A headcount model that ties out

Before

Long-range plans treated people as a single line. Hiring pace, payroll taxes and bonus structures were estimated in different places by different people, and they rarely matched when you added them up.

What I built

One driver-based model that connects all of it. Hiring pace, base pay, payroll load and bonus targets feed straight into quarterly cost, so a leader can try a hiring plan and see what it does to the full year right away.

What happened

It became the basis for long-range workforce planning across a region of more than 1,000 people.