Compensation Advisors Helping You Retain Talent

Your company’s most valuable asset is its employees. Which employees provide the most value to your company? Are you compensating them accordingly?

An unbiased, strategic approach to compensation

We help clients tackle their HR and compensation challenges. We create and implement custom human resources and compensation strategies to ensure you retain the right talent – those employees who will help your company thrive. Whether your company is small to middle market, has two to 10,000 employees, or somewhere in between, you can trust the experts at McDermott Associates to develop plans that are right for your vision and strategy.

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Our Services

Compensation Consulting

We design pay and incentive programs for executives and employees that reinforce your organization’s growth plans. We are expert at developing executive compensation, employee incentive, and sales compensation plans, as well as base pay programs, and board of directors’ remuneration plans.

Compensation Surveys

We run annual and custom compensation surveys for selected industries. These provide reliable, third-party data to help you compare your compensation packages to your competition and the broader market.

Organization Design

We work with you to design an organizational structure appropriate for your organizational goals, then ensure processes, talent, rewards, and metrics are aligned with your company’s strategic direction.

Performance Management

Our consultants design performance appraisal systems that improve employee engagement, reduce costs, grow sales, and improve management control.

Succession Planning

Link your succession plan to an effective compensation strategy by working with our senior consulting team, and you’ll be better positioned to retain and motivate your key employees.

MASTER Job Descriptions^©

We create job descriptions focused on “why” work is done, rather than the lists of tasks that describe “how” work is done. As a result, your company’s job descriptions become useful tools for recruitment, selection, and appraisal.

Discover how to maintain an edge over your competitors

Our free ebook explores the bridge between business strategy and compensation, offers critical insights for choosing the right compensation approach.

A must-read for compensation execs!

About Us

Founded in 1985, D.G. McDermott Associates, LLC, is a Red Bank, New Jersey, management consulting firm that provides practical human resources and compensation consulting to companies throughout the world. Company founder Don McDermott is a recognized authority in the field of human resources and compensation consulting. Don founded the company with a passion for providing hands-on, personal service to his clients. Such service has become the hallmark of our reputation.