Beyond the Paycheck · 2026-02-16 · 27 min
Rethinking Total Rewards: Dr. Jermaine King on Pay, Flexibility, and Custom Benefits Summary Are your pay practices and benefits keeping pace with what employees actually value? HR executive and leadership consultant Dr. Jermaine King - retired from the United States Air Force - breaks down how to modernize compensation and benefits with clarity, choice, and data. He explains the biggest gap he sees today: market pay is a living, moving target, while reviews are still annual. Dr. King shares why HR must teach the “how and why” of benefits (not just list them), how flexibility has become real currency alongside pay, and why recruitment marketing should spotlight all roles, not just headline ones. He offers concrete examples - from building a transportation program to reduce turnover to pairing Power BI dashboards with Qualtrics to capture the “why” behind the numbers. He closes with a 30-day listening experiment any leader can run to increase trust and take action fast.
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