About Team/Role
WEX’s Compensation Team is seeking a self-driven and motivated Compensation Specialist to join their team in Portland, ME, Boston, MA, New York City, NY, Washington D.C., Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, Bay Area, CA, or Seattle, WA! The Compensation Specialist will support the execution, and management of our compensation programs. This role requires a data-driven, analytical mindset with a strong foundation in data handling, data modeling, trend analysis and business partnership. Technical expertise in compensation modeling, analytics and dashboards.
This role will manage the administration of base salary compensation, job evaluations, market pricing, and salary structure. This role involves evaluating internal and external compensation data, ensuring pay equity, efficiently administering compensation practices, and contributing to the design of competitive and equitable compensation structures. In this role you will also support the administration of year-end compensation.
How you’ll make an impact
Compensation
Ideal candidate is comfortable administering a variety of compensation programs and processes, and has ability to prioritize multiple competing priorities.
Support compensation programs through timely administration and extreme accuracy with data handling.
Advises HR Business Partners and management on salary administration, job code use, wage-hour issues, state and federal pay regulations, FLSA as well as compensation guidelines and processes.
Develops and presents summary reports of job analysis and compensation analysis information.
Partner with Finance and HRBPs to align compensation processes with programs and projects.
Benchmarks jobs against survey data and other market intelligence to determine competitive compensation ranges for each position.
Harmonization Projects
Support job architecture, job family structures and job profiles across the businesses.
Key support administration of the annual merit cycles from planning to completion.
Work on process evolution and improvement with HR partners and HR Technology
Administer job families, leveling, and salary ranges.
Administer career tracks for individual contributors and management.
Design and maintain dashboards and reporting solutions using business intelligence tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau, or similar) to track program effectiveness and support decision-making
Compliance
Ensure compliance with pay regulations and support evolving pay transparency initiatives.
Experience you’ll bring
Undergraduate degree in business, economics, or a related field.
3+ years of experience in compensation.
Strong fluency in data analysis tools, including proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets
Experience with compensation survey providers (e.g., Radford, Mercer, WTW) and job leveling methodologies and frameworks
Strong communication skills, with the ability to partner with HR, Legal, Finance and the business at all levels
Experience in Job harmonization and career pathing
Strong Project Management skillset.
Experience presenting compensation training sessions.
Top Skills
What We Do
We simplify complex payment systems for fleets, corporate payments, and healthcare—unlocking insights, opportunities, and efficiencies to give you greater control of your business.
Powered by the belief that complex payment systems can be made simple, WEX (NYSE: WEX) is a leading financial technology service provider across a wide spectrum of sectors, including fleet, travel and healthcare. WEX operates in more than 10 countries and in more than 20 currencies through approximately 4,900 associates around the world. WEX fleet cards offer approximately 14 million vehicles exceptional payment security and control; our travel and corporate solutions business processes over $35 billion of purchase volume annually; and the WEX Health financial technology platform helps 343,000 employers and more than 28 million consumers better manage healthcare expenses.
