Villareal and Associates is Tulsa Oklahoma's premiere professional consulting, staffing and human resource firm!
We offer compensation surveys, job evaluation and grading studies, market pricing studies, incentive compensation plans, long-term incentive and stock-related compensation plans and performance appraisal systems!

Compensation and Salary Surveys, Market Pricing Studies and Pay Comparison Services

Villareal Associates specializes in designing and conducting tailored compensation surveys for clients. In addition, we have an extensive database of published compensation surveys from which we can draw competitive pay information to assist clients in updating their pay practices.

Our firm has designed and conducted compensation surveys for clients on a broad range of topics. Normally, these surveys are conducted to help clients ensure that their compensation practices are, or remain, competitive. They generally focus on cash compensation practices - i.e., base salaries, incentive compensation, bonus arrangements, etc. - but can also include benefit and perquisite practices.

When rapid response is a priority, or the situation does not require the precision that a tailored survey provides, our extensive database of published surveys is available to assist clients price one or two jobs or an array of positions. The turnaround time in drawing from our published surveys and helping clients "price their jobs" is normally minimal. These published sources can be quite useful in saving clients time and money.

The compensation surveys and related pay comparisons we perform for clients can be conducted either as stand alone projects, or as part of a broader compensation study where our firm is engaged to develop a formal compensation program for the client and job pricing is an important part of the engagement.

 Basic Compensastion Survey Services Provided Basis for Compensation and Salary Survey Fees Representative Compensation and Salary Survey Engagements Return to Home Top of page


Basic salary and compensation survey services provided

  1. Tailored compensation surveys
  2. Market pricing using published surveys
  3. Recommendations regarding pay range or pay structure adjustments
  4. Competitive pay analysis and positioning
  5. Pay strategy development





Basis for compensation and salary survey fees

Fees for these consulting services are based on the time devoted to an engagement or project by the consultants involved. Our fees for consulting projects can be estimated in advance of the engagement, based on the anticipated time required to successfully complete the project. In the case of smaller projects, where the client may desire the pricing of selected jobs or advice on a particular compensation issue, fees are based on the time required to meet the client's need.






Salary and compensation survey projects completed since 1999


Representative compensation salary survey consulting projects completed by the firm in the past few years include:
1. Privately-held publishing company with $150 million in annual revenues and 800 employees in both domestic and international locations.
-- Developed and conducted tailored salary surveys.
-- Perform annual compensation reviews and updates involving market salary analysis.
2. Major medical center with 1,500 employees.
-- Conduct annual pay range reviews and adjustments for management positions.
3. Large, fast-food restaurant chain with $120 million in annual revenues and 1,200 employees.
-- Perform periodic compensation updates involving market salary analysis.
4. Privately-held manufacturer and marketer of food products with $150 million in annual revenues and 800 employees.
-- Perform compensation updates involving market survey analysis.
5. Area United Way and non-profit agencies.
-- Design and conduct bi-annual compensation survey to identify competitive pay and benefit practices among area non-profit organizations (on-going project).
6. Privately-held manufacturer and marketer of industrial chemicals with $400 million in annual revenues and 1,200 employees in domestic and international locations.
-- Conducted compensation surveys.
7. State Corporation Commission
-- Conducted in-depth study of compensation programs and practices of the four investor-owned utilities.
-- Designed and conducted extensive compensation survey in connection with this study.
8.

Major Oklahoma airport authority
-- Conducted organization studies and recommended design of new or revised jobs.
-- Conducted comprehensive compensation survey to identify competitive pay practices.
-- Re-evaluated and regarded positions to ensure pay competitiveness.
9. Publicly-traded oil and gas exploration, production and property acquisition company.
-- Conducted compensation surveys and market analysis work for the Compensation Committee of the Board.
10. Publicly-traded (NYSE) energy resources company with over 1,000 employees.
-- Conducted periodic compensation surveys.
11. Major NYSE energy company with both domestic and international operations and over 10,000 employees.
-- Conducted industry compensation survey.
12. Privately-held manufacturing company with $40 million in annual revenues and 350 employees.
-- Conducted compensation survey.
13. Publicly-traded energy company with over $6 billion in annual revenues and 12,000 employees.
-- Designed and conducted industry compensation survey.
14. Publicly-traded independent energy company with $12 billion in annual revenues and over 20,000 employees.
-- Conducted industry compensation survey.
15. Large independent energy company with over 1,000 employees.
-- Conducted compensation surveys.
16. Intra-state pipeline transmission company with 800 employees.
-- Conducted industry compensation surveys.