One of the most important predictors of employee engagement and retention is fair compensation and pay transparency. As an HR professional, it’s your job to be familiar with the benefits of pay transparency, the fundamentals of HR compensation, and the skill of market research so that your organization will run in a way that’s fair and engaging for all involved.
Suppose you’re looking to learn more about these areas. In that case, you’ll benefit from HREN’s new course “Compensation Fundamentals and Pay Transparency: Driving Fairness and Engagement” with speakers Amy Gomez SPHR, SHRM-SCP, and Arlicia Chrestotholos.
Here’s why the course will be beneficial for you and your organization, and here are the skills you’ll walk away with.
What You’ll Learn
As an HR manager, compensation is essential to your relationships with employees. Your compensation program should be data-driven, fair, and thorough to help your employees feel trusted and valued. Learning about compensation data and what makes up compensation will give you the skills to lead your organization.
In ”Compensation Fundamentals and Pay Transparency: Driving Fairness and Engagement,” you’ll also become familiar with and learn about these topics and skills:
- What makes up compensation and the fundamentals of it
- The six steps to use to create your own compensation program
- How to perform market pay research
- What the pay transparency movement is about (including its benefits and challenges)
- Salary grade
- How to perform job evaluations
- The market-based benchmarking method
- How to apply compensation data to get results
- How to make decisions grounded in data
These skills will give you the tools you need to move forward.
Why Do Fair Pay and Pay Transparency Matter?

Fair pay, of course, helps employees feel valued, engaged, and motivated. It can attract employees to your organization and help them want to continue their careers there.
Pay transparency has many of the same benefits. It can also help employees feel trusted and can reduce pay discrimination within an organization. It can also improve the hiring process by making communication clearer with potential employees from the beginning. However, pay transparency can also introduce concerns about privacy, potential for discontented employees, increased competition, and other challenges. HR managers will need to lead their organizations confidently and carefully through the cultural shift if they decide to go that route. The course will cover other challenges and benefits of pay transparency.
About the Speakers
This course will feature two qualified speakers with over 40 combined years of experience in the HR field: Amy Gomez SPHR, SHRM-SCP, and Arlicia Chrestotholos.
Amy Gomez is an HR consultant and has Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) certifications. She teaches HR test preparation courses and other courses through HR Education Network.
Arlicia Chrestotholos has experience in compensation administration and total rewards strategy. She’s led countless organizations to success with her skills in compensation and benefits strategies.
Register Today for “Compensation Fundamentals and Pay Transparency: Driving Fairness & Engagement”

Ready to deepen your understanding of the fundamentals of compensation?
Join Amy Gomez and Arlicia Chrestotholos in “Compensation Fundamentals and Pay Transparency: Driving Fairness & Engagement” to become confident in your skills and knowledge in the area of compensation. The course, which has a 4.8-star review, is popular because of its ability to get you and your organization on a path where you are comfortable with the data of compensation and ready to approach it with transparency and in a manner that helps your employees feel engaged and valued.