Compensation Analyst

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Location Atlanta, Georgia
Full/Part Time Full-Time
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Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Department Information

Georgia Tech Human Resources (GTHR) serves the Institute and its more than 14,000 employees through strategic counsel, employee engagement, and essential human capital management operations. As the people's unit, GTHR is engaged throughout the employee's lifetime at Georgia Tech. Our team works with sensitive employee information and assists in the management of complex employee issues. Professionalism and confidence are of the utmost importance within our team. What we do :

• Process payroll and maintain employment data for approximately 14,000 active faculty, staff, and students. Strive to attract, recruit, and retain the best talent in the marketplace.
• Provide immigration, labor, and tax support required for foreign national faculty and staff to work at Georgia Tech and support employees performing services overseas.
• Leverage a market-driven compensation structure to attract and retain employees.
• Advise employees and managers regarding work performance and conflict management.

Department: Human Resources/Compensation and Classification

• Define and maintain job structures by evaluating roles to ensure accurate job titles, levels, and classifications aligned with organizational needs, governance requirements, and market context.
• Establish and manage market-driven salary structures that support talent attraction and retention while maintaining internal consistency and alignment with Georgia Tech and University System of Georgia requirements.
• Support talent attraction and retention by applying competitive, sustainable, and data-informed compensation practices.
• Monitor parity and compression to identify pay concerns and inform data-driven recommendations.
• Advise leaders, managers, and employees on job classification and compensation practices.

Job Summary

The Advanced Classification and Compensation Analyst provides professional-level expertise and analytical support for job classification and compensation decisions. This role conducts job analysis and evaluation, supports job documentation and career-level placement, and performs market pricing and survey-based analysis to inform pay positioning. The Advanced Analyst supports compensation program administration and the annual salary planning cycle by preparing tools and templates, maintaining data integrity in Institute systems, and producing rigorous analytics and reporting. Working under general direction and established practices, the Advanced Analyst partners with Human Resources Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and unit stakeholders to deliver timely, well-documented recommendations and customer support. This position contributes to training and program rollouts and may lead discrete workstreams (for example, survey submissions, market pricing projects, or targeted analytics) while not having formal people management responsibilities or Institute-wide program ownership.

Responsibilities

Job Duty 1 Provide classification and compensation consulting support for assigned client groups by responding to inquiries, gathering requirements, and preparing recommendations consistent with established guidelines and practices. Job Duty 2 Conduct job analyses and support job evaluation and leveling by collecting and synthesizing information from managers and employees; recommend appropriate classification outcomes supported by documentation. Job Duty 3 Review, draft, and update job descriptions to ensure accurate representation of duties, scope, and required qualifications; partner with stakeholders to validate job content and organizational context. Job Duty 4 Conduct compensation surveys and market pricing activities, including job matching, survey submission preparation, survey interpretation, and development of market pricing recommendations supported by clear rationale. Job Duty 5 Build, develop, and maintain salary survey resources and market pricing files (for example, job matching libraries, survey calendars, and submission documentation) to strengthen consistency and audit readiness. Job Duty 6 Perform rigorous analytics on pay data (for example, pay progression trends, internal alignment diagnostics,compa-ratio reporting, and targeted assessments) and translate findings into clear, decision-support outputs. Job Duty 7 Support salary planning tools and the annual compensation cycle by developing and distributing planning templates, validating calculations, and providing training and ongoing assistance to Human Resources partners and managers. Job Duty 8 Review and process pay actions (for example, new hires, promotions, transfers, retention actions, and other pay changes) by applying established practices and documenting recommendations; escalate exceptions as appropriate. Job Duty 9 Maintain and validate compensation and classification data in Institute systems and planning tools; support testing/validation of updates; troubleshoot workflow issues; and improve standard work and documentation. Job Duty 10 Other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements : Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. Required Experience:

• Typically 4+ years of relevant professional experience in compensation and/or classification work with progressively increasing responsibility.
• Experience supporting compensation surveys, market pricing, and pay analysis in a complex organization.
• Experience developing analytics, dashboards, or reporting that supports leader or manager decision-making.
• Experience supporting salary planning tools, templates, and end-to-end annual compensation cycle activities.
• Experience developing and delivering training materials or facilitating sessions for managers or Human Resources partners.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Educational Requirements: Master's degree in a related discipline or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. Additional Preferred Requirements: Professional certification: Certified Compensation Professional, Professional in Human Resources, SHRM Certified Professional, or similar.
Proposed Salary

Salary: Up to $85,000/yr.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

Knowledge

• Knowledge of compensation principles, pay positioning concepts, and salary administration practices.
• Knowledge of job analysis, job documentation practices, and classification standards and guidelines.
• Knowledge of compensation surveys, market pricing, job matching, and survey interpretation.
• Knowledge of applicable policies, procedures, and regulations related to classification and compensation (including wage and hour considerations).

Skills

• Skill in quantitative analysis, spreadsheet modeling, and producing accurate, well-documented outputs.
• Skill in building and maintaining survey and market pricing materials and translating data into recommendations.
• Skill in using systems and tools to maintain data integrity and support salary planning workflows.
• Skill in developing and delivering training, job aids, and clear guidance for stakeholders.

Abilities

• Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and escalate risks or exceptions appropriately.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and provide responsive customer support.
• Ability to exercise judgment within established guidelines and apply consistent documentation practices.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with peers and cross-functional partners to support program implementation.

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

Other Information

This is not a supervisory position.
This position does not have any financial responsibilities.
This role is considered a position of trust.
This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).
This position does not require security clearance. Location: Atlanta, GA
Background Check

The candidate of choice will be required to pass a pre-employment background screening.