I work for WD-40 Company as head of human resources. We have employees in 15 countries. Every year we do a global compensation analysis to determine what our next fiscal year’s compensation budget is going to be. We use the Hay methodology, which has been around since the late 1940s, and represents one of the more robust analytical methods available, particularly for international companies. In each country where we employ people, the survey information is comprised typically of hundreds of reporting companies, with thousands of incumbents in each salary level. The data was surprising.
