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Compensation and Benefits: C&B, Total Rewards, 2500+ Tools
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Compensation and Benefits: C&B, Total Rewards, 2500+ Tools
Design employee pay: compensation management, human resources payroll, remuneration plans, benefits, calculators
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn
- Take away 2,500+ C&B tools in 540 downloadable resources: lecture presentations plus templates, calculators and pay matrices
- Get our top working files: job evaluation workbook, range builder, pay gap calculator, benefits utilization tracker
- See 42 services and apps on screen, from a quick look to a detailed demo: PeopleForce, 15Five, TMA Competency Library, Effy AI, Marissa AI and more
- Build salary ranges and a job grading system with ready grade templates, pay structure checklists and calculators
- Design bonus and incentive plans with ready formulas, KPI sets, payout tables and sales compensation plan templates
- Run salary benchmarking, payroll budgeting and pay reviews with 85+ formulas and metric sets and 185+ pay matrices
- Check pay equity and prepare for pay transparency rules with gap calculators, range builders and policy templates
- Handle pay conversations with 310+ question lists and scripts for managers, employees and candidates
- Design benefits and flexible benefits programmes with needs assessments, comparison tables and business cases
- Learn with Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy: 1,800,000+ enrollments, 170,000 students, about 200 books on Amazon
- Draw on 20 years of hands-on HR practice at Preply, Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank
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Course content
55 sections • 377 lectures • 204h 33m total length
Requirements
- No prior knowledge of compensation and benefits required: every method comes with a template or calculator you can use
- Nothing to buy for the course itself: files and slide decks are attached to the lectures
- A spreadsheet app and a document editor to open the files (Excel or Google Sheets, Word or Google Docs)
- This is a large library: start with the three core sections, then open the specialist sections you need
- English at intermediate level or above
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
2,575 compensation and benefits tools in one course: 1,853 ready-to-use files, templates, checklists, scripts and pay matrices, 42 services and apps shown on screen, plus 680 models and methods.
Open a lecture, take the tool, use it in this month's pay review, bonus plan or benefits decision.
Why pay decisions are so hard to defend
Every pay decision is questioned by someone: the employee, the manager, finance, the CEO. Without a grading system, a range and a rule, each case becomes a negotiation, and each exception becomes a precedent. Building the system from scratch takes months that a C&B specialist never has, so decisions keep being made case by case, and the questions keep coming.
What changes after this course
You answer with a tool instead of an opinion. A grade and a salary range for the role. A matrix for the increase. A formula for the bonus. A comparison table for the benefit. A script for the conversation. Decisions become consistent, and you can show how each one was made.
What is inside: 2,575 tools, counted file by file
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
- 540 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations plus 159 standalone working files (calculators, range builders, planners, trainers, policy and document templates)
- 1,694 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
- 399 templates and sample documents: compensation philosophy, sales commission calculation, long-term incentive calculation, competitor benefits comparison
- 318 question lists and conversation scripts: compensation philosophy design, grade structure design, benefits satisfaction survey, variable pay design
- 298 step-by-step procedures and workflows: bonus system design, job grading implementation, salary survey data aging, pay structure development
- 277 checklists: employee benefits, salary survey selection, salary budgeting, bonus scheme design
- 191 pay matrices, scorecards and rubrics: point-factor job evaluation, merit increase matrix, grade-based target bonus schedule, business-aligned benefits selection matrix
- 93 ready AI prompts: salary inconsistency analysis, grading factor level generation, single-role market pricing, pay equity analysis
- 89 formulas and metric sets: salary survey statistical measures, benefits utilization and cost metrics, compa-ratio and range penetration, bonus accrual and true-up trace
- 29 other working tools: sales commission cap decision tree, benefits objectives ranking worksheet, salary survey source selection tree, promotion and off-cycle adjustment rules
- 42 services and apps shown on screen, from a quick look to a detailed demo: PeopleForce, 15Five, TMA Competency Library, Effy AI, Marissa AI
- 680 models and methods explained with examples: Hay job evaluation, broadbanding pay structures, Total Rewards model, Herzberg's two-factor theory
Where the tools are
- Core path (80+ tools). C&B strategy, pay structures, incentives, benefits, salary benchmarking and budgeting.
- Pay and incentive design (400+ tools). Advanced total rewards, the full grading process, an express grading playbook, incentive systems, KPI systems for bonuses, benefits design and sales compensation plans.
- Pay equity and transparency (200 tools). Pay transparency and pay equity, the EU directive, compensation metrics and reward governance.
- Performance and pay (350+ tools). Performance reviews and appraisal for pay decisions, OKRs, review forms and improvement plans.
- Strategy (450+ tools). Strategic HR for total rewards, global compensation, EVP and strategic planning.
- Analytics and finance (300+ tools). HR analytics, HR budgeting, staff planning and finance for C&B.
- Certification prep (130 tools). WorldatWork CCP preparation with exam trainers.
- AI in C&B (80+ tools). Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT for compensation and benefits work.
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.
I have helped introduce grading as a practical way to manage pay. At the STB television channel, we implemented grades across the holding: 1,370 jobs in eight legal entities and 11 grades. Introducing grades made administration easier and increased shareholder trust in how company money was managed. It also provided a way to explain pay ranges and the next grade to employees. This experience informs the grading tools in this course.
How to use the course
Start with the three core sections on strategy, pay structures and benchmarking. Then treat the rest as a reference library. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name, so you can find the right tool without watching everything in order.
What is included
- 377 lectures across 55 sections, 204 hours
- 540 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and working files
- 2,575 tools across the lessons, ready to copy into your own work
- Lifetime access to all materials
- Active instructor support in the Q&A section
- A Udemy Certificate of Completion
Where to start
Take the pay question you expect to be asked next: a raise, a bonus, an offer. Find its section, open the lecture, and prepare the matrix or the calculation before the conversation. Specialists who decide with tools are trusted with bigger decisions, and every month of case-by-case pay costs the company money and you credibility. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- Compensation and benefits specialists who want ready calculators, matrices and templates for daily work
- HR managers responsible for salary structures, bonus plans and benefits programmes
- HR business partners who advise managers on pay decisions and need defensible tools
- HR generalists and payroll or finance professionals moving into compensation and benefits
- Business leaders and founders who want pay and bonus systems aligned with company goals
- Recruiters who want to benchmark salaries and negotiate offers with data