KnowQuant

Service one

Market mapping

A named map of everyone doing the work you are hiring for, by firm, desk, seniority and market, with movement over the last twelve months.

Time to deliver
Two to three weeks
Employers under coverage
22
Live vacancies indexed
1,457

What you receive

  • A named population for the role, split by firm, desk and seniority
  • Twelve months of movement in and out of that population
  • Pay bands for each tier, labelled stated or estimated
  • A ranked read on who is realistically approachable and why
  • Source lines against every entry so your team can check the work

How the work runs

  1. 01BriefOne call to fix the boundary of the market: role, desks, markets and the level you hire at.
  2. 02Index pullWe take the population out of the live index, then verify each entry against the employer's own published record.
  3. 03First-party researchThe gaps the index cannot see are filled by the desk, with the source noted on each row.
  4. 04DeliveryA working session on the map, with the caveats stated, followed by the file itself.

Evidence behind it

Built from the live index plus first-party research, delivered with sources against every entry.

How is this different from a list of profiles?

A list tells you who exists. The map tells you the size of the population, how it has moved, what each tier costs, and which parts of it you can realistically reach. Every row carries the source behind it.

How current is the underlying data?

The index refreshes continuously from employers' own published records. The map is stamped with the date it was built and the sample size behind each figure.

Hiring enquiry

Start a market mapping 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

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