A Deep Dive into Payroll Analytics and Pay Equity (1.2 CPE)

This is an archived session with Thomas Steeves – Senior Analytics Manager, from the Auditopia 2026 ACL Conference.

This session goes beyond standard payroll testing to explore how advanced analytics can surface meaningful insights about compensation fairness and organizational patterns.

Drawing on a recent payroll engagement, the session covers the results of traditional payroll analysis as a foundation, then moves into more advanced territory with a pay equity examination that identifies patterns by gender and age. The session concludes with key takeaways focused on the business implications of the findings and the actionable recommendations that followed. This is a practical session for practitioners who want to expand their payroll analytics beyond the basics and understand how equity-focused analysis can add real value to an engagement.

Participants will learn how to:

• • Apply advanced payroll analytics techniques to identify compensation patterns beyond standard compliance testing.

• • Interpret pay equity findings across gender and age dimensions within the context of a real client engagement.

• • Translate analytical results into actionable recommendations that address the business implications of pay equity findings.

Field of Study: Computer Software & Applications (1.2 CPE)   ~   Program Knowledge: Intermediate  ~ Duration: 60 min