Kate talks to Neily Jennings of AORTA Cooperative about the organization's process of designing a transparent, equitable, and just compensation framework for their team. They discuss the history of AORTA’s compensation experiments and how they have worked to embed values of equity and justice into their pay structures. Neily also offers practical advice for businesses and organizations seeking to approach pay structures with more transparency and values alignment.

About Neily Jennings & AORTA

Neily Jennings manages finance and operations at AORTA Cooperative, a worker-owned co-op offering facilitation, consulting, coaching, and training to support organizations in practicing democracy and building strategies for liberation. With over a decade of experience, Neily has helped AORTA evolve its pay structure to align with its values, political analysis, and business growth. As a democratically run cooperative, AORTA's workers are also its owners, practicing collective decision-making. Neily's work reflects a deep commitment to equitable systems and transformative change.