This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
369 tools for compensation and benefits with Claude in one course: 260 ready-to-use templates, procedures, AI prompts, matrices and checklists, 53 models and methods, 43 downloadable tool files, and 13 services and apps shown on screen.
Open a lecture, copy the prompt or download the file, use it on your own grades and ranges.
Why C&B work takes months
A grading project used to mean consultants, a two-day training and a long bill. Market pricing meant three surveys that do not match each other. A salary review meant a spreadsheet with a thousand rows and a week of checking formulas. Most of this work is structured thinking over data, and this is what an AI assistant does well, if it has the method, the data and the checks.
What changes after this course
You have a Claude Project that knows your job architecture. You evaluate a job by the Hay method in minutes and can explain the result. You build ranges from market data and see who is outside them. You model three budget scenarios before the meeting with the CFO. Each employee gets a statement that shows the whole package. And the data you load is anonymized by a checklist.
What is inside: 369 tools, counted lecture by lecture
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.
- 260 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
- 66 templates and sample documents: Total Rewards Statement template, compensation budget scenario assumptions template, merit increase communication samples, strategic benefits package template
- 46 step-by-step procedures and workflows: Job Architect project setup, job grading implementation, pay equity analysis, batch statement generation
- 40 ready AI prompts: Hay job evaluation prompt, single-role market pricing prompt, merit matrix generation prompt, three-scenario compensation budget prompt
- 39 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: IC and management career level matrix, salary percentile placement matrix, hiring versus merit budget decision matrix, incentive scheme selection matrix
- 34 checklists: salary review data anonymization, compensation budget validation, salary survey selection, benchmark job selection
- 15 question lists and scripts: CFO budget defense questions, compensation philosophy design questions, positive salary review conversation script
- 7 formulas and metric sets: compa-ratio, salary range spread calculation, total compensation calculation
- 13 other working tools: salary survey source selection, promotion and off-cycle adjustment rules, calibration preparation, benefits objectives ranking
- 53 models and methods explained with examples: Hay job evaluation method, Mercer IPE, WTW Global Grading, market pricing, broadbanding, WorldatWork Total Rewards model
- 43 downloadable tool files: Hay Evaluation Scorecard, Job Architecture Builder, Market Pricing Calculator, Salary Structure Builder, Pay Equity Analyzer, Salary Review Modeler, Comp Budget Modeler, Total Rewards Statement Builder and others
- 13 services and apps shown on screen, from a quick look to a detailed demo: Claude, ChatGPT, Payscale, Carta, Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, Bonusly and others
Where the tools are
- Claude AI for C&B core (5 sections, 113 tools). Job architecture and grading, benchmarking and market pricing, salary review and pay equity, budgeting, benefits personalization and total rewards statements. 18 tool files are here, three for every lecture.
- Compensation, benefits and total rewards strategy (89 tools). The C&B craft: job analysis, grades, bonuses, benefits, salary surveys, budgeting and recognition.
- Claude Projects and AI Skills (111 tools). 25 tool files are here.
- Incentive systems and variable pay (61 tools).
- Employee benefits strategy (29 tools).
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 did this work by hand. At the STB TV channel I ran compensation and benefits: I introduced grading, planned the payroll budget and salary reviews, built the bonus system and started market reviews. When we wanted to put the jobs in order, hiring the Hay company was too expensive. It was after the crisis of 2008 and 2009, and consultants who had worked there were on the market. They gave us a two-day training and some advice on how to evaluate a job, and we evaluated our jobs by that method ourselves. Even so we paid about 10 thousand dollars. Today the same first draft takes an evening with a prepared assistant.
How to use the course
Start with the first four sections: grading, market pricing, salary review and budgeting, each with three files to fill in. Then open what you need next: strategy, Claude Projects and Skills, incentives or benefits. The last section covers benefits personalization and total rewards statements. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.
What is included
- 36 lectures across 9 sections, 18 hours
- 78 downloadable resources: 43 tool files and the lecture presentations
- 369 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 five jobs from one department. Open the first lecture, download the Hay Evaluation Scorecard and evaluate them with the Hay job evaluation prompt. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.
