About ICS
Founded in 2010, the Institute for Compensation Studies seeks to bridge between academic researchers and compensation practitioners to improve pay practices and societal outcomes through applied and translational research, training the talent pipeline, and expanding understanding around compensation and rewards to work.
We consider compensation broadly defined, to include all the monetary and nonmonetary (intangible) rewards that people receive for doing the work they do, in any location or employment structure. We are concerned with how rewards to work influence outcomes for companies and industries, as well as individuals and economies, worldwide.
ICS conducts cross-disciplinary research, provides student research mentorship, supports continuing education for professionals interested in pay practices, and convenes an Executives Forum network for corporate leads of total rewards. Learn more.
Staff
ICS Leadership brings together the best of interdisciplinary scholars of compensation with Cornell's renowned outreach expertise to build a community with practitioners and those who aspire to become compensation specialiists.
