Figures vs Parmetra

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.

Parmetra is a web platform for EU employers and HR and compliance teams managing pay-transparency requirements. It calculates mean and median pay gaps across an organization and within work categories, flags the 5% joint-assessment trigger, and exports snapshots for regulators. Its point-factor engine scores roles on skills, effort, responsibility, and working conditions to group jobs of equal value using objective, gender-neutral criteria. Employers can publish salary ranges on vacancies and record the ban on salary-history questions. Employees can request average pay by sex for their category, with a tracked two-month response clock. Optional AI drafting proposes job-valuation criterion scores from a position title, but a person decides each score. The platform supports all 24 official EU languages. Growth includes Personio HRIS synchronization and salary-history tracking. Parmetra says workforce data is stored in the EU, with its primary application database in Frankfurt, Germany, and encrypted in transit and at rest. Workspaces are invitation-only and set up by the team; there is no self-service signup. Starter costs €179 a month; Growth costs €599 a month; Enterprise costs €1,199 a month; Scale costs €2,399 a month.