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compensation-and-leveling is agent-read markdown (skill) from cbrock84/headcount: Builds and maintains the leveling framework and pay structure — level definitions, salary bands, benchmarking, pay equity, and how raises and promotions are decided. Use this to design or revise leveling, set or adjust salary bands, benchmark against market, handle a compensation request or counteroffer, run a review cycle, or diagnose pay compression and equity issues..

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# Compensation and leveling

> Compensation touches employment law, pay transparency requirements, and equal pay obligations that
> vary by jurisdiction. Structural work here is fine; specific decisions about individuals should be
> reviewed by qualified counsel or an HR professional.

## Leveling first

Pay structure without a leveling framework produces negotiated salaries, and negotiated salaries
produce inequity that correlates with who negotiates hardest.

Define each level by **scope and impact**, not tenure or task list:

- What ambiguity can they handle — a defined task, a defined problem, an undefined problem, a
  problem nobody has identified?
- What is the blast radius of their decisions — their work, their team, the function, the company?
- What do they do for others: execute, contribute, guide, or set direction?

Levels must be distinguishable in a sentence. If two adjacent levels cannot be told apart by
someone who does not know the people in them, they are one level.

## Bands

For each level, benchmark against a market defined by the roles you actually compete with for
candidates — not the whole industry, and not aspirational peers.
…

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cbrock84/headcount · 1,664 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-17 · branch main

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