HOWARD RISHER is senior fellow and adjunct professor of human resource management in the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has twenty-five years of experience in the areas of workforce management, compensation system design, and employee research. He served as project director for the study that resulted in federal pay reform and the enactment of the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act (FEPCA) in 1990. A well-known compensation consultant to public agencies at the federal, state, and local level, Risher has also served as a consultant to major corporations, hospitals, and universities. Risher is a member of several professional associations and is an instructor for certification in compensation management. He is also a member of the advisory board for Compensation and Benefits Review.

CHARLES H. FAY is director of the graduate program in human resource management and associate professor of human resource management at Rutgers University. He is also editor of Human Resource Planning and serves on the board and the research committee of the Human Resource Planning Society. In addition, he engages in research and consulting focused on compensation, systems, performance management, performance appraisal, and human resource support systems.Fay served as chair of the Research Committee of the American Compensation Association. He is also a former member of the Federal Salary Council, a presidential council that advises the Federal Pay Agent on salary issues concerning white-collar employees.