TraineryHCM combines the CompBldr compensation management platform with the consulting expertise of JER HR Group, 30 years of practice, 1,000+ clients. You get a compensation structure built by experienced consultants and a platform that maintains, monitors, and evolves it between engagements.
TraineryHCM is the intersection of CompBldr and JER HR Group. When you engage with us, you get a compensation management platform configured to your organization's structure — and the consulting expertise to build that structure correctly from the ground up. The platform implements the methodology.
Our consultants partner with HR, finance, and leadership teams to bring structure and defensibility to compensation.
CompBldr's JESAP Studio is the job evaluation interface that JER HR Group uses in its consulting practice. Every role is scored across 15 compensable factors with documented degree definitions visible during the evaluation. The running JESAP score and proposed grade update are shown in real time. Every evaluation saves as a numbered version with evaluator name and time stamp, so the grade record survives every restructure, every consultant transition,and every audit.

CompBldr Market Benchmarking blends six independent data sources, Salary.com, Bureau of Labor Statistics, ERI Economic Research, Mercer, Radford, and Willis Towers Watson, with weighted averaging, aging factors, and confidence scoring. Every position in your library has a live market P50 with a confidence score reflecting its statistical weighting. Your salary structure does not freeze at the time of the last consulting engagement.

Pay equity is not a one-time initiative. Gaps close and reopen as the workforce evolves, roles are reclassified, and compensation decisions change over time. CompBldr Analytics tracks pay equity across every compensation cycle, by gender, age, ethnicity, and custom criteria sets, so gaps surface in the platform before they apperar in a compliance review or an employee complaint.

Incentive structures, payout schedules, and performance metrics are implemented in CompBldr Compensation Planning, where merit and incentive cycles run in parallel. Budget modeling and payout analysis are built into the platform. The plan is not handed off in a document, it runs in the system your compensation team already uses.

A compensation structure without documented administration guidelines leads to inconsistent pay decisions within six months of launch. JER HR Group develops salary administration policies, merit increase matrices, new hire guidelines, and manager decision frameworks, and implements them in CompBldr so every pay decision is guided by the same standards, regardless of the manager is making it.

Most compensation decisions come down to a choice between hiring a consultant or buying software. TraineryHCM is built on the premise that this choice is a false one. Here is what that looks like in practice.
JER HR Group is a compensation consulting firm with 30+ years of practice.TraineryHCM combines JER HR Group's consulting expertise with the CompBldr compensation management platform. In a TraineryHCM engagement, your compensation structure is built by JER consultants and implemented directly into CompBldr, so it is maintained and monitored in the platform after the engagement closes.
CompBldr is the platform that implements and maintains the compensation work TraineryHCM consulting produces. The two are designed to work together. Organizations that engage TraineryHCM consulting without CompBldr receive the consulting deliverables but lose the ongoing monitoring, version control, and market benchmarking that the platform provides between engagements.
Most software vendors offer implementation support—not compensation expertise. TraineryHCM's consulting practice is backed by JER HR Group, one of the most experienced dedicated compensation consulting firms in the US. The methodology built into CompBldr—including JESAP job evaluation, is the same methodology JER HR Group has used with 1,000+ clients over 30 years.
CompBldr blends six independent sources: Salary.com, Bureau of Labor Statistics OES, ERI Economic Research Institute, Mercer TRS, Radford by Aon, and Willis Towers Watson. All six are weighted by sample size, adjusted with aging factors, and produce a blended market figure with a confidence score reflecting the statistical reliability of the data for each position.
JER HR Group consultants establish the initial equity baseline and cohort methodology during the consulting engagement. That methodology is implemented in CompBldr Analytics, which tracks compensation disparities by gender, age, ethnicity, and custom criteria through every subsequent merit cycle. Emerging gaps surface in the platform before they require a new consulting engagement to identify.
JESAP is a 15-factor point-based job evaluation methodology built for audit defensibility. It scores every role across four categories—Knowledge and Skills, Contacts, Responsibilities, and Working Conditions, producing a numeric total that maps to a grade band. Every evaluation is stored in CompBldr with full factor scores, evaluator name, and timestamp. Grades are traceable to documented degree selections, not committee opinion.
Yes. JER HR Group consultants design short-term and long-term incentive programs for executive, management, and staff populations. Incentive structures, performance metrics, and payout schedules are implemented in CompBldr Compensation Planning alongside merit cycles. Budget modeling and payout scenario analysis run within the platform your comp team already operates.
Engagement length depends on organization size, scope, and the state of existing compensation documentation. A foundational engagement covering job evaluation, market benchmarking, and pay structure design typically runs 12 to 20 weeks. Platform configuration and first-cycle support run concurrently with the consulting work so the system is live before the engagement closes.
TraineryHCM gives you a compensation structure built by experienced consultants and a platform that maintains, monitors, and evolves it, between engagements and beyond.