Jada is a director at Baker Tilly, focused on providing compensation consulting to public sector clients nationwide. She has more than 10 years of combined experience in providing related human resources (HR) consulting services to public sector organizations, including executive recruitment and organizational management with her previous firm prior to its combination with Baker Tilly.
Jada leads the compensation consulting practice within Baker Tilly’s public sector advisory practice and has experience delivering a variety of services related to job classification, compensation, executive recruitment and organizational management to clients across the country.
Formerly, Jada served active duty as a public affairs specialist with the 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment in the United States Army and with the 136th Airlift Wing in the Texas Air National Guard, respectively.
- Expertise in public sector compensation: Provides strategic guidance to clients on legal compliance and competitiveness.
- Compliance reviews: Conducts comprehensive reviews of compensation plans and pay policies to ensure adherence to Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), pay equity and other state and local regulations.
- Market analysis: Utilizes industry best practices to conduct salary gap analysis through custom market surveys, assisting clients in defining their competitive labor market and desired market position.
- Job classification systems: Develops and implement job classification systems to ensure roles are accurately categorized based on responsibilities, skills, and qualifications. This helps maintain internal equity and supports effective talent management. Includes providing recommendations for title changes and updates to job documentation.
- Base pay structure development: Develops new base pay structures or revisions to existing structures to ensure competitiveness in attracting and retaining talent.
- Creative compensation solutions: Collaborates with clients to implement innovative classification and compensation plans, addressing pay equity and compression issues, and providing costing analysis for budgeting.
- Stakeholder collaboration: Works closely with HR teams, managers and executives to gather and incorporate input. Facilitate workshops and training sessions to communicate changes and gain buy-in.
- “Public sector work-from-home policies: For local governments, the time is now,” bakertilly.com, 2025
- “Compensation Trends for Entry Level HR.” North Texas Compensation Association Career Expo, 2023
- “Interview Do’s and Don’ts,” Texas Women’s Leadership Institute, March 2023
- “The strategies and challenges of managing an evolving workforce,” contributing author, bakertilly.com, 2022
- “Keys to conducting a successful market survey,” Indiana Water Environment Association Annual Conference, 2022
- “Managing an evolving workforce,” Crossroads of American Leadership Summit, 2022
- “Don’t leave! Keeping employees in a tight labor market,” IPMA-HR Central Region Conference, 2022
- “Balancing internal equity and market competitiveness in the public sector,” North Texas Compensation Association, Virtual Luncheon, 2022
- “Proactively gain buy-in for a classification and compensation study: Tips and ideas,” ElectriCities of North Carolina, Connection Summit, 2022
- “Your organization’s compensation philosophy: What is it, what should it contain, and why is it important?” Accelerated Indiana Municipalities Ideas Summit, 2021
- “Implementing a successful classification and compensation study,” Wisconsin GFOA Human Resources Conference, 2021
- “In a world competing for hard-to-find talent, Skill-based pay can be your secret weapon,” Illinois County/County Management Association Newsletter, 2021
- “Salary benchmarking: Selecting peer organizations for comparison,” bakertilly.com, 2021
- “Talent management in a post-pandemic world,” panelist, Resiliency on the Rise: Baker Tilly Public Sector Virtual Summit, 2021
- “Don’t be a (title) creep,” bakertilly.com, 2021
- “Keeping classification and compensation up-to-date during COVID-19,” CommuniTIES: A Baker Tilly public sector podcast, 2020
- “How to attract and retain talent in organizations,” panelist, University of Texas at Dallas, Public and Non-profit Management Program, 2020
- Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) – World at Work
- Certified Labor Relations Professional (CLRP) – National Public Employer Labor Relations Association (NPELRA)
