Compensation Analyst

Compensation Analyst interview questions

Your high-quality candidate will be super experienced in payroll and may have an HR degree to boot. They’ll be awesome at handling sensitive info and managing salary spreadsheets, and will have a great eye for detail when it comes to spotting mistakes.

Top tips: 

• Look for experience: Look out for knowledge of compensation and benefits packages, and labor legislation, and test for system knowledge with tech assignments. 
• Grow together: Hire candidates you can grow with by making sure their personal career goals align with your company's mission.

Problem solving interview questions

• In the next year, we plan to hire X senior-level employees and Y junior employees. If our annual turnover rate is Z%, how would you calculate next year’s payroll expense budget? What other info would you need to be super accurate?
• How would you modify a prospective hire’s comp package, if they’re after a higher salary?
• If an employee was underpaid, would you compensate the difference asap or add it to next month’s payroll? Why?
• How would you identify a gender pay gap?

Role-specific interview questions

• How would you conduct a compensation analysis for a specific role?
• How do you make sure your data entry is super accurate?
• What’s included in local taxes withholdings?
• What payroll software have you used before?

Behavioral interview questions

• How do you stay up-to-date with changes in labor legislation?
• How would you proactively identify a payroll error?
• How do you simply explain financial and insurance details to employees?
• What’s the biggest challenge you’ve dealt with? What happened?