Compensation and benefits advisory, built on data you would otherwise pay to have built.
A fixed-scope, fixed-fee engagement for teams in UAE and Saudi that need more than a dashboard: a defensible pay structure, an executive compensation review, or an exec-ready benchmarking report. Built on the same verified Gulf data behind the Tenure Pay Index, delivered by the founder who maintains it.
A dashboard tells you where the market sits. It does not set your bands, defend your numbers to the exec team, or rebuild a structure under pressure.
Growing Gulf employers hit the same wall: headcount outpaces structure, Emiratisation and Saudisation quotas force hiring decisions on a deadline, and there is no comp function to build a defensible pay position from scratch. Tenure Advisory turns that data into the report, structure, or plan you actually need.
Bands set by guesswork
Offers decided role by role with no structure behind them, creating inequity and turnover the moment two hires compare notes.
Executive pay with no benchmark
Founders and early leaders paid without a defensible reference point, then asked by an exec team or investor to explain the number.
Incentive plans that do not move behavior
Commission structures copied from elsewhere without checking whether they match how your company and team operates and the goals they have set.
Six fixed-scope engagements. Pick the one you need.
Compensation benchmarking report
Every role in your organization mapped to a percentile against the Tenure Pay Index, sector by sector and market by market, with the source count behind every figure.
- Percentile position for every role against UAE and Saudi bands
- Source count and last-refresh date on every figure
- A one-page executive summary built for circulation with your exec team
Deliverable: Exec-ready PDF report plus the underlying data file
Timeline: 1 to 2 weeks
Pay structure & grading design
A job-leveling framework and salary grade structure built around how your organization actually works, calibrated against verified Gulf pay data so every band is internally consistent and externally competitive.
- A leveling framework mapped to how your org actually hires and promotes
- Banded salary ranges per level, calibrated to the Pay Index
- A placement guide for slotting existing staff into the new structure
Deliverable: Grading framework with banded pay ranges per level
Timeline: 3 to 4 weeks
Executive compensation review
A benchmarked review of base, bonus, and long-term incentive for your leadership team, so your exec team works from one defensible number.
- Base, bonus, and long-term incentive benchmarked against verified peers
- A pay-for-performance check against company results
- A summary framed for an exec-team discussion
Deliverable: Executive comp report with peer positioning
Timeline: 2 to 3 weeks
Sales & incentive plan design
Commission and bonus structures built to drive the behavior you actually want, benchmarked against verified sales compensation data for your sector and market.
- Commission and bonus mechanics benchmarked to your sector and market
- Payout modeling across realistic performance scenarios
- A plan document ready for rollout and rep communication
Deliverable: Incentive plan design with payout modeling
Timeline: 2 to 3 weeks
Total rewards strategy
A full review of pay, benefits, and non-cash reward against the market you compete for talent in, with a prioritized roadmap for where to spend next.
- A full audit of pay, benefits, and non-cash reward against the market
- Spend-versus-impact read across every reward category
- A prioritized roadmap for the next 12 months
Deliverable: Total rewards audit with a prioritized roadmap
Timeline: 3 to 4 weeks
Pay equity & internal equity audit
A statistical read on pay gaps by gender, level, and function inside your own roster, checked against the external market so you know whether a gap is a market reality or something to fix.
- A statistical pay-gap read by gender, level, and function
- An external market check to separate a market reality from a fix-it gap
- A remediation cost estimate if adjustments are needed
Deliverable: Equity audit report with a remediation estimate
Timeline: 2 to 3 weeks
The same data, the same standards, a finished deliverable.
1,138
Verified primary sources
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Source-counted pay bands
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Self-reported figures
Fixed fee
Set before work starts
Built on data we already have
The benchmarking is already done. Every engagement starts from the Tenure Pay Index already in place, not a market view built from scratch, which is why a fixed-scope report can turn around in weeks, not months.
Gulf-native from day one
Every deliverable accounts for Emiratisation and Saudisation quotas, end-of-service gratuity liability, and the hiring dynamics specific to UAE and Saudi, not a global framework retrofitted for the region afterward.
Fixed scope, fixed fee
The price is set at scoping, before any work starts. No hourly billing, no time-and-materials invoice, no scope creep mid-engagement.
Delivered by the person behind the data
The same person who sources and verifies every Tenure Pay Index band does the analysis on your engagement, start to finish.
See who you would actually be working with.
Meet the founderFour steps from scoping call to finished deliverable.
1
Scoping call
A 30-minute call to understand your headcount, sectors, and what a finished deliverable needs to do for you or your exec team.
2
Data pull and analysis
Your roles are matched against the live Tenure Pay Index across the specific sectors and markets in scope.
3
Draft review
A working session to pressure-test the numbers and the structure before anything is finalized.
4
Final deliverable
The report, structure, or plan, plus one follow-up session to walk your team through it.
FAQs
The subscription (from $249/mo billed annually, or $299/mo month-to-month) gives your team self-serve access to the live Tenure Pay Index dashboard across all 12 sectors and both markets. Advisory is a fixed-scope engagement where Tenure does the analysis and delivers a finished report, structure, or plan. Most Advisory clients also run the subscription day to day, but it is not required to start an engagement.
Every engagement is scoped and fixed-fee before work begins, based on headcount, sector count, and the deliverable you need. There is no hourly billing and no surprise invoice.
UAE and Saudi, across all 12 sectors in the Tenure taxonomy. If your team spans a sector or market Tenure does not yet have primary-source data for, we will say so on the scoping call before you commit to anything.
Most engagements complete in 2 to 4 weeks depending on scope. A single-sector benchmarking report can turn around in as little as one week.
The founder personally. The same person who sources, verifies, and publishes every band in the Tenure Pay Index does the analysis on your engagement.
Want to see how the underlying data is built first? Read the Pay Index methodology, the same primary-source bands behind every Advisory engagement.
Start with a 30-minute scoping call, not a generic proposal.
Tell us what you are trying to solve. If Advisory is not the right fit, we will say so before you spend anything.