Cabot Dow Associates is an independently owned human resources consulting firm, specializing in public sector and private sector compensation, job classification, collective bargaining and human resource management issues. CDA is also poised to address the unique talent acquisition needs of public sector agencies in Washington. This involves a comprehensive range of professional services tailored to meet the executive recruitment needs of the customer agency.
Each consultant has extensive experience in public and private sector management and, specifically, recruitment, compensation, negotiations, mediation, interest arbitration of police and fire contract disputes and administration of collective bargaining agreements. Each has a broad understanding of what it takes to be competitive, compensation plans, workload analysis, dispute resolution and expertise in how private and public agencies operate. This includes the structure of governmental and private organizations, the role of elected officials, private boards and public commissions in setting labor policy and the need to be responsive to customers in providing services.
The CDA team is available in-person or virtually for meetings with and on behalf of clients.
Recent consulting projects include:
- Compensation studies (selection of comparators, salary and total compensation comparisons)
- Collective bargaining (negotiations, mediation, interest arbitration)
- Employee selection (executive recruitment, retention, promotions, background checks)
- Management proposals on selected subjects (drafting contract language)
- Labor relations and Personnel policies (creation and administration)