Tenure Comp Intelligence · Advisory
Compensation and benefits advisory, built on data you would otherwise pay to have built.
A fixed-scope engagement for teams that need more than a dashboard: a defensible pay structure, an executive compensation review, or a board-ready benchmarking report. Built on the same verified Gulf data behind the Tenure Pay Index, delivered by the founder who maintains it.
Fixed scope · fixed fee · UAE and Saudi
Why this exists
A dashboard tells you where the market sits. It does not set your bands, defend your numbers to the board, or fix a structure that is already broken.
Growing Gulf employers hit the same wall: headcount outpaces structure, Emiratisation and Saudisation quotas force hiring decisions on a deadline, and there is no comp function to build a defensible pay position from scratch. Tenure Advisory is the deliverable, not just the data.
Bands set by guesswork
Offers decided role by role with no structure behind them, creating inequity and turnover the moment two hires compare notes.
Executive pay with no benchmark
Founders and early leaders paid without a defensible reference point, then asked by a board or investor to explain the number.
Incentive plans that do not move behavior
Commission structures copied from elsewhere without checking whether they match how your market actually pays for performance.
The catalogue
Six fixed-scope engagements. Pick the one you need.
Compensation benchmarking report
Every role in your organization mapped to a percentile against the Tenure Pay Index, sector by sector and market by market, with the source count behind every figure.
- Percentile position for every role against UAE and Saudi bands
- Source count and last-refresh date on every figure
- A one-page executive summary built for board circulation
Deliverable: Board-ready PDF report plus the underlying data file
Timeline: 1 to 2 weeks
Pay structure & grading design
A job-leveling framework and salary grade structure built around how your organization actually works, calibrated against verified Gulf pay data so every band is internally consistent and externally competitive.
- A leveling framework mapped to how your org actually hires and promotes
- Banded salary ranges per level, calibrated to the Pay Index
- A placement guide for slotting existing staff into the new structure
Deliverable: Grading framework with banded pay ranges per level
Timeline: 3 to 4 weeks
Executive compensation review
A benchmarked review of base, bonus, and long-term incentive for your leadership team, so the board and the founders work from the same defensible number.
- Base, bonus, and long-term incentive benchmarked against verified peers
- A pay-for-performance check against company results
- A board-ready summary framed for a governance discussion
Deliverable: Executive comp report with peer positioning
Timeline: 2 to 3 weeks
Sales & incentive plan design
Commission and bonus structures built to drive the behavior you actually want, benchmarked against verified sales compensation data for your sector and market.
- Commission and bonus mechanics benchmarked to your sector and market
- Payout modeling across realistic performance scenarios
- A plan document ready for rollout and rep communication
Deliverable: Incentive plan design with payout modeling
Timeline: 2 to 3 weeks
Total rewards strategy
A full review of pay, benefits, and non-cash reward against the market you compete for talent in, with a prioritized roadmap for where to spend next.
- A full audit of pay, benefits, and non-cash reward against the market
- Spend-versus-impact read across every reward category
- A prioritized roadmap for the next 12 months
Deliverable: Total rewards audit with a prioritized roadmap
Timeline: 3 to 4 weeks
Pay equity & internal equity audit
A statistical read on pay gaps by gender, level, and function inside your own roster, checked against the external market so you know whether a gap is a market reality or something to fix.
- A statistical pay-gap read by gender, level, and function
- An external market check to separate a market reality from a fix-it gap
- A remediation cost estimate if adjustments are needed
Deliverable: Equity audit report with a remediation estimate
Timeline: 2 to 3 weeks
Why Tenure Advisory
The same data, the same standards, a finished deliverable.
1,138
Verified primary sources
246
Source-counted pay bands
0
Self-reported figures
Fixed fee
Set before work starts
Built on data we already have
Most compensation advisory work starts by building a market view from scratch. Ours starts from the Tenure Pay Index, so the benchmarking is done before the engagement begins. That is why a fixed-scope report can turn around in weeks, not months.
Gulf-native from day one
Every deliverable accounts for Emiratisation and Saudisation quotas, end-of-service gratuity liability, and the hiring dynamics specific to UAE and Saudi, not a global framework retrofitted for the region afterward.
Fixed scope, fixed fee
The price is set at scoping, before any work starts. No hourly billing, no time-and-materials invoice, no scope creep mid-engagement.
Delivered by the person behind the data
Not handed off to a graduate analyst. The same person who sources and verifies every Tenure Pay Index band does the work on your engagement.
Every engagement is led by Liam Digan, founder of Tenure Comp Intelligence.
Meet the founderHow it works
Four steps from scoping call to finished deliverable.
1
Scoping call
A 30-minute call to understand your headcount, sectors, and what a finished deliverable needs to do for you or your board.
2
Data pull and analysis
Your roles are matched against the live Tenure Pay Index across the specific sectors and markets in scope.
3
Draft review
A working session to pressure-test the numbers and the structure before anything is finalized.
4
Final deliverable
The report, structure, or plan, plus one follow-up session to walk your team or board through it.
FAQs
How is Advisory different from the Tenure Comp Intelligence subscription?
The subscription ($299/mo or $2,999/yr) gives your team self-serve access to the live Tenure Pay Index dashboard across all 12 sectors and both markets. Advisory is a fixed-scope engagement where Tenure does the analysis and delivers a finished report, structure, or plan. Most Advisory clients also run the subscription day to day, but it is not required to start an engagement.
How is Advisory priced?
Every engagement is scoped and fixed-fee before work begins, based on headcount, sector count, and the deliverable you need. There is no hourly billing and no surprise invoice.
Which markets and sectors does Advisory cover?
UAE and Saudi, across all 12 sectors in the Tenure taxonomy. If your team spans a sector or market Tenure does not yet have primary-source data for, we will say so on the scoping call before you commit to anything.
How fast is turnaround?
Most engagements complete in 2 to 4 weeks depending on scope. A single-sector benchmarking report can turn around in as little as one week.
Who actually does the work?
Liam personally — the same person who sources, verifies, and publishes every band in the Tenure Pay Index. There is no junior-analyst layer between the data and your deliverable.
Want to see the underlying data first? Read the Q2 2026 GCC Compensation Report, built on the same primary-source bands behind every Advisory engagement.
Not sure which engagement fits
Start with a 30-minute scoping call, not a generic proposal.
Tell us what you are trying to solve. If Advisory is not the right fit, we will say so before you spend anything.
Request a scoping call