What the Comp?!
The Pay Strategy Podcast
What the Comp?! – The Pay Strategy Podcast is hosted by Jennifer Loftus, National Director at Astron Solutions.
Each episode helps human resources, finance, and organizational leaders make compensation clearer, stronger, and easier to explain. Subscribe for practical conversations on pay transparency, salary structure, market data, employee communication, and compensation strategy.
- by Cassandra Carver
In this episode of What the Comp?! – The Pay Strategy Podcast, Jennifer Loftus explores why reactive retention adjustments can sometimes create more compensation problems than they solve.
- by Cassandra Carver
In this episode of What the Comp?! – The Pay Strategy Podcast, Jennifer Loftus takes on one of the most common—and most misunderstood—retention tools in the workplace: the counteroffer.
- by Cassandra Carver
In this episode of What the Comp?! – The Pay Strategy Podcast, Jennifer Loftus explores why starting salary offers are about much more than getting a candidate to say yes.
- by Cassandra Carver
In this special episode of What the Comp?! – The Pay Strategy Podcast, Jennifer Loftus is joined by Michael Maciekowich, National Director at Astron Solutions, for a different kind of 2026 conference season recap.
- by Cassandra Carver
In this special bonus episode of What the Comp?!, host Jennifer Loftus is joined by Astron Solutions colleagues Kim Harmon, Senior Compensation Consultant, and Nick Velazquez, Senior Compensation Analyst, for an inside look at two of the year’s biggest Human Resources and compensation events.
- by Cassandra Carver
In this episode of What the Comp?!, Jennifer Loftus, National Director at Astron Solutions, explores why total rewards messaging is one of the biggest missed opportunities in compensation and benefits.