One team of experts. Strategy, software, conversation.
Most organizations make their most significant people decisions on incomplete data: what to pay, who to hire, what's actually working. HR Data Labs closes that gap with a compensation practice, technology solutions, and a media company, built around one idea: better data means better decisions, and better decisions are worth talking about.
30 minutes · No sales pitch · Just an honest conversation · or listen to the podcast first →
Our Latest Thinking
Original research and straight answers on compensation, executive hiring, and where AI is changing the job, not the hype version.
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By Desiree Goldey, Senior Consultant and Project Lead, HR Data Labs Somewhere in the last two years, “we need to run a…
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For most of the last five years, board diversity in the United States moved in one direction. That run ended. New data…
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One team, three disciplines. Consulting, technology, and media, working together to help organizations make better decisions about their people.
Pillar One
Compensation strategy, job architecture, pay transparency, and Executive Search. The same team that reads your data is the one that fixes what it finds, no hand-off to a different practice group three months in.
Pillar Two
Podcasts, streaming, and graphic novels from the world of work. Some stories you listen to, some you watch, some you read three panels at a time, but they all come from people who've lived it and work in it every day.
Pillar Three
Simple tools for complicated business problems, built by people who've actually run a county compensation survey, tracked a consultant's time, or done job architecture, not just coded around one. No engineering degree required to use any of it.
Client Voices
Real results from real clients. Across consulting, media, and technology.
★★★★★ ConsultingCritical Help for a Modern Compensation Structure“David Turetsky and Angela Bailey (HR Data Labs) helped us build a compensation program grounded in solid market pricing and supported by well-designed salary structures that work for our organization. They also made sure our employees understood the changes through clear, thoughtful communications. The entire process was smooth, and the results spoke for themselves."
★★★★★ ConsultingCompensation Resource for a Fast Moving Time“David Turetsky (HR Data Labs) took the time to truly understand our needs before diving in, building a customized project plan that kept us aligned every step of the way. Their work across market pricing, salary structures, and job evaluation gave us a clear, defensible framework for how we pay and value our people. The recommendations they delivered were practical, well-supported, and built to last beyond the engagement. We came away with the tools and knowledge to sustain the work on our own."
★★★★★ ConsultingSpringboard to greater things“David Turetsky (HR Data Labs) helped us build a compensation program we can stand behind, starting with a clear compensation philosophy and grounding everything in solid market pricing. The compensation program design they delivered gave us a structured, consistent approach to how we pay and value our people. We finally have a framework that reflects who we are and where we are headed.
Because of your help we were able roll out our first-ever company wide performance management review process and annual compensation event. This was really some foundational work that was a springboard for much greater things for WM."
★★★★★ ConsultingExecutive Compensation Expertise Appreciated"Your Executive Compensation study was very helpful — it gave the Board a perspective that had been lacking in two previous attempts with other firms to truly understand where we stood in comparison with similar organizations.
Your work on a sensitive underpayment issue was nothing short of a lifesaver. You understood that we were looking for objective advice on whether there had been inadvertent, systematic underpayment, and your conclusion — delivered in a 20-minute Board presentation — carried the day, including convincing board members who had initially thought there might be merit to the claim.
I would highly recommend Angie as an Executive Compensation consultant. She was thoughtful, courteous, studious of the facts, logical, and empathetic to our situation. Not much more we could ask for!"
★★★★★ ConsultingCompensation Foundation Project“David Turetsky (HR Data Labs) brought rigor and clarity to our compensation program through thorough market pricing and a salary structure design that truly fits our organization. Their work gave us a fair, competitive framework we can confidently stand behind. We now have a foundation that supports both our team and our mission."
Client Outcomes
A sample of what our engagements have delivered, for organizations like yours.
Founder & Managing Consultant · Host, HR Data Labs Podcast
David Turetsky built HR Data Labs from a singular insight: that most organizations are making their most important people decisions with incomplete, misunderstood, or absent data.
After decades at ADP DataCloud, where he pioneered people analytics at scale, David assembled a consulting team with roots in Watson-Wyatt, Towers Perrin, and the largest HR technology companies in the world. The result: compensation expertise Fortune 500 companies take for granted, now accessible to the organizations that need it most.
The podcast, the graphic novels, the software, every piece of HR Data Labs exists to close the gap between where organizations are and where they need to be.
Ready to Transform?
A pay gap you can't explain. A leadership seat that's been empty too long. A salary structure held together with duct tape. Bring us the real problem, not the polished version, and we'll tell you exactly what we see, whether that means a compensation project, an executive search, or just a second opinion.
