Cait Carney has more than 10 years of human resources experience, with deep expertise in compensation and job design, helping organizations build fair, market-competitive pay programs grounded in data. She currently serves as Principal Compensation Analyst at George Mason University, where she leads advanced compensation analysis, modeling, and program design and contributes to the modernization of the university's market-based compensation framework. Prior to joining George Mason, Cait spent more than five years at Delta Dental as Senior Compensation Business Partner and Team Lead, where she oversaw job architecture, pay compliance and pay equity analysis, HRIS compensation enhancements, and annual rewards processes across union and non-union environments. Earlier in her career, she held compensation roles at Cortland and U.S. Xpress, building experience in salary surveys, job evaluation, market pricing, and workforce planning.

Cait earned a BS in Psychology and Family & Child Sciences from Florida State University and an MS in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She serves as Vice President of Programming for the Atlanta Area Compensation Association (AACA) and is a member of WorldatWork and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).