Bryant University
PAE-11: Sustainable Compensation

Bryant University employs a Market Based Compensation strategy. The University is a complex organization with a wide variety of jobs in many disciplines. The University's intention is to benchmark jobs to the market that best reflects our recruiting practices. For example, the market for support positions and some administrative positions is local Providence-area employers, regardless of industry. The market for most higher education-specific jobs would be institutions with similar geographic, enrollment size, and/or operating budgets. The Human Resources department participates in a number of carefully selected salary and benefits surveys to ensure that the University has access to current and quality data in order to benchmark the Universities pay and benefits to peer organizations. These surveys are conducted on an annual basis by reputable survey firms who use proven methods for collecting, analyzing, and presenting data. Human Resources continually reassess data sources to ensure that they continue to meet the University’s needs and that the quality/credibility remains high. Wages and benefits (total compensation) for service and trades employees, safety officers and faculty are agreed to through collective bargaining with the Unions that represent them. The University reviews and analyses market data in preparation for contract negations. (source: http://www.livingwage.geog.psu.edu/) In a 2013 peer group survey of benefits, Bryant's results were the same or better than 14 of the peer institutions surveyed in 11 out of 12 categories.