Associate Analyst, Total Rewards

About The Role ACPWB is hiring a Associate Analyst, Total Rewards to support a Workforce Analytics team of 15 analysts and associates. If you are early in your career and want to learn incentive plan data analysis and modeling support at a firm that takes the craft seriously, this role was designed for you. You will be mentored by a Director and participate in the Research Rotation Initiative from your first day.

About The Role ACPWB is hiring a Associate Analyst, Total Rewards to support a Workforce Analytics team of 15 analysts and associates. If you are early in your career and want to learn incentive plan data analysis and modeling support at a firm that takes the craft seriously, this role was designed for you. You will be mentored by a Director and participate in the Research Rotation Initiative from your first day.

The Associate Analyst, Total Rewards is an entry point into ACPWB's Workforce Analytics practice for candidates who are serious about building a career in incentive plan data analysis and modeling support. You will work alongside experienced advisors and analysts, contributing to real deliverables from your first week. This is not a coffee-and-copies role. We expect genuine effort and genuine curiosity.

We will provide genuine training.

• Assist in the preparation of client-ready spreadsheets, charts, and supporting exhibits
• Support senior analysts and associates with data collection, cleaning, and validation for incentive plan data analysis and modeling support engagements
• Contribute to peer review and proofreading of client deliverables before distribution
• Support the collection and organization of proxy statement and SEC filing data
• Assist in maintaining and updating ACPWB's proprietary benchmarking data libraries
• Complete assigned compliance, ethics, and professional development training modules on schedule
• Provide research support for ACPWB thought leadership publications and white papers on incentive plan data analysis and modeling support

Required

• Recent graduate or candidate with up to 2 years of relevant internship or work experience
• Ability to work accurately under deadline pressure in a client-services environment
• 2 years or less of professional experience — this is an entry-level role and will be evaluated accordingly
• Interest in compensation, human capital, or workforce research as a professional focus
• GPA of 3.3 or above, or equivalent demonstrated academic performance

Preferred

• Familiarity with compensation concepts such as base pay, total cash, or equity compensation
• Experience with survey research methods or primary data collection
• Experience with any data analysis tool beyond Excel (Python, R, Stata, or similar)
• Coursework in statistics, econometrics, industrial-organizational psychology, or labor economics
• Multilingual capability, particularly Spanish, for support on multinational client research

ACPWB occupies a distinctive position: large enough to be credible, small enough to be agile, old enough to have a track record, young enough to still be building it. The people who thrive here find that combination energizing rather than disorienting.

ACPWB was founded in Milwaukee in 2006 with a simple mandate: help working Americans understand and advocate for the compensation they deserve. Eighteen years later, that mandate has grown into a full-service research and advisory practice serving clients from early-stage employers to Fortune 50 enterprises — and we are still based in Milwaukee, because Milwaukee is genuinely underrated.

We run a structured interview process with three stages: an initial screen with talent acquisition, a substantive conversation with the hiring manager and a peer, and a final panel that includes a take-home case study presentation. The case study is designed to take no more than three hours, which is our attempt at respecting your time.

• Complete all modules of the Research Rotation Initiative and pass the associated skills assessment
• Demonstrate the ability to independently manage a small, well-defined research task from start to finish
• Identify one area where you can add unique value to the team — and begin doing so
• Complete all mandatory compliance and training requirements on or ahead of schedule
• Take ownership of at least one recurring team responsibility — a data update, a tracking log, a template — and execute it reliably

Applications for this position are being accepted through September 12, 2026.