RedRock Compensation Consulting is a full-service compensation consulting firm serving businesses and other organizations within Hartford and across Connecticut state.
We view compensation as a strategic tool for recognizing achievement, cultivating culture, and fostering sustainable growth. RedRock Compensation Consulting partners with organizations to create executive compensation, broad-based compensation, and equity/LTI solutions.
Our clients range from small businesses to Fortune 1000 companies in many different industries across Hartford and around the United States.
We place special emphasis on working with smaller publicly traded companies, growing private companies, family-owned businesses, and non-profits.
We take pride in delivering experienced, independent, and candid compensation advisory services using a collaborative approach. Our client retention ratio is above 90% indicating the long-term value we provide.
Our engagements begin with gathering quantitative and qualitative information. We develop an understanding of the client’s industry, business drivers, organization, performance, and culture. Data is analyzed from multiple perspectives to provide a comprehensive understanding of an existing program’s strengths and weaknesses. New plan designs are driven by the company’s business intentions and goals.
An important aspect of our consulting approach is collaboration with our clients. We have found that this improves results by better aligning our recommendations to the cultural realities of the organization. Our clients consider us thought partners in designing compensation systems that fit with their organizations.
Is your company located in Hartford, Stamford, Greenwich, or New Haven? We'd like to learn more about your specific compensation planning challenges.


The design of an executive compensation plan is a complex process. Each facet of the firm’s regulatory requirements, financial state, and company culture must be carefully considered and integrated into the design of each plan. We help our executive compensation clients make informed decisions by turning complex data into meaningful information.
Companies in Hartford want to know how to design compensation plans for their Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) as well as other C-Suite Executives so that they are competitive, incentivizing for the executives and will drive growth for the organization.
Key Questions We're Asked Include:
- What should a CEO compensation package include?
- How much should a CEO in Hartford be paid each year?
- Besides salary, how else can we incentivize our CEO and top executives?
- Can you provide comprehensive compensation analysis for CEOs in Hartford?
- Do you provide compensation design for Private Businesses or Family Owned Companies?
- Can you provide direction to our board compensation committee?
Core Executive Compensation Services
• Reward Strategy Determination • Shareholder Communication through the CD&A
• Peer Group Definition • Board of Director Plan Competitive Analysis and Design
• Executive Total Compensation Analysis • Intermediate Sanctions Safe Harbor Studies for
• Incentive Design and Governance Non-Profit Firms
• Short-Term Incentive Plan Design • Base Pay Analysis
• Long-Term Incentive Plan Design • Development of Proxy Exhibits and Assistance in Proxy
• Say on Pay Testing Writing
Aligning employee compensation with business goals and culture is one of the most powerful levers leaders have to create high-performing organizations. We help organizations design compensation structures that ensure alignment with your business and HR strategic goals.
Productive employees are the cornerstone of any highly functioning business. How do the leaders of a company continually find ways to maximize the return on employee compensation? It's done through well designed compensation plans that focus on the correct mix of wages, salaries, benefits, bonuses and other incentives that are related to employee's efforts.
Key questions we're asked include:
- How can we design an employee comp plan to maximize productivity?
- How do we design a comprehensive plan for our 1000 employees?
- Can you advise us on pay for performance plan strategies?
- How do we account for different employee segments?
- Can you help with indirect compensation planning?
• Reward Strategy Development • Short-Term Incentive Plan Design
• Total Reward Consulting • Compensation Job Architecture
• Base Salary Plan Development Career Frameworks
• Custom Job Evaluation System Development • Communication and Training


We recognize that a company can have a well-designed long-term incentive compensation plan and not achieve desired results. We partner with clients to develop equity incentive and other types of long-term incentives that are custom-designed and sized to the intentions of the organization for making awards to its executives and employees.
We work with LLCs and Partnerships, startups and pre-IPO entities, publicly traded companies and other high-growth organizations.
Key Questions We're Asked Include:
- How can we differentiate ourselves from the competition?
- How do we create an ownership culture?
- What types of long-term incentives make sense for our organization?
- Should we require our key employees to put “skin-in-the-game”?
- How do we avoid adverse tax consequences to our plan participants?
- Can you help with educating our employees on the value of company awards?
Core Equity and Long-Term Incentive Compensation Services
• Equity Compensation Evaluation • Financial Modeling
and Plan Design • Dilution Impact Analysis
• Innovative Stock Purchase Programs • Tax and Accounting Review
• Cash-Based Programs • Communication and Implementation
Sales and Revenue Generation are the essential foundation for every organization's growth and success. We understand the linkage between Go-To -Market, RevOps, Sales Compensation, and motivating your sales team. Sales roles must align with strategy. The sales cycle must align with customers' needs. A company can have a well-designed sales compensation plan and not achieve desired results.
We partner with clients to determine the best path to both quick and enduring success. Then we create communications that take into consideration the different stakeholders, the timing of the communications, message content, communication channels, and the communicator.
Core Sales Force Compensation Serivces
• Job Design and Alignment of Responsibilities
• Financial Modeling and Planning
• Sales Compensation Plan Evaluation
• Sales Compensation Plan Design
• Communication and Implementation

If you are considering hiring a compensation consulting firm – or making a change in compensation advisors – please read our article: When to Hire a Compensation Consulting Firm?
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