Webinar

The Pay Decisions Nobody’s Watching

August 20, 2026

EU: 4:00pm BST | 5:00pm CEST

US: 11:00am ET | 8:00am PT

Where pay governance breaks down, and how to catch it before it compounds.

Thousands of pay decisions happen inside your organization every day. Most look reasonable on their own. In total, they tell a different story about the compensation budget.

A candidate closes at $160K. The next hire for the same role comes in at $135K, one month later. Both technically within range. Neither measured against a consistent framework.

That’s not a rare exception. It’s at the heart of compensation challenges – pay inequities, under- and over-paying to market, compression – and it doesn’t get flagged because it doesn’t always look like a problem in the moment.

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Meet your speakers

Hear directly from the experts

Shonna Waters, PhD

Shonna Waters, PhD

SVP, Exec. Engagements & Insights

Syndio

Nancy Romanyshyn

Nancy Romanyshyn

Senior Director of Total Rewards Strategy & Solutions

Syndio

WHAT YOU'LL GET

The audit starts here

  • A walk-through of the four places pay decisions quietly go ungoverned: offer, merit, promotion, and remediation
  • The compounding math behind a single overpaid offer, and why $8,000 today becomes $42,000 over five years
  • A live audit you can run against your own organization, with a worksheet to take into your next conversation with your CHRO

WHY THIS, WHY NOW

Governance is coming for pay

Compensation is one of the largest lines on the P&L, and one of the only major spend categories without a governance framework. Procurement has controls. Capital spend has controls. Pay decisions get made in fifteen minutes with no record. This session pulls from new Syndio research, The Hidden Cost of Ungoverned Pay Decisions, and shows what closing that gap actually looks like for organizations already doing it.

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