For People teams
Run your pay review without the spreadsheet chaos.
Every pay review starts the same way: a stale survey, a wall of spreadsheets, and a deadline. PayPulse gives you the live market context for every role and level, so the cycle starts from evidence, not guesswork.
MARKET CONTEXT
Summary
£12.4m
Your annual pay bill
-£0.5m
£57,900
Avg total comp / employee
-£2,400
£60,300
Market median per employee
Cohort reference
-£2,400
Δ vs market
The gap above
COMPENSATION COMPETITIVENESS
You pay 96% of the market median, in line with the market
Value 96%. reference 100 (100% MARKET). bands: BEHIND, COMPETITIVE, PREMIUM.
Your overall Compensation Competitiveness Index is 96%, so your pay sits in line with the wider market. The full labour-cost comparison is shown below.
TYPICAL TOTAL COMPENSATION GAP
Your typical total compensation is £2,400 behind the market
: Company £57,900, Market £60,300 (Company is £2,400 below Market).
Your typical total compensation per employee, weighted by the distribution of employees across job levels, is £2,400 behind the market. This is the same metric the Compensation Competitiveness Index uses, so the figures stay internally consistent across the dashboard.
PAY BY LEVEL VS MARKET
Where your pay sits against the market, level by level
Level 3: Company median £32,500, Market median £34,800 (Company median is £2,300 below Market median). Level 4: Company median £43,100, Market median £42,900 (Company median is £200 above Market median). Level 5: Company median £51,800, Market median £55,600 (Company median is £3,800 below Market median). Level 6: Company median £72,400, Market median £71,000 (Company median is £1,400 above Market median).
The largest gap is at Level 5, where your median sits £3,800 behind the market median.
In the product
What does the work.
Compensation Competitiveness Index
One score that says where your pay sits against the market, on a scale where 100 is the market median. Behind, competitive or premium, per level and per job family.
By-level market comparison
Your median against the market median at every job level, with the gap quantified. See exactly which levels drive your pay bill away from the market.
Benefits and bonuses in the same view
Switch the comparison between base salary, base plus benefits, and total compensation. The review covers what people actually take home.
Board-ready exports
Export the full analysis as a deck-style PDF, one chart per slide, ready for the remuneration committee. Or take the raw numbers as CSV.
See it on your own roles.
Book a demo and we will walk you through the market, role by role.
See how a pay review works