For retail and commercial businesses
Know the going rate before your people do.
Already used by commercial businesses across the islands.Retail and commercial businesses hire in a market shaped by finance-sector pay. PayPulse shows you where your roles really sit in Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, anonymously aggregated from local employers.
The problem
Hiring in the shadow of the finance sector.
Finance sets the going rate
Store, office and finance roles in commercial businesses are all priced against a finance-led island market. Without evidence, you either overpay or lose people.
Your people compare notes
Staff move between shops, offices and warehouses across a small island. When the going rate moves, they usually hear about it before you do.
Generic data does not fit
UK surveys and recruiter guides rarely describe island commercial roles. You need the local shape.
In the product
Every role, placed in the island market.
ONE ROLE · STORE MANAGER
Where this role sits in the market
P = PERCENTILE OF MARKET PAY
COMPANY-WIDE · PAY BY LEVEL
Your whole organisation against the market, level by level
Level 3: Company median £31,000, Market median £36,500 (Company median is £5,500 below Market median). Level 6: Company median £54,500, Market median £49,000 (Company median is £5,500 above Market median). Level 9: Company median £74,000, Market median £81,500 (Company median is £7,500 below Market median).
Illustrative figures. The left chart is a single role; the right chart is your whole organisation across every role. Your view is built from the anonymised island pool.
How PayPulse helps
The local market, on your terms.
Filter the market to your industry
Every dashboard filters by industry, so you can compare against retail and wholesale, construction and property or professional services employers where the pool is deep enough, or against the whole island market when you want the wider view.
AI matching on your job descriptions
Paste a job description and the AI leveller places the role on the PayPulse framework, so every comparison is like for like rather than whatever shares the title.
Compensation Competitiveness Index
One score that says where your pay sits against the market, where 100 is the market median, broken down by level and job family.
Benefits and bonuses in the same view
Switch the comparison between base salary, base plus benefits, and total compensation, so the comparison covers what people actually take home.
Roles we benchmark
From the shop floor to the finance team.
The PayPulse framework covers the customer-facing and operational families commercial businesses run on, alongside the corporate roles behind them.
- Retail
- Customer service
- Sales and account management
- Logistics and supply chain
- Transport operations and drivers
- Facilities management
- Trade and technical
- Office support services
- Human resources
- Marketing
- Financial and management accounting
Questions
Asked before every demo.
- Can we compare only against businesses like ours?
Yes. Every dashboard filters by industry, including retail and wholesale, construction and property, and professional services. To protect anonymity, a result only shows when enough organisations and records sit behind it, so a very narrow filter can fall back to the wider island market until the pool is deep enough.
- Will other organisations see our salary data?
No. Contributions are anonymised and aggregated. You see the shape of the market, never an individual salary or an identifiable organisation, and no result is shown unless several other employers sit behind it.
- Does PayPulse tell us what to pay?
No, and it should not. PayPulse shows you where the market sits for a role and level. Where you position pay against that evidence stays your decision.
- Which markets do you cover?
Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, each benchmarked as its own market and refreshed periodically as new data reaches the pool.
See the commercial market on your own roles.
Book a 30-minute demo and we will show you the market on your own roles.
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