HUMAN RESOURCES

The statement details your annual earnings and your employee benefits, such as tuition and health insurance, to display your total compensation package.

Only you can see your Total Compensation Statement via the myHR Self Service portal.

Northwestern partnered with Mercer Consulting, a firm that has administered numerous total compensation statements for higher education. The process took over 12 months that involved coordinating data feeds from all our vendor partners and NUIT, creating a wireframe, and building the online platform. Quality Assurance testing took place, as did end user testing by a Northwestern cross-functional group. All the data reflected in your statement has been reviewed and validated by HR and IT professionals. 

Total Compensation Statements are available only to Northwestern faculty and staff in a regular appointment with an FTE of 0.50 or greater.

Due to the complicated appointment structure and unique benefit packages, there are a few groups of employees who cannot be provided a Total Compensation Statement.  These include Postdoctoral Fellows, Feinberg faculty eligible for both University and hospital medical insurance, and employees on the Qatar campus. It was never the intention to purposely exclude these groups, but the nature of these appointments and employment types could not be incorporated into the statement at this time.

For new hires, it can take up to 30 days before the statement is generated.

The title displayed on the Total Compensation Statement is what is currently flagged as your primary role in myHR. If you have any questions, please contact your supervisor or askHR at 847-491-4700 or askHR@northwestern.edu.

The online Total Compensation Statement is updated weekly. The statement pulls data from multiple systems, which could cause certain sections to have more recent data than others. 

This statement reflects only your current medical plan in which you are enrolled. If you recently added a dependent, it can take up to 30 days before the statement is updated.

This statement includes all wages from any current job you have at Northwestern. It does not include any future, unpaid bonuses, commissions, or additional payments.

For faculty, compensation for administrative commitments and overload assignments may be reflected as base pay if the payment is typically included in your regular monthly paycheck. If the administrative commitment is paid as lump sums or additional payments, it will be included in this total after they have been paid. Contact your dean’s office/supervisor for questions about your individual compensation structure.

Vacation, holiday, personal floating holiday, and incidental sick time is shown for Library faculty who accrue time off in Workforce Solutions (WFS).  Other faculty who may have time off that is managed by their departments should speak to their supervisor or department administrator for this information.