Group Benefits & Pensions
Design, broker placement, and ongoing administration for Alberta organizations of two employees or more.
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Group benefits, HR consulting, workplace investigations, EAP, and salary surveys. Family-owned, Calgary-based, working with municipalities, non-profits, and small to mid-size businesses.
We are a boutique HR and benefits consulting firm helping organizations navigate group benefits, workplace investigations, HR policy, and compensation with senior-level attention since 1981. From first call to final deliverable, the person who knows your file is the person doing the work.
We stay deliberately small so every file runs through a senior consultant. No junior handoffs, no account managers reading from a script. The person who picks up the phone knows your file.
Forty-five years inside municipalities, non-profits, First Nations governments, and family-owned businesses. We know the local insurers, the regulators, and the unspoken rules that take others years to learn.
We build plans your team will actually use. Plain language, knowledge transfer at every step, and hands-on implementation support. No 200-page reports that sit on a shelf. Clients who stay for 20+ years are the proof.
Group benefits, HR, EAP, workplace investigations, compensation surveys, and personal financial planning. Delivered by the same people who answer the phone.
Design, broker placement, and ongoing administration for Alberta organizations of two employees or more.
Learn more →Policy, handbooks, compensation, performance management, and employment-standards compliance.
Learn more →Confidential, neutral, third-party investigations for harassment, misconduct, and sensitive terminations.
Learn more →Mental health, counselling, and wellness programs tied to staff retention and reduced absenteeism.
Learn more →Custom benchmarking for non-profits, municipalities, and mid-market organizations.
Learn more →Tax-effective defined-benefit pensions for incorporated business owners and senior executives in Canada.
Learn more →Municipalities. Non-profits and faith-based organizations. Small and mid-size businesses. First Nations and Indigenous organizations across Western Canada who need HR support that actually fits how they operate. Not a boilerplate policy handed over by someone who's never been in the room.
Forty-five years working with the organizations that don't fit a corporate HR template. That's the whole point.
Group benefits don't have to mean cookie-cutter packages or annual sticker shock. We design plans around your workforce, place them with the right carrier, and stay on the file year after year.
We map your headcount, claims history, and budget to a plan that actually fits, then run a competitive RFP across the Canadian carrier market.
Tax-effective defined-benefit pensions for incorporated owners and executives over 40. We model the trade-offs alongside your accountant.
Flexible top-up coverage for SMBs and non-profits — predictable cost, broader employee choice, no claims-experience surprises.
Claims analysis, carrier negotiation, and plan adjustments built into the relationship — not billed as a separate project each year.
Book a Strategy Session → Mid-size organizations need the kind of HR depth a single in-house generalist can't cover. We fill the gaps — policy, comp, performance, compliance — with senior consultants you can call when something lands on your desk.
Plain-language employee handbooks and HR policies built around the employment standards that apply to you and your organization's actual culture.
Custom salary surveys against your peer set so pay decisions are defensible to your board, your candidates, and your tenured staff.
Frameworks your managers will actually use — annual reviews, mid-cycle check-ins, and documentation that holds up under scrutiny.
Periodic audits of your hiring, classification, overtime, and termination practices against current provincial and federal legislation.
Book a Strategy Session → When something difficult happens, you need someone outside the organization who can run a defensible process and bring people back to a workable place. That's what we do.
Neutral, structured fact-finding for harassment, misconduct, and grievance complaints. Written findings that hold up in legal review.
Coaching and on-site support for executive exits, restructures, and conduct-based terminations where the process matters as much as the outcome.
Mental health, counselling, and wellness benefits tied to your organization's absenteeism and retention reality.
When the situation is acute, we're on the phone within a business day and on-site within the week.
Book a Strategy Session → We were very pleased with the work done by Chris and his team, both in terms of process and results, and now have a solid salary/wage system that provides appropriate and competitive remuneration to our staff.
Chris Hylton founded CG Hylton in 1981. Forty-five years later, we remain deliberately small. The clients we take on, we keep — and some of those relationships have lasted longer than most consulting firms have been in business.
We work with municipalities, non-profits, small and mid-size businesses, First Nations governments, and faith-based organizations. The thread connecting them is that none of them fit a corporate HR template. That's the whole point.
Chris remains hands-on with every client engagement.
Meet the team →Not sure where to start? Book a free 20-minute call and let's figure out whether Hylton is the right fit.
Book a free review →A 20-minute conversation about whatever you are working through: group benefits, an HR policy question, compensation, or something you have not quite named yet. We tell you where the gaps are and whether it makes sense to do anything about them. No obligation, no sales pitch, no proposal unless you ask for one.
It depends on the service. Group benefits and pensions are Alberta-only, because that is where we are licensed to place them. HR consulting, workplace investigations, and compensation work travel further: we support organizations across Western Canada, including one of our largest First Nations clients in British Columbia.
Anywhere from two employees up to about 500. Small teams are often where we add the most value, because there is usually no HR function at all. Above 500 you generally need an in-house team, though we do support larger organizations on specialized projects.
Initial response within 24 hours, scoping conversation within 48. Workplace investigations are time-sensitive — when they're not handled quickly and confidentially, they get worse. We take them seriously.
Both. Chris Hylton also provides personal insurance, investment, estate planning, and Individual Pension Plan (IPP) advice to clients he's built relationships with over the years. That side of the practice is relationship-based — we don't actively prospect for individual clients.
A Health Spending Account is a tax-effective way for employers to fund health and dental expenses for employees without traditional plan limits. It can complement or replace a group plan, and works particularly well for small businesses and non-profits with variable benefit needs.
