If you’re still doing work on Excel or homegrown, I would highly encourage you to look at an automated system. Not only will you have better reporting and analytics to understand where you are spending your money, but it will definitely help with the work-life-balance. Compensation is pretty complicated. You have people coming, you have people going, you’ve got quotas changing, people getting promoted…you need to have a system of record to manage all that. If you are doing it homegrown or you are doing it [by] managing it manually, it is going to get to the point where the scalability is not there. 

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