For the C-suite
Know exactly where your organisation sits.
You can defend any pay decision if you can see the whole market. PayPulse turns the pool into a single picture: where you pay, where the market pays, and which families and levels carry the difference.
MARKET CONTEXT
Summary
13.8%
Your share
£12.4m
Your labour cost
£89.9m
Cohort pay bill
1,470
Cohort employees
SHARE OF COHORT
You account for 13.8% of the cohort labour cost
Value 13.8%. reference 100 (100% COHORT). bands: NICHE, ESTABLISHED, ANCHOR EMPLOYER.
13.8% of every £1 spent on base salary across the orgs in the latest benchmark; £12.4m of £89.9m. That puts you at an established presence in the cohort.
EXPECTED VS ACTUAL SHARE
Your pay share is 0.8pp lower than your headcount predicts
: Labour-cost share 13.8%, Headcount share 14.6% (Labour-cost share is 0.8% below Headcount share).
14.6% of cohort headcount · 13.8% of cohort labour cost. You weigh lighter per head than your workforce predicts: a lean-pay position.
MARKET POSITIONING · LEVEL × FAMILY
Where you punch above (and below) your market weight
Positioning quadrant — 6 cells: 6 plottable cells. Client services · Level 3: over-weight (labour-cost share 5.6% exceeds headcount share 4.8%), exposure £2.4m. Compliance · Level 4: over-weight (labour-cost share 5.3% exceeds headcount share 3.2%), exposure £3.1m. Operations · Level 3: under-weight (labour-cost share 3.4% below headcount share 5.2%), exposure £1.8m. Finance · Level 4: over-weight (labour-cost share 3.0% exceeds headcount share 2.6%), exposure £1.9m. Operations · Level 2: under-weight (labour-cost share 2.9% below headcount share 3.6%), exposure £1.2m. Technology · Level 5: over-weight (labour-cost share 2.6% exceeds headcount share 1.4%), exposure £1.6m. 3 cells suppressed for small cohort.
Most over-weight at Compliance · Level 4 (+2.1pp); most under-weight at Operations · Level 3 (-1.8pp). 3 cells suppressed for small cohort.
In the product
What does the work.
Market positioning quadrant
Every job family plotted by market share and pay competitiveness. One chart that shows the board where you lead, where you lag, and where the risk is.
Share of market
Your share of the market pay bill against what your headcount predicts. Are you buying talent above your weight, or below it?
Pay bill composition
How your total pay bill splits across levels and families, against the market shape. The structural view behind the headline number.
Trend tracking
Positions move as the pool refreshes. Snapshots build a history, so the story you tell the board this quarter connects to the last one.
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