Total Compensation Cost

operationalpure operational · compensation · currency · organization

The sum of all compensation spend for the organization over a period.

How it’s computed

Formula

Measurement model

operational (a formula over systems data) — not a reflective survey scale; “reliability” here means data quality, not internal consistency

What it operationalizes

This is a pure operational metric — it has no single latent construct behind it; it stands as its own node, connected to programs and outcomes rather than to a psychometric scale.

Programmatic access: /api/v1/metrics/metric.total_compensation_cost.