By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 A Workday HCM consultant job description should name the tenant size, the live modules, which Workday Pro certification area the work falls in, and the release cycle the hire inherits. Base bands run $100,000 to $175,000 in 2026 depending on where the seat lands. There is a … 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 Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Workday HCM consultants earn $104,000 to $154,000 on average in 2026 depending on which tracker you read, and the module they own moves pay further than seniority does. Payroll and Advanced Compensation specialists clear $170,000. In July 2025 Workday did something it had declined to do for … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 To hire a Workday HCM consultant in 2026, scope the req by module rather than by title, because Core HCM, Absence, Time Tracking, Benefits, Advanced Compensation, and Recruiting each draws from a different pool at a different price. The title tells you almost nothing about who can … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 An employment background check is a third-party report on a candidate’s criminal, employment, education, and sometimes credit history, governed federally by the FCRA and Title VII and further restricted by fair-chance laws in fifteen states. The report itself is rarely the problem. The paperwork around it is. … Read more
Managing employee leave may seem straightforward, but as organizations grow, manual processes often become difficult to maintain. What starts as a simple spreadsheet or email approval system can quickly turn into a time-consuming task that creates confusion, payroll errors, and scheduling conflicts. To address these challenges, many businesses are adopting Leave Management Software that automates … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Boomerang employees are workers who leave a company and later return, and by March 2025 they made up 35 percent of all new hires in ADP’s payroll data, the highest share since 2018. Most articles on the subject treat that as a feel-good story about loyalty. It … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 A U.S. tech recruiter earns a median base near $90,000 in 2026, with most in-house offers landing between $70,000 and $130,000, while agency recruiters run lower bases plus commission and big-tech recruiters clear $200,000 total. That spread is not sloppy data. It is three completely different pay … Read more
On July 1, 2026, roughly 108,000 California state workers returned to the office four days a week under Governor Newsom’s mandate. For private employers hiring in the same cities, that one policy just reopened the competition for people who want flexibility. We staff for a living. So when the single largest employer in the state … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 In 2026, U.S. Workday consultants earn a median base near $115,000, with most offers landing between $95,000 and $165,000, and senior functional and integration specialists who have carried a live deployment clearing $175,000 and up. One title, several jobs that barely resemble each other. The module bends … Read more
