The Institute for Compensation Studies is an interdisciplinary center that researches, teaches and communicates about monetary and non-monetary rewards from work. We are a joint unit of the ILR School and the SC Johnson College of Business.  There are seven staff members connected to ICS in a full- or part-time capacity, a network of external affiliates, and an associated student club. 

The Institute for Compensation Studies is partnering with the CAROW Policy Lab and the Buffalo Co-Lab to study wages and working conditions in the last-mile delivery industry. We are studying how different employers organize the work and compensate the workers. We will be surveying the literature, designing a survey and gathering survey data in the summer and a summer research assistant who will help with this work.