
…(and location if tiered). Same idea as compensation band; the working shorthand inside comp teams.
- Glossary· Pay vs. band midpointTerm
Compa-ratio
…arket; >1.1 = above. The core metric in compensation reviews.
- Glossary· Band penetration zonesTerm
Comp ratio bands
The three zones of a pay band — entry (0.8–0.9), mid (0.9–1.1), top (1.1–1.2) — used to guide raise and…
- Glossary· Min/mid/max for a levelTerm
Pay band
…enable consistent offers, reviews, and pay-equity audits.
- Glossary· How you decide payTerm
Compensation philosophy
How you decide pay
- Glossary· Holistic comp + benefits + experienceTerm
Total Rewards
Holistic comp + benefits + experience
- Glossary· Performance-tied cashTerm
Variable pay
…e, gainsharing. Distinguished from base pay (fixed) and equity (deferred ownership).
- Glossary· Base + bonus + equity + benefitsTerm
Total comp
The full annual value of compensation including base salary, target bonus, equity value (typically annualised…
- Glossary· Same role, same payTerm
Pay equity audit
Same role, same pay
- Glossary· Post-employment competition restrictionTerm
Non-compete
Post-employment competition restriction
- Glossary· Equal pay for equal workTerm
Pay equity
Equal pay for equal work
- Glossary· Mandatory employer-worker pay reviewTerm
Joint pay assessment
Mandatory employer-worker pay review
- Glossary· Tax on wagesTerm
Payroll tax
…, unemployment insurance. Employer-side payroll taxes typically add 7–15% to wage cost.
- Glossary· Gap after controlsTerm
Unexplained pay gap
The pay difference between groups (e.g., gender, race) that remains after controlling f…
- Glossary· On-Target EarningsTerm
OTE
Total annual compensation when an employee (usually in sales) hits 100% of quota. Combines base salary an…
- Glossary· Pay on exitTerm
Severance
Pay on exit
- Glossary· EU pay-equity scopeTerm
Work of equal value
EU pay-equity scope
- Glossary· Beyond cashTerm
Total rewards
Beyond cash
- Glossary· ICT visaTerm
Intra-company transfer
ICT visa
- Glossary· Total wage expense by geographyTerm
Cost of labor
Geographic comparison of fully-loaded compensation for similar roles. The input to geo-pay decisions and remote-work strategy.
- Glossary· Roles, levels, families, tracksTerm
Job architecture
…ucture that organises every role in the company into families (e.g., Engineering, Product), tracks (IC vs Manager), and leve…
- Glossary· Secondary trauma exhaustionTerm
Compassion fatigue
Secondary trauma exhaustion
- Glossary· US private-company valuationTerm
409A
US private-company valuation
- Glossary· UK off-payroll working rulesTerm
IR35
UK off-payroll working rules
- Glossary· Annual pay-and-promotion reviewTerm
Merit cycle
Annual pay-and-promotion review
- Glossary· One-time payment to joinTerm
Signing bonus
One-time payment to join
- Glossary· Color-coded comparison viewTerm
Heatmap
Color-coded comparison view
- Glossary· People leaving the companyTerm
Attrition
People leaving the company
- Glossary· Formal complaint processTerm
Grievance procedure
Formal complaint process
- Glossary· 32-hour week with same payTerm
Four-day week
32-hour week with same pay
- Glossary· Rating × position-in-band gridTerm
Merit matrix
…e grid that maps performance rating and compa-ratio to recommended raise percentage. Drives consistency and budget disciplin…
- Glossary· Compounding cultural shortcutsTerm
Culture debt
Compounding cultural shortcuts
- Glossary· Wage + everythingTerm
Fully loaded cost
…ation. Usually 1.25–1.4× base in mature companies, higher for tech roles.
- Glossary· Role progression by levelTerm
Career ladder
…xplicit expectations per level. Anchors compensation, promotion, and growth conversations.
- Glossary· Promoting by title without rigorTerm
Title inflation
…senior titles without matching scope or compensation. Cheap short-term retention move; expensive long-term levelling debt.
- Glossary· Option exercise priceTerm
Strike price
…e the 409A FMV at grant date for US-tax compliance.
- Glossary· Performance-based deal paymentTerm
Earnout
Performance-based deal payment
- Glossary· Pay-on-placement searchTerm
Contingent search
Pay-on-placement search
- Glossary· Compare groups over timeTerm
Cohort analysis
Compare groups over time
- Glossary· Recovery of previously paid compTerm
Clawback
Recovery of previously paid comp
- Glossary· External or internal comparison pointTerm
Benchmark
External or internal comparison point
- Glossary· Human Resource Information SystemTerm
HRIS
…record for people data — names, roles, comp, lifecycle events. Examples: Workday, BambooHR, Rippling. The HRIS is the ‘sour…
- Glossary· Restricted Stock UnitsTerm
RSUs
…e met. Common at later-stage and public companies.
- Glossary· Diversity, Equity, InclusionTerm
DEI
…es that broaden who can succeed in your company. Goal: a workforce that mirrors the talent pool, with equitable processes.
- Glossary· Doing the job, no moreTerm
Quiet quitting
…ew public conversation about effort and pay.
- Glossary· Burnout without exitTerm
Quiet cracking
…t without people leaving — riskier to a company than visible churn.
- Glossary· Career moves insideTerm
Internal mobility
…s across teams or roles within the same company. Strong internal mobility is one of the best retention levers.
- Glossary· Human Capital ManagementTerm
HCM
…t, performance, learning, and sometimes payroll modules. Examples: Workday HCM, Oracle HCM, SAP SuccessFactors. In practice…
- Glossary· Removes dissatisfaction, doesn't motivateTerm
Hygiene factor
From Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory: pay, conditions, policies. Their absence demotivates; their presence does not motiv…
- Glossary· 5 conflict stylesTerm
Thomas-Kilmann modes
Competing, Collaborating, Compromising, Avoiding, Accommodating. Diagnostic for matc…
- Glossary· Restricted Stock UnitTerm
RSU
…ty instrument at later-stage and public companies.
- Glossary· Vest in one chunk at month 12Term
Cliff vesting
…2, then 25% vests at once. Protects the company if a hire (or co-founder) leaves early.
- Glossary· Founder share buyback rightTerm
Reverse vesting
…ders are issued shares day one, but the company retains the right to repurchase unvested shares at original price if the fou…
- Glossary· US tax election within 30 daysTerm
83(b) election
…or employee receiving restricted stock pay ordinary income tax on the (usually tiny) value at grant rather than at vest. M…
- Glossary· Cash to stay through integrationTerm
Retention bonus
A bonus, typically 25–100% of base salary, paid at 12 and 24 months post-acquisition to bridge integration risk and retai…
- Glossary· Did the hire work outTerm
Quality of hire
Composite metric blending first-year performance rating, 1-year retention, and manag…
- Glossary· HR data warehouseTerm
People mart
…nalytics. Sits downstream of HRIS, ATS, payroll, and performance systems.
- Glossary· Severance in exchange for releaseTerm
Release agreement
…change for releasing claims against the company. Subject to specific legal disclosures (e.g., US ADEA/OWBPA for older worker…
- Glossary· Returning former employeeTerm
Boomerang hire
An ex-employee rehired into the company. Strong alumni networks make this a meaningful talent source; tracked separa…
- Glossary· All set on day oneTerm
Day-1 readiness
…k ready. Sounds basic; fails in 30%+ of companies surveyed.
- Glossary· Hidden cross-border tax riskTerm
Permanent Establishment
…e a taxable corporate presence for your company there — even without a local entity. Triggers vary by country but commonly i…
- Glossary· Employee Stock Option PlanTerm
ESOP
…taxed at exercise and at sale under the Companies Act.
- Glossary· Ex-employee communityTerm
Alumni network
…rganised community of former employees. Pays back as a rehire pipeline (boomerangs), referral source, and client/partner ch…
- Glossary· Employee ExperienceTerm
EX
…ee perceives across their time with the company — physical, digital, cultural, and relational touchpoints. Treated with prod…
- Glossary· Offer-accept to start-dateTerm
Pre-boarding window
…eeks between acceptance and start. Most companies waste it; the best use it for paperwork, equipment, welcome content, and r…
- Glossary· Offers accepted ÷ extendedTerm
Offer acceptance rate
…dates accept. Below 80% usually means a comp, level, or candidate-experience problem upstream. Slice by source, level, and r…
- Glossary· Did this hire work out?Term
Quality of hire
A composite measure combining first-year performance ratings, 90-day retention, and hi…
- Glossary· Wish-they'd-stayed exitsTerm
Regretted attrition
Voluntary departures the company would have preferred to retain, usually flagged by the manager. The denomina…
- Glossary· Have vs needTerm
Capability gap analysis
The structured comparison of current skills inventory against the capability model required by stra…
- Glossary· Pipeline Passage 1Term
First-time manager
…the most leadership pipeline investment pays back.
- Glossary· Pipeline Passage 2Term
Manager of managers
…ng-through-managers. Where most growing companies fail to invest.
- Glossary· Top-up grants over timeTerm
Equity refresh
…vesting. The mechanism that keeps total comp competitive past year 4.
- Glossary· Moments That MatterTerm
MTM
…rental leave, exit. Where EX investment compounds.
- Glossary· Levels × expectations matrixTerm
Career framework
A documented matrix of competencies and expectations per level, per track. Anchors promotion, performance,…
- Glossary· IC and manager paths of equal weightTerm
Dual track
…s (Staff, Principal, Distinguished) are compensated and respected on par with management roles. Standard in modern tech orgs…
- Glossary· Numbers behind people decisionsTerm
Workforce analytics
…riptive analytics about the workforce — composition, movement, cost, attrition. The first maturity stage before predictive p…
- Glossary· US work-authorization verification formTerm
I-9
…rm (USCIS Form I-9) every employer must complete to verify employment eligibility for every new hire within three business d…
- Glossary· US electronic employment-eligibility checkTerm
E-Verify
DHS-operated online system that compares I-9 data against federal records to confirm work authorisation. Mandatory f…
- Glossary· Employees on the board (DE)Term
Co-determination
…entation on supervisory boards of large companies. Shapes a fundamentally different stakeholder model from US shareholder-pr…
- Glossary· Restriction on recruiting from former employerTerm
Non-solicit
…ustomers. Far more enforceable than non-competes, even where the latter is restricted.
- Glossary· Binding employment terms summaryTerm
Offer letter
The written document detailing role, comp, start date, contingencies, and at-will status (in US). Legally binding once ac…
- Glossary· Capitalisation table — who owns whatTerm
Cap table
…vertible instrument issued by a private company. Managed in tools like Carta, Pulley, or Shareworks.
- Glossary· Tax-time election on restricted stockTerm
83(b) election
US IRS election to pay ordinary-income tax on restricted stock at grant (at low FMV) rather than at ve…
- Glossary· Time to exercise after leavingTerm
Exercise window
…laced by 10-year windows at progressive companies.
- Glossary· On-Target EarningsTerm
OTE
Sales-comp shorthand for base + target variable at 100% quota attainment. The number sales…
- Glossary· Intermediary for health/insurance benefitsTerm
Benefits broker
…benefits between employer and carriers. Compensated by carrier commissions; conflicts of interest worth scrutiny.
- Glossary· US workplace retirement planTerm
401(k)
…retirement-savings plan funded through payroll deductions, often with employer match. The dominant US private-sector retir…
- Glossary· Subordinate-reported manager qualityTerm
Manager effectiveness score
Composite score derived from team-survey items about a manager's clarity, support, f…
- Glossary· Multi-source feedbackTerm
360 review
…development; controversial when tied to comp. Susceptible to popularity-vs-effectiveness bias.
- Glossary· Pre-defined evaluation criteriaTerm
Interview rubric
A documented set of competencies, signals, and rating definitions used by every interviewer for a role.…
- Glossary· Multi-day work sampleTerm
Take-home assignment
A scoped problem completed away from the interview, typically over 2–8 hours of effort. Better signal…
- Glossary· Statistical lever of engagementTerm
Engagement driver
…in overall engagement. Drivers vary by company and segment; assume nothing.
- Glossary· Milestone recognition for years of serviceTerm
Tenure award
…stries; still meaningful at long-tenure companies and unionised workplaces.
- Glossary· Reputation as a place to workTerm
Employer brand
…es about what it's like to work at your company. Built by EX reality, communicated through Glassdoor, content, and word-of-m…
- Glossary· Employee Value PropositionTerm
EVP
…n exchange for joining and committing — comp, growth, mission, culture, autonomy. The DNA of employer brand and hiring posit…
- Glossary· Median (50th percentile)Term
P50
…alf below. Standard reference point for comp benchmarks and operational metrics. P75/P90 capture the tail.
- Glossary· Purchasing Power ParityTerm
PPP
A way to compare wages across countries by what they actually buy locally, rather than raw FX…
- Glossary· How performance is set, reviewed, rewardedTerm
Performance management
…ck-ins, feedback, ratings, calibration, comp links, and PIPs. Most teams treat it as paperwork; the leverage is in the conve…
- Glossary· Unwritten mutual expectationsTerm
Psychological contract
…reaches drive disengagement faster than pay cuts.
- Glossary· Probability of remaining over timeTerm
Survival curve
…each tenure month. The cleanest way to compare retention across hires, managers, or locations.
- Glossary· NYC Automated Employment Decision Tool lawTerm
AEDT
…oyers using automated hiring tools must complete an independent bias audit and notify candidates. First-of-its-kind US AI-hi…
- Glossary· Specialist team serving the businessTerm
Centre of excellence
A small expert team (comp, L&D, analytics) that builds capability and frameworks the line uses. Counterpa…
- Glossary· Quasi-experimental causal methodTerm
Difference-in-differences
Compares the change in outcome for a treated group vs an untreated group over the sa…
- Glossary· Environmental, Social, GovernanceTerm
ESG
…here people-ops shows up — DEI, safety, pay equity, human rights.
- Glossary· Part-time Chief People OfficerTerm
Fractional CPO
A senior people leader serving multiple companies part-time. Common at 30–150 headcount where full-time CPO isn't justified…
- Glossary· Part-time C-levelTerm
Fractional executive
…) embedded part-time across one or more companies. Different from advisor — they hold accountability and operate.
- Glossary· Drive from the work itselfTerm
Intrinsic motivation
…er and more durable than incentives for complex knowledge work.
- Glossary· Centralised HR operationsTerm
Shared services
…ries, benefits enrolment) for the whole company. The 'service' layer of the Ulrich model.
- Glossary· Probability of detecting a real effectTerm
Statistical power
…oduce false negatives — common in small-company people analytics.
- Glossary· Offers accepted ÷ offers extendedTerm
Offer-accept rate
…offers candidates accept. Below ~85% in competitive roles usually signals comp, brand, or process problems.
- Glossary· Advance-notice shift lawsTerm
Predictive scheduling
…o publish schedules 7–14 days ahead and pay penalties for late changes. Common in retail and food service.
- Glossary· Total Cost of OwnershipTerm
TCO
…, training, change costs. The number to compare in HRIS selection — not list price.
- Glossary· Per Employee Per MonthTerm
PEPM
…andard HR-tech pricing unit. Useful for comparing vendors, but TCO includes far more than PEPM.
- Glossary· Employer-backed work permitTerm
Sponsorship
…cluding ongoing reporting and (often) repayment of relocation if the employee leaves early.
- Glossary· Validated burnout instrumentTerm
Maslach Burnout Inventory
…personalisation, and reduced personal accomplishment. Use validated instruments — not bespoke pulse questions — for burnout…
- Glossary· Shared-moment energyTerm
Collective effervescence
Émile Durkheim's term for the heightened emotion groups feel during shared rituals. The mechanism behind why offsites, all-hands, and launches matter beyond their content.