We Build Compensation Strategies for Forward-Thinking Teams

Stay ahead of new pay transparency laws with data-driven compensation benchmarking and pay equity analysis built for Canadian businesses. H2R offers expert compensation reviews, market benchmarking, and pay equity services to ensure better talent acquisition & retention.

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Not Sure Where to Start? We Make Compensation Simple & Collaborative.

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Discovery & Goal-Setting

We begin by meeting with your leadership and HR team to fully understand your current compensation practices, business structure, and pain points. We clarify your short- and long-term goals—whether it’s addressing pay equity concerns, improving employee retention, ensuring provincial or federal compliance, or even building a scalable compensation framework. This stage sets the foundation for a tailored, strategic review.

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Data Collection, Market Research & Analysis

Next, we gather your internal compensation benchmark and review role descriptions, organizational structure, and current salary bands. We then compare your roles against up-to-date market data using trusted compensation databases. From there, we conduct an internal pay equity analysis and identify any pay disparities, gaps, or misalignments – providing you with clear, data-backed insights to make the best decisions possible.

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Compensation Strategy Setting & Process Building

Once we’ve identified the key issues and opportunities, we collaborate with you to build or refine your compensation strategy. This includes creating clear pay structures, developing job levels or bands, setting compensation philosophies, and ensuring alignment with your organizational values and budget. We also help you build sustainable internal processes for ongoing compensation management to stay compliant with Canadian pay transparency laws.

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Ongoing Compensation Benchmarking Support

We don’t just hand off a report and walk away. Our team remains available to provide continued guidance—whether you need support implementing recommendations, navigating legislation, training HR teams, or scheduling regular compensation audits. We’re here as your trusted partner in building and maintaining a fair and effective compensation strategy.

Why is Compensation Benchmarking Important?

Stronger Talent Attraction & Retention

Offering fair, competitive compensation signals that you value your people - helping you attract top talent and reduce costly turnover. A clear, data-informed pay strategy builds trust and keeps your team motivated, engaged, and loyal.

Legal Compliance & Risk Reduction

With evolving Canadian pay transparency and pay equity legislation, staying compliant is more important than ever. Our compensation reviews help you identify and correct potential risks before they become liabilities - protecting your organization from legal exposure and reputational harm.

Improved Team Trust & Retention

A workplace culture of trust and respect is a workplace culture that nurtures its teams, and retains its employees. Build a culture of pay transparency and fairness that strengthens employee engagement while staying within Canadian pay transparency guidelines.

Greater Strategic Planning

By crafting repeatable compensation strategies and pay equity philosophies, you can improve the efficiency of future planning while also ensuring your team fits within the bounds of your payroll budget - regardless of scale.

Total Compensation Strategy Services

Job Evaluation & Leveling

We help you define and categorize roles consistently across departments within your organization, supporting clear, fair, and scalable compensation frameworks for all employees.

Market Benchmarking

We analyze existing pay practices using current market data to identify salaries expectations amongst job seekers, as well as comparing existing salaries across roles, companies & regions.

Pay Equity Analysis

We help uncover and resolve unintentional pay gaps based on protected characteristics to remove the impact of possible unconscious bias. This helps you align with pay equity laws and HR best practices.

Internal Equity Assessments

We can help routinely evaluate compensation within your departments, while identifying and addressing discrepancies that may affect employee satisafaction, employee retention, or legal compliance.

Compensation Strategy Development

We work alongside you in building a compensation philosophy that reflects your values, budget and talent goals, but is also proactive and scalable.

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HR Consulting & Outsourcing team at H2R Business Solutions in Waterloo, Ontario

H2R Offers:

No Contracts

Clear Deliverables

Measurable Results

Ready to Get Ahead of Pay Transparency?

We help you stay proactive – not reactive – by using compensation benchmarking to build compensation systems that are competitive, compliant, and future-proof from evolving pay transparency laws.