The Pay Intelligence Platform
for HR Teams

Compensation IQ is a pay intelligence platform built for People teams. We give HR teams the data, tools and confidence to make fair pay decisions - from benchmarking salaries against real market data, to building a structured job framework, to meeting EU Pay Transparency Directive requirements. Everything sits in one platform, with transparent pricing and no feature paywalls.

The platform has three products. Job Architecture and Levelling is free for all customers - upload your org data, map roles to 25+ job families and 20+ external frameworks including Mercer, Korn Ferry and WTW, and export results in minutes. Salary Benchmarking gives you real-time, multi-source pay data across 500k+ job titles and 100+ countries, with built-in salary band building and pay analytics. EU Pay Transparency is our compliance product - gap analysis, automated Article 7 and 9 reporting, and ongoing monitoring, built for the EU Pay Transparency Directive. All three products share the same underlying job architecture layer.

Pricing is banded by your employee headcount and billed annually in GBP. Global Salary Benchmarking is £4,100 per year for organisations with 100 to 200 employees.

We have headcount bands running from 0 to 100 all the way up to 5,000+ employees. Job Architecture and Levelling is free for every customer. Request a quote for pricing tailored to your team size.

Job Architecture and Levelling is a free tool that helps you build and maintain a structured job framework for your organisation. You upload your org data, and the platform maps every role to one of 25+ job families, assigns levels automatically, and scores each match for confidence. You can translate your framework to 20+ external benchmarking standards including Mercer, Korn Ferry and Willis Towers Watson, and export results in minutes. It is free forever, with no time limit, and forms the foundation for both Salary Benchmarking and EU Pay Transparency reporting.

Yes. Job Architecture and Levelling is free for every customer with no time limit. You can upload your org data, run levelling, map to 20+ external frameworks including Mercer, Korn Ferry and WTW, score every match for confidence and export your results.

Use it standalone or as the foundation for Salary Benchmarking and EU Pay reporting.

No. Global benchmarking is included as standard with Salary Benchmarking. There is no per-country charge and no upgrade required to benchmark roles in additional markets.

This is a deliberate difference from traditional salary survey providers and from newer platforms that charge per country or per region.

Salary benchmarking is the process of comparing your roles and pay against external market data, so you can decide what a role should be paid based on what it's actually worth in the current market. Without it, HR teams are guessing - and overpaying or underpaying both come with real costs.

Overpaying by just 1% across 200 employees is roughly £100k in unnecessary spend. Underpaying drives attrition: research consistently shows that employees who feel underpaid are significantly more likely to be actively job hunting. Good benchmarking pays for itself many times over.

Four sources, fused into one platform. Verified salary surveys from trusted partners give you structured, validated compensation data. Live job postings, scraped globally in real-time, show you what companies are offering right now. Anonymous self-reported data from verified professionals adds breadth across roles and geographies that surveys miss. Live customer benchmarks come from real-time HRIS data across 50+ connected systems - actual pay, not estimates.

Across all four sources we cover 5m+ companies and 100+ countries. You see the source on every benchmark, so you can trust the answer.

Compensation IQ connects to your HRIS - or accepts a secure CSV upload - and auto-categorises your pay components using a smart classification engine. It calculates both adjusted and unadjusted gender pay gaps, flags any gaps approaching the 5% threshold that triggers a mandatory joint assessment, and generates all seven metrics required under Article 9 in one click. When employees submit pay information requests under Article 7, the platform auto-generates the required response documents. The result is defensible, documented compliance with a full audit trail - not a one-off spreadsheet exercise.

Most organisations reach compliance in around six weeks. Data integration takes one to two weeks - around 30 minutes of IT time if you connect via HRIS. Pay component categorisation and review takes approximately one week. Automated report generation takes under three minutes once your data is in order. Ongoing monitoring then runs continuously, alerting you when gaps approach the 5% threshold.