Merryman partners with clients to provide compensation expertise including total compensation measurement studies where her expertise ranges from creating a compensation philosophy to market review, analysis, and recommendations. She has worked with public, private, government, tribal, and nonprofit entities in a variety of industries including aerospace/engineering, banking/finance, healthcare (including FQHCs), insurance/workers’ compensation, manufacturing, technology, and utilities.
Throughout Merryman’s career, she has managed compensation plans for executives and boards of directors, coordinated the preparation of CD&As for proxy statements, and managed deferral communications and enrollment. She has prepared comprehensive market data, analysis, and comparison for executive and mid-level employees, performed targeted peer group proxy studies, and provided board of directors’ market data and best practices, compensation review, and recommendations. Merryman began her career in various trust and investment roles at a Fortune 500 bank before she transitioned into compensation work.