Webinar
Practical actions to manage wage compression
When: Thursday 2 July | 11am BST
Duration: 45 minutes
Wage compression is becoming a structural challenge across UK organisations, driven by national living wage increases, flat pay awards and affordability constraints. In this session Dean Morley, a consultant with more than 26 years’ HR leadership experience, examines how bottom end compression can be diagnosed and addressed through practical, market aligned actions.
The webinar will be relevant to organisations that are at the beginning in terms of wage structures, as well as those with established structures but who are experiencing compression at the lower ends.
What the session will cover:
The session will include live Q&A, with the opportunity to submit questions in advance as well as on the day.
- What bottom end wage compression looks like.
- How NLW pressures and flat awards create “bunching” and loss of differentials.
- A case study from a London based university: what the data shows and why it matters.
- Practical actions that can be taken to fix compression.
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When: Thursday 2 July | 11am BST
Duration: 45mins
More about our contributors
Dean Morley
Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and Director of People Capital Ltd
Dean Morley is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and Director of People Capital Ltd, with more than 26 years’ senior HR leadership experience across Higher Education and the Civil Service. He now specialises in reward and strategic workforce planning projects.
Dean’s reward expertise includes leading major reward transformations across multiple HE institutions, including progression and promotion frameworks, senior pay systems and benefit redesigns. He effectively blends practitioner realism with market‑based design, affordability modelling and practical approaches to address structural challenges, such as bottom‑end wage compression. His work has been recognised in sector case studies and CIPD awards, and Dean is a regular speaker at HE sector masterclasses on reward, pay progression and senior pay governance.
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