Conducting a Compensation Analysis

This one and one-half day program offers guidance on how to conduct a self-analysis for potential compensation discrimination under Title VII and the Equal Pay Act. The program also addresses the compensation analyses required under OFCCP’s new regulations and covers strategies for managing an OFCCP audit of your compensation practices.

The course will focus on what the EEO or compensation practitioner needs to know and be able to do to conduct the newly required compensation self-analyses, to present compensation analyses to the OFCCP, and to ensure that the company’s compensation practices are legally defensible. The course is appropriate for both EEO and compensation professionals. EEO professionals will benefit by learning the strategies and techniques currently used by OFCCP to evaluate compensation practices during audits. In addition, guidance on identifying statistical pay patterns that may give rise to inferences of race or sex discrimination will be useful as part of an ongoing EEO monitoring program. Compensation professionals will learn how to supplement their traditional evaluation of pay practices with an assessment of legal vulnerabilities to discrimination suits based on race or gender. Compensation professionals also will learn how best to coordinate their expertise with that of the company’s EEO professionals to manage an OFCCP audit of compensation.

The course begins with a brief overview of the legal and statistical principles involved in compensation analysis followed by the presentation of a sample pay analysis. Against this background there is a more in-depth review of the questions that need to be addressed in evaluating your company’s compensation systems. We will conduct a step-by-step review of a statistical methodology designed to pinpoint workforce units with potentially problematic statistical pay patterns. In addition, non-statistical “cohort analyses” are discussed as a way of determining whether any problematic statistical pay patterns that have been identified can be justified. The trainers’ use of EEAC’s Comp Auditor® II software in presenting this information avoids the need for a thorough understanding of statistical methodologies. Managing OFCCP’s review of your compensation system and strategies for conciliating alleged pay violations found by OFCCP also are addressed. The program concludes with a demonstration of EEAC’s Comp Auditor® II software.

Please note that for those who are interested, and for a modest additional charge, at the conclusion of the seminar we will be offering a special three-hour tutorial offering hands-on instruction in conducting an actual compensation analysis using EEAC's CompAuditor II software, with either EEAC-provided or company-provided data.  Attendees who choose to participate in the tutorial will need to bring their laptop computer, which you will use to go through the step-by-step process of conducting a typical compensation analysis.

All EEAC training seminars are held at the EEAC Training Center, which is located in downtown Washington, DC at 1501 M Street, N.W., Suite 400, just three blocks from the McPherson Square/White House Metro stop. Attendees are responsible for making their own hotel arrangements. If you need suggestions for hotels in the area, please check our website at http://www.eeac.org/docs/Hotel_Information.pdf or contact EEAC at 202-629-5655.

The registration fee includes continental breakfast on both days and lunch on day one.  All EEAC seminars qualify for recertification credit from the Human Resource Certification Institute.

Because EEAC's seminars are designed to encourage candid questions and comments among participants, the use of any type of recording device is not permitted.  If because of a disability you will need auxiliary aids or services to participate in the seminar, please contact us prior to the session.

Seminar Materials:
The seminar materials include a notebook of the visuals used to present the course as well as copies of the training exercises and pertinent memoranda and guidance materials.

Seminar Fees:
Member: $825 (30-Day Early Bird Fee: $775)
Non-Member: $1295 (30-Day Early Bird Fee: $1245)

Optional three-hour Comp Analysis Tutorial: $300

Due to limited space, we will be unable to admit walk-ins to the seminar.

Please click here for the complete Compensation Analysis seminar agenda.