Client: Global Retail Brand
Overview: W&G was engaged to conduct a comprehensive review of the company’s store incentive (bonus) plans for various retail roles. The objective was to align performance incentives with business objectives, and ensure market competitiveness.
Outcome:
- Refined bonus structures for leadership store roles
- Clear and actionable updates to compensation tools, including incentive calculators, to facilitate transparency and engagement
Client: Financial Services
Mandate: W&G was engaged to support the organization in refining its executive compensation strategy, aligning it with corporate values, market insights, and governance expectations. We aimed to enhance the total rewards philosophy, executive pay structure, and long-term incentive plan (LTIP) while ensuring transparency and board alignment.
Outcome:
- An updated Total Rewards Philosophy
- Refined comparator groups and benchmarking approach
- A redesigned Long-term Incentive Plan
- Executive pay structure enhancements
- Stakeholder engagement and board approval
Client: Technology
Mandate: W&G was engaged to develop a comprehensive compensation strategy to support the company’s rapid growth. The engagement focused on market benchmarking, job level structuring, pay range design and pay transparency, ensuring the organization remained competitive and compliant with evolving industry standards.
Outcome:
- A structured job level framework
- Market-competitive base pay bands
- Compensation philosophy refinement
- Board-ready insights
- Future-focused career laddering
- Incentive plan design options
Client: Government Finance Authority
Overview: W&G assessed the current compensation and benefits offerings, developed a total rewards philosophy, conducted a detailed market analysis to inform strategic total rewards recommendations for both senior executives and staff.
Outcome:
- Securing board approval for executive compensation recommendations
- Customized point-factor job evaluation framework
- Competitive staff pay ranges
- Compensation guidelines and training
Client: Transportation & Infrastructure
Mandate: W&G supported our client in creating a consistent, sustainable, market-driven compensation framework. It was critical that the solution and deliverables were relevant to the organization and in alignment with the mandated Public Sector Employers’ Council Secretariat (PSEC) requirements.
Outcome:
- Securing required approvals for the revised job architecture and compensation framework
- Updated job evaluation framework
- Revised exempt and non-exempt (union) staff pay ranges
- Compensation guidelines
Client: Government Administration
Mandate: W&G was engaged to conduct an assessment of the current organizational structure, provide recommendations for restructuring, and identify resource gaps.
Outcome:
- A clear understanding of the current organizational structure.
- Strategic insights and viable restructuring options to enhance efficiency and alignment with organizational goals.
- Identified critical resource gaps
- Final organizational design model
Client: University
Mandate: W&G supports in conducting objective job evaluation reviews for new and existing roles, writing rationales for evaluation outcomes and communicating with leaders, employees and union representatives.
Outcome:
- Reduced backlog and improved response times for job evaluation requests
- Improved quality and consistency of job evaluation outcomes
- Strengthened collaboration and understanding of job evaluation results
Client: Transportation & Infrastructure
Mandate: W&G supported the Governance Committee in conducting an independent market review of the Chief Executive Officer total compensation. The goal was to assess competitiveness, validate market positioning, and provide clear, defensible recommendations aligned with governance expectations and organizational context.
Outcome:
- Summarized CEO total compensation with observations on competitiveness and retention
- Recommended a competitive CEO compensation structure
- Delivered market assessment of salary and core benefits
- Prepared a Committee ready report with methodology, findings, and recommendations
