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Set pay bands for your roles that you can explain to your team
Give it your roles and budget. Get market pay, explainable pay bands and a bonus and benefits plan.
Set fair pay bands and a pay and benefits plan is a free AI workflow for the job "Hire and look after your people". It guides your AI through several skills in order, passing each step's output to the next.
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What it does
Pay set one offer at a time drifts. People doing the same job end up on different pay, and nobody can explain why. New hires cost more than the people already there, and the first question you cannot answer is "how did you set my pay?" The steps give pay a method. First it gathers what the market pays for each role and flags where your pay is far off. Then it sets a band for each role that fits that data, with the method written in plain words. Last it builds a pay philosophy, a bonus plan and a benefits list that fit the bands and your budget. You check the maths and decide.
You give it
- The roles, levels and place for each
- What you pay now, if you have people in those roles (optional)
- Your total budget or a limit per role
- Any market pay data you already have (optional)
You get
- Market pay ranges for each role, with outliers flagged
- Pay bands with a low, middle and high and a method in plain words
- A pay philosophy, a bonus plan and a benefits list that fit your budget
- Equity grant models if you offer equity
Use it when
- You are about to make offers and have no pay ranges.
- Two people do the same job on very different pay.
- Someone asks how their pay was set and you have no clear answer.
Steps
- Pay benchmark and equity modeler: Give it a role or pay data. Get market ranges, outliers and equity grant models. Not pay or tax advice.
- Pay band builder: Give it a role and market pay data. Get a pay range and a clear method you can explain to leaders.
- Pay and benefits plan builder: Describe your roles and budget. Get a pay philosophy, pay bands, a bonus plan and a benefits list. Check the maths yourself.
How to use it
- Download the handoff pack. It is a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.
- Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
- List each role with its level and place. Add what you pay now if you can.
- Check the market ranges against one source you trust before the bands are set.
- Check every sum in the plan by hand and have an adviser review it before you share it.