Director of Compensation
M5
COD.GEN.M5
Director of Compensation
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Compensation · General

The full level-by-level ladder — every rung side by side, current level (M5) highlighted.

Pay by level

Same pricing source as the profile's ticker header — family multiplier + inherited focus differential over the function×level base.

National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so dollar levels are not function-adjusted (level-over-level % is unaffected).

M1
$85,619
M2
$110,455
M3
$120,351
M4
$167,689
M5
$188,371
M6
$241,631

Pay rises with level — the structure that explains the most pay variance.

Mastery at this level

Starting outFoundationalProficientExpert

M5Proficient · good — adapts to context, gets consistent results

Architecting coherent reward systems

  • Designs a total-rewards structure and job architecture that hold together across families and levels
  • Traces how a change to one pay component ripples through equity, motivation, budget, and other HR systems
  • Convenes finance, HRBPs, and leaders to invent reward options against objective criteria
  • Diagnoses pay-equity and disclosure exposure and builds compliant, transparent administration

What’s next — Expertat M5 → M6

Moving from building a coherent system to setting strategy, standards, and optionality for the whole function under irreducible uncertainty

What to learn

  • How the reward system must cohere with business strategy and the broader HR practice bundle
  • Optionality and asymmetric-payoff thinking as a hedge against VUCA labor and budget forecasts

What to practice

  • Framing open-ended, multi-constraint reward problems no one else can scope
  • Defining the evidence and decision standards the function operates by
  • Negotiating durable, executable cross-team reward agreements that meet each stakeholder's legitimate interests

From Compensation Analyst — the closest guide to this family (semantic match; stage bands from the canonical level binding).

No JFM factory canon (responsibilities × level, level guidelines × level, skills) for this profile yet.