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Service two

Compensation benchmarking

What the role actually clears in each market, split by base and expected bonus, with sample size and confidence shown against every band.

Time to deliver
One week
Employers under coverage
22
Live vacancies indexed
1,457

What you receive

  • Base and expected total for the role at each level you hire at
  • The same bands for every market in scope, in local currency
  • Sample size and confidence label against every figure
  • A separate stated-pay view, drawn only from employers who publish
  • A short read on where your current offer sits against the market

How the work runs

  1. 01ScopeRole, levels and markets, plus the offer you want tested against them.
  2. 02ExtractBands pulled from the index, split into stated pay and estimated pay so the two are never mixed.
  3. 03ReviewThe desk checks anything that looks out of pattern before a number leaves the building.
  4. 04DeliveryThe benchmark, the method note, and a plain answer on whether your offer clears.

Evidence behind it

Stated pay where an employer publishes it, and a labelled band where it does not.

Where do the numbers come from?

Stated pay comes from employers who publish a range on their own hiring pages. Where nobody publishes, the band is estimated and labelled as such, with the sample size shown. The two are never blended silently.

Can you benchmark a role you have never indexed?

If the population is too thin to support a band, we say so rather than produce a number. You get the sample size and a confidence label on every figure, including the weak ones.

Hiring enquiry

Start a compensation benchmarking conversation

One form for every service. We reply within a working day with a first read on your market, before any commercial conversation.

The other two services

Market mappingA named map of everyone doing the work you are hiring for, by firm, desk, seniority and market, with movement over the last twelve months.Confidential searchA retained search run off the map: approach, screen, an evidence pack per candidate, and a clear read on who said no and why.
A quantitative trading floor at work

Hiring is a market read before it is a search

Every mandate starts from the same index the market reads, so the brief is argued from evidence rather than instinct.

Methodology

Figures are expressed as annual total compensation (base salary plus expected performance bonus) in the reference market's local currency, converted from a US dollar base. They describe typical market ranges rather than any individual offer, and exclude sign-on payments, deferred equity and carried interest. Portfolio-manager figures reflect formulaic profit-share arrangements and are therefore far more dispersed than any other role.

KnowQuantIndex 2026.1 · Updated September 2026

Modelled bands describe the market, not an individual offer. Where an employer states pay, the stated figure is used and labelled as such.