Compensation IQ vs Figures

Compensation IQ is a web platform for People teams handling job architecture, salary benchmarking, and EU Pay Transparency work. Its benchmarking data covers 5m+ companies, 80k+ job titles, 100+ countries, and 100+ industries, combining job postings, self-reported data, real-time customer data, and optional Mercer datasets. Job Architecture provides 14 levels, 3 tracks, 34 job families, 21,000+ titles, and 30+ external frameworks. Salary tools include precision filters, a salary-band builder, pay-review tools, and audit trails. The EU product generates Article 7 responses, seven Article 9 metrics, adjusted and unadjusted gender pay gaps, and Article 18 traceability records across all 27 EU Member States, with multi-country, language, and currency support. More than 50 HRIS integrations are listed, alongside CSV upload, API access, real-time refresh, job matching, and pay-equity analysis. Subscriptions include onboarding, training, customer success management, and UK business-hours help. Pricing starts at £2,500/yr.

Figures is a compensation-management platform for mid-market and enterprise companies. Figures Benchmark provides 500,000+ compensation data points, including real-time fixed and variable pay, company-profile filters, and data-quality indicators; setup requires job levels. Structure adds salary bands, Pay Equity Foundations, compliant gender-pay-gap reports, automated employee information letters, and analytics. Companion adds annual and off-cycle compensation reviews, decision-history tracking, secure manager access, and advanced analytics showing review impact on pay equity. Pay Equity Expert provides advanced pay-gap analysis, worker-category breakdowns, remediation scenarios, and, depending on plan, automated remediation review campaigns. Figures connects with 30+ HRIS and review systems and supports SSO, role-based access, and least-privilege controls. The company says data is stored in Europe through AWS using aggregated de-identified benchmark data. Figures states SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certification and GDPR compliance.