Paul A. Munoz,Ph.D. | Fred Klein | Michael A.Pelle | Barbara Stahl,PHR | Ted Turnasella

Ted Turnasella has over 25 years of professional compensation experience spanning many industries including newspaper publishing, healthcare, manufacturing, non-profit, travel and retail sales. 

Mr. Turnasella’s primary focus is the design and implementation of variable and base pay plans tied into specific business objectives and aligned with the pay expectations of employees. 

His prior experience includes:

• Designing and implementing base pay administration programs
• Executive compensation programs
• Strategic sales compensation programs
• Equity-based compensation plans for executives and non-executives
• Analytical surveys of competitive compensation levels for benchmark jobs from executive to non-exempt positions.
• Design and implementation of employee attitude surveys

His individual accomplishments include:

• Re-designing the sales compensation plans for a major daily newspaper.
• Designing and implementing base pay administration programs based on market data and management’s pay philosophy into many organizations.
• Restructuring a defunct stock option program for a large educational service organization.
• Introducing a productivity bonus plan into the production area of a commercial bakery.
• Designing and implementing a skill-based pay plan for a power generating plant.
• Designing and proposing executive compensation plans for a large cosmetics company.

Mr. Turnasella is an adjunct professor at the State University of New York/Stony Brook, St. Joseph’s College and New York Institute of Technology and has guest lectured at other local colleges.  He has spoken on pay issues on national and local television and at the national conference level.  Since 1984, he has published numerous articles in various trade and professional journals focusing on the communication aspects of pay.  His educational background comprises a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and an MS degree in Labor and Industrial Relations.  He is a member of WorldatWork and The Consultant’s Forum of the Society for Human Resource Management.