Compensation & Benefits Managers
Also called: Benefits Manager, Compensation Director, Compensation Manager,
What they do:
Plan, direct, or coordinate compensation and benefits activities of an organization.On the job, you would:
- Design, evaluate and modify benefits policies to ensure that programs are current, competitive, and in compliance with legal requirements.
- Analyze compensation policies, government regulations, and prevailing wage rates to develop competitive compensation plan.
- Administer, direct, and review employee benefit programs, including the integration of benefit programs following mergers and acquisitions.
Business
Arts and Humanities
Math and Science
Safety and Government
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Basic Skills
People and Technology Systems
Problem Solving
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Verbal
Ideas and Logic
Math
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People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need:
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You might use software like this on the job: Human resources software
Presentation software
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
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What they do:
Plan, direct, or coordinate compensation and benefits activities of an organization.On the job, you would:
- Design, evaluate and modify benefits policies to ensure that programs are current, competitive, and in compliance with legal requirements.
- Analyze compensation policies, government regulations, and prevailing wage rates to develop competitive compensation plan.
- Administer, direct, and review employee benefit programs, including the integration of benefit programs following mergers and acquisitions.
KNOWLEDGE
Business
- human resources (HR)
- management
Arts and Humanities
- English language
Math and Science
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Safety and Government
- law and government
SKILLS
Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
ABILITIES
Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- communicate by writing
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems
Math
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
PERSONALITY
People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Analytical Thinking
- Dependability
- Initiative
- Self Control
TECHNOLOGY
You might use software like this on the job:
Human resources software
- ADP Workforce Now
- Human resource management software HRMS
Presentation software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Microsoft Dynamics GP
- Oracle Hyperion
EDUCATION

- bachelor's degree
- master's degree
JOB OUTLOOK

New job opportunities are likely in the future.

$122,270

$69,870
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