Module 7: Pay Reviews
Benefits Designer
If you cannot compete on salary alone, the benefits you offer around pay become the difference between keeping great educators and losing them to the next service. Work through six categories of benefits, pick what you want to offer, set your budget, and AI drafts a benefits package summary for your team with an estimated cost and what to say in recruitment.
Your service
A few anchor details. These shape what AI recommends.
Total educators including casuals. Used for rough costing.
If you are at the lower end, benefits do more of the heavy lifting to attract and keep educators.
The 2-3 things that already make your service a good place to work, in your words. The package is a statement of those things, not a list of random perks.
Your brand and logo
Optional. Upload your logo and pick a brand colour so the document reflects your service identity.
Pick the benefits you want to offer
Six categories. Cost tags are indicative only. Tick anything you already offer (so the package reflects reality) or anything you are willing to offer.
0 benefits selected
Flexibility Usually low cost
Often the most valued category by educators. Flexibility costs the service very little, but it changes how educators experience the role.
Leave Low to medium
Extra leave beyond the National Employment Standards. Each day of extra leave is a day of paid labour cost, but these are often the headline benefits educators talk about.
Development Medium
Often the reason educators stay. Early education is a career, and the services that invest in development hold onto their people.
Financial Medium to high
Benefits with a clear dollar value. Always quantify these clearly for educators so the number lands.
Health and wellbeing Low to medium
The service is saying it takes educator wellbeing seriously, not just pays lip service to it. Wellbeing benefits work when they are real and used, not when they are listed but ignored.
Recognition and career Low cost
These cost little to run but do a lot of the work of making someone feel seen in their role.
Designing your benefits package. This takes about 25 seconds.