We specialize in crafting executive compensation plans that align with your goals and attract top talent. By analyzing market trends and benchmarking against industry standards, we design packages with base salary, annual incentives, and long-term rewards to ensure competitiveness and effectiveness.
Kavea are the experts in compensation planning for nonprofits, crafting tailored programs for executives, board members, and employees. Our services ensure compliance with IRS regulations and 990 disclosures, attracting and retaining top talent while safeguarding your organization’s tax status.
At Kavea, we provide detailed employee compensation analyses by examining base salaries, total cash, and long-term incentives. Our focus on industry benchmarks ensures your compensation strategy aligns with market standards, helping you gauge competitiveness and make informed decisions.
Our evaluation of Board of Directors compensation involves benchmarking against industry leaders and trends. We provide insights into market best practices to design structures that keep your organization competitive and attract top Directorial talent, positioning you as a leader in the field.
Kavea provides comprehensive compensation risk assessments, ensuring your pay practices comply with SEC requirements and identifying potential risks. Our independent evaluations enhance transparency and help mitigate risks, ensuring a robust pay structure and accurate annual proxy statements.
Ensure fairness with Kavea’s Pay Equity Audit, which addresses discrimination by evaluating job alignment, analyzing data, and checking legal compliance. Our process identifies and corrects pay discrepancies, helping you manage litigation risks and establish equitable pay practices.
Kavea’s annual incentive planning services focus on aligning compensation with performance metrics. We design and optimize incentive programs, involving senior management, compensation committees, and consultants to ensure effective planning, evaluation, and communication for motivating employees and achieving organizational goals.
Our long-term incentive planning services at Kavea focus on creating competitive, clear, and motivating programs. We align LTIPs with long-term goals, offer market-competitive wealth-building opportunities, and provide flexibility, ensuring retention and fostering value creation while supporting organizational growth and success.
Kavea specializes in designing tailored Salary Grade Structures to enhance your compensation framework. Our services ensure clarity and alignment, making your workforce’s compensation competitive and systematically organized according to levels of responsibility and contribution within your organization.
We follow a five-step process that helps you build a solid compensation strategy from the ground up:
You can’t afford to get pay wrong in New York. With the competition for talent at an all-time high, your compensation strategy should be a competitive advantage—not just a cost of doing business.
Get in touch with our New York team today to see how Kavea can help you build compensation programs that work—Aligning Pay with Purpose™
We specialize in public, private, and nonprofit organizations, with deep experience in healthcare, energy, financial services, education, and mission-driven sectors.
Yes. We tailor compensation strategies for nonprofits, foundations, privately held companies, and public enterprises alike.
Our clients range from small nonprofits to large enterprises with thousands of employees. We adapt our approach to your size, needs, and goals.
Yes. We maintain strict confidentiality and do not share client data or compensation models with any third party.
We provide flat-fee or milestone-based pricing depending on the project scope, not hourly billing. You’ll always know what to expect upfront.
We offer both. Some clients engage us for one-time studies or board support, while others retain us for ongoing compensation governance.