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Before You Accept the Offer
Getting a job offer is exciting, especially when someone has been considering a change for a while. It can also make the decision feel simpler than it really is. One thing we see quite often is a candidate focusing immediately on salary. That makes sense. Compensation matters, and it should be reviewed carefully. But [...]
What a Small Companion Animal Sample Can Still Teach Employers
Small samples require discipline. Our 2026 Animal Health & Nutrition Technical Professional Salary Survey included eight respondents whose primary species focus was Equine, Pet, or Companion Animal within Technical/Sales Support. Four were solo contributors, and four had management responsibility. Eight professionals cannot define compensation across the Companion Animal market. The group can still help [...]
What Management Responsibility Does to Dairy Compensation
Dairy compensation gets much harder to interpret once management responsibility enters the picture. A title can tell us that someone is a manager. It does not tell us how large the team is, which decisions the person owns, how much customer responsibility the role carries, or how much pressure comes with keeping a technical [...]
Have You Built the Team You’ll Be Proud of in 2027?
By the early fourth quarter, most executives and managers have a fairly good idea of how the year will end. If your fiscal year closes on December 31, you probably know now whether your team will hit its 2026 goals. You know where performance has been strong, where things have fallen short, and which [...]
What the 2026 Swine Live Production Salary Survey Says About Pork Industry Talent
Each year, we spend a lot of time talking with people working throughout pork production. Compensation is always part of those conversations, but salary alone does not tell the whole story. Our 2026 Swine Live Production Salary Survey received 136 responses. The results were reviewed before analysis, with incomplete or unreliable responses excluded from [...]
Why R&D Compensation Is So Hard to Benchmark?
R&D and Product Development positions can look similar on paper and operate very differently inside the company. Our 2026 Animal Health & Nutrition Technical Professional Salary Survey included 10 respondents working in research, product development, R&D, and related technical development functions. They came from Animal Health and Nutrition suppliers, genetics and breeding companies, [...]
