Do You Actually Understand Your Paycheck? NFP's SVP of Total Rewards on Pay Transparency, Breaking Silos, and the Autopilot Problem

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Making Pay Make Sense: NFP’s Megan Nail on Pay Transparency, Total Rewards, and Financial Wellness Summary If your merit budget is flat while healthcare costs climb, employees can feel like they got a pay cut - even with a raise. How do you fix that? Megan Nail, SVP of Total Rewards Practice at NFP and a 25-year HR leader, lays out a practical playbook to move compensation and benefits off autopilot and into a coherent strategy. She explains how to align comp and benefits decisions, time financial wellness support to raises and bonuses, and communicate pay with clarity and fairness. Megan demystifies 2026’s biggest shift - pay transparency - covering what to publish, how to explain it, and how to equip managers for better conversations. She also shares real-world pay equity approaches (from Excel regressions to software) and why root causes - not one-time fixes - matter. Expect concrete guidance on targeted increases vs. “peanut butter” budgets, sunsetting low-usage benefits, and a 30-day experiment any listener can use to get more value from their paycheck.

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