Our Mission
Our mission is to help our clients reach their social responsibility goals by providing high-quality compensation consulting services within their budgets. We work towards keeping organizations moving towards equitable compensation through strategy guidance, development, and implementation.
What We Do
Blue Whale Compensation provides specialized compensation consulting services to small and mid-size employers across various industries. We find innovative and customized solutions to meet the unique needs of our clients. We aim to increase each organization’s return on investment in employee pay while providing employees with a more meaningful work experience by identifying pay and growth opportunities.
How We Do It
We design, analyze, and develop competitive Compensation Programs that attract, retain, and reward highly competent employees. We leverage experience and wisdom to tailor flexible consulting solutions. Our team of consulting experts in compensation, engagement, leadership development, and surveys, use industry-leading data and analytics to empower clients. Clients gain the tools and insights they need to lead their healthcare, higher education, public sector, or nonprofit organization toward success.
Meet your Project Partners
Juan P. Garcia
After serving over 20 years in the roles of Director of Organizational Research and Director of Compensation at full-scale Human Resources Consulting firms, Juan decided to pursue opportunities to allow him to leverage the use of technology to make services more accessible to companies of all sizes and industries.
Vivian Caldera
For over 15 years, Vivian has specialized in Compensation Consulting. She has provided expertise in academia, medicine, banking, engineering, and many more.
Sandra Dee Bufalini
Ms. Bufalini’s professional background includes 33 years of professional/managerial compensation and benefits experience. Twenty-one of these years worked in the public sector at California State University (CSU), both at the Pomona and San Bernardino campuses.
Her responsibilities include compensation and classification studies, conducting classification reviews and appeals, providing equity salary analyses, participating in salary surveys/benchmarking positions, and implementing reorganizations in a Union environment.
Most recently, Ms. Bufalini worked Compensation Consultant for A. J. Gallagher, serving public sector employers (Cities, Counties, and Municipalities).
Success Stories
Hispanas Organized for Political Equality
Blue Whale, provided a comprehensive report, which I have been able to use to help plan out my staffing strategy. He is a wonderful listener, met every deadline, and treated my organization and me with respect. I truly enjoyed working with him on this project.
Code for Science & Society
The team at Blue Whale Compensation demonstrates a deeply-rooted investment in providing client services that are thorough, applicable, and lasting. The team’s principal, Juan Garcia, provided our organization with tools that we will be using to shape intentional growth for years to come!
Global Fund for Women
Once we started working on the project, Juan became a wonderful thought partner. He not only answered my questions but helped me think through the reasons for his answers. What I appreciated the most was that Juan was more a teacher helping me learn than he was a consultant who simply did all the work.
Reality Changers
Blue Whale Comp was a valuable resource and an excellent partner in creating an updated compensation plan for our non-profit. His expertise enabled us to not only access and review competitive market data, but also make research-based recommendations for updating our pay structure and incentives.
Community Food Club
Our small nonprofit had never done any kind of compensation reviews before and I was nervous about our project. Juan was very thoughtful, trustworthy, and professional. His compensation report helped our board of directors make informed decisions regarding wages for our team.
Blue Whale is a one-stop shop for all of your consulting needs. Juan is very knowledgeable, helpful, and responsive to all of our needs. He developed and delivered an easy to administer compensation program and took the time to thoroughly train the Human Resources team and provide them the tools to successfully classify new and updated positions. We couldn’t recommend him enough.
Engagements Scope
About Blue Whale Compensation LLC
Blue Whale Compensation Services, a subsidiary of SABAC Ventures, is a consulting firm providing compensation advisory services to employers and consulting businesses throughout the US, Canada, and Latin America.
Blue Whale’s mission is to improve the competitiveness of a client’s enterprise by conducting human capital modeling and offering scalable online solutions that add value to the total reward programs, compensation functions, employee benefits, and employee perks.
SABAC Ventures specializes in Human Capital Consulting, which enables companies to achieve best-in-class performance levels.
SABAC Ventures is a data-centric organization and embraces the development of open Human Capital Management (HCM) systems.