Tom Kenaley
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 An EDI analyst job description should name your ERP, your translator platform, the X12 or EDIFACT version your partners require, and the trading partners the hire inherits. Base bands run $60,000 to $175,000 in 2026, and where you land in that spread is decided by scope, not … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 Vetting a staffing agency comes down to four things a firm either can or cannot produce on request, a named recruiter, a 12-month retention rate, worker classification paperwork, and a written conversion fee schedule. Everything a sales team brings to the first meeting is optional. Those four … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President & Senior Partner, KORE1 Workday HCM consultant interview questions in 2026 should test staffing-model judgment, effective-dated data corrections, security-group reasoning, and one real open-enrollment or payroll failure, not module definitions any candidate can recite. The training-site question banks all test recall. Recall is the cheapest part of this hire. What you … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 A Chief Revenue Officer costs $313,000 to $374,000 in base salary across the middle of the U.S. market, on-target earnings usually land near double the base, and most searches run 8 to 14 weeks. None of that is the decision that determines whether the hire works. That … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 Embedded systems engineer pay in 2026 lands between $91,000 and $161,000 across the major salary sources. Change the question to who employs them and the same title spans $106,000 to $331,000. That second spread decides whether your search closes. On a single afternoon in August 2026 I … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 Hiring a Sage Intacct consultant in 2026 costs $75 to $135 an hour on contract, or $110,000 to $170,000 base for a direct hire. Settle whether you’re buying a partner firm or a person for a seat before you write a word of the req. Those are … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 AWS solutions architects average $145,725 to $176,595 in 2026 depending on which aggregator you trust, while architects employed by AWS itself clear a $262,000 median in total compensation. Both figures are accurate. They describe two different jobs wearing the same title. Last spring I had two AWS … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 The generative AI engineer career path runs from associate to staff in roughly six to ten years, but the level you hold is set by what you can prove works, not by years served. Base pay spans $105,000 at entry to $330,000 and up at principal. The … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 ERP projects fail because the seats that matter go unfilled, not because the software is wrong. Six staffing gaps cause most of it, and every one of them is visible before kickoff if you know where to look. Somebody usually invites me to the post-mortem. The slide … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 Hiring a C-suite executive in 2026 starts by naming which seat you need and what it owns, budgeting $250,000 to $900,000 in total pay depending on the role, then giving the search 90 to 150 days. Most companies get the last part right and the first part … Read more
