Daniel "DanFromHR" Space

Executive HRBP and Consultant - FAANG+

Advanced Compensation Modeling: Build Pay Structures That Scale With Confidence

Most HR professionals inherit compensation structures they never built and cannot fully explain. When a leader asks why a role sits in a certain band, why a sales rep's commission accelerates at 100% of quota, or how a new hire's equity stacks up against someone who joined two years ago, the honest answer is often a shrug. That gap is where credibility quietly leaks away.

This workshop closes it. You will learn to model compensation the way finance and executive teams actually think about it: as a system of bands, ratios, and trade-offs you can defend with numbers. We move past theory and into real modeling, from base and variable pay through equity and total rewards, so you walk out able to build, stress-test, and explain a comp structure to anyone in the room.

If you have ever wanted to be the HRBP who runs the comp conversation instead of nodding along in it, this is where that starts.

What you’ll learn

How to build, benchmark, and defend complete compensation structures: base, variable, and equity, using the models leaders trust.

Learn to set band width, midpoints, and overlap so every role has a range you can explain and stand behind in any leadership review.

Design OTE, quotas, accelerators, and caps that motivate the right behavior and pencil out for the business, not just the rep.

Understand grant sizing, refresh, and 409A so you can speak to equity and total comp with the same fluency as your finance team.

Workshop agenda

Skill Gap Assessments and Business Needs
Connecting skill needs to business priorities and performance
Designing Effective Compensation Strategies
Understand how to design effective mixed model compensation