Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
Career Cluster
Business, Marketing, and Finance
Focuses on making businesses more efficient and productive. In this field, you'll plan, organize, direct, and assess businesses.
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Expected pay range
Expected pay range
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About compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists
What they do
Conduct programs of compensation and benefits and job analysis for employer. May specialize in specific areas, such as position classification and pension programs.
Other titles
Benefits Administrator, Benefits Analyst, Benefits Specialist, Compensation Analyst, Compensation Consultant, Compensation Coordinator, Compensation Specialist, Personnel Specialist, Position Classification Specialist
Skills they need
- Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Mathematics - Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Systems Evaluation - Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
Licenses and Certifications they may hold
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Certifications
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- American Management Association (external link opens new tab)
- College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (external link opens new tab)
- Employee Benefit Research Institute (external link opens new tab)
- International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (external link opens new tab)
- International Public Management Association for Human Resources (external link opens new tab)
- International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists (external link opens new tab)
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists (external link opens new tab)
- Society for Human Resource Management (external link opens new tab)
- WorldatWork (external link opens new tab)