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Andy Sims

Veteran Compensation Strategist at SalaryCube

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About Andy Sims

Andy Sims is a veteran compensation strategist at SalaryCube, a cloud-based salary benchmarking platform launched in 2015 that now analyzes more than 20 million data points across 16,000 job titles. Over a 25-year career he has helped hundreds of public-, private- and nonprofit-sector employers design fair, competitive, and equitable pay programs.

Before SalaryCube, Andy led compensation and total-rewards teams at mid-market and Fortune 500 organizations, where he built market-pricing models, geographic differentials, and executive incentive plans covering workforces in 40+ countries. Today he oversees SalaryCube's data science roadmap and authors widely cited articles such as "Average CEO Salary by Company Size." His research is frequently quoted by industry analysts, business media, and consulting firms looking for up-to-date pay insights.

Under Andy's leadership SalaryCube has been profiled by startup-data platform Tracxn as a top HR-tech competitor and referenced by publications discussing executive pay trends, fractional staffing, and CFO compensation. Andy's current focus areas include AI-driven pay-equity diagnostics, hybrid-job pricing, and practical strategies HR teams can use to counter wage-compression and skills-based hiring pressures.

When he's not crunching comp data, Andy mentors early-career HR analysts, plays jazz guitar, and explores California's northern coast.

Articles by Andy Sims

How to Optimize Your Compensation System: An Operational Guide for HR Teams

How to Optimize Your Compensation System: An Operational Guide for HR Teams

A compensation system is the integrated set of philosophy, pay structures, market data, governance processes, and tools that determines how your organization prices jobs and pays people. This operational guide covers how to diagnose system weaknesses and optimize every lever—from data freshness to range structure to governance cadence.