Why carefully mapping your employees is crucial : reminder.
Accurately mapping your employees to Figures jobs is a critical step to ensure reliable benchmarking. This process happens during onboarding and should be reviewed regularly to maintain data quality.
Figures provides an extensive list of jobs, each with a clear definition. Choose the closest equivalent for your roles based on responsibilities, not just job titles.
How Job Mapping Works
Figures provides some mapping suggestions based on the job title.
You can manually select the appropriate Figures job using our job definitions to guide your choices.
Individual Contributor vs. Manager
In Figures, the distinction between individual contributors and managers is not necessarily made by the job title, but rather by the level of seniority assigned. The same job title can therefore apply to different hierarchical levels.
Example for a Product Manager position:
Junior Product Manager
Senior Product Manager
Lead Product Manager
Head of Product Management
Director of Product Management
Chief Product Officer (CPO)
All these roles will be attached to the ‘Product Manager’ position in Figures, but with different levels of seniority to reflect their position in the hierarchy and their responsibilities.
What about students, interns or freelancers?
If you have imported students, interns or freelancers, please skip these as we don't have the means to map and compare them on Figures.
Furthermore, salaries of the mentioned types of staff members are usually very different from those of permanent full-time employees. Thus, mapping them to our regular mapping grid composed of jobs, locations and levels would distort the benchmarks we offer.
What if I can’t find the correct Figures job? 🤷♀️
If our list of jobs does not offer the right equivalent you’re looking for, you can leave it unmapped and make a new job request.
We review requests regularly, but as we only want to create relevant jobs (i.e. jobs for which we will be able to provide market data), the two following criteria must be met:
We’re confident we’ll be able to map at least 50 employees coming from at least 3 distinct companies.
The job is specific enough so that we compare similar employees (similar missions ans skills).
If we decide to create a new job you have requested, your CSM will get back to you with the good news! Keep in mind though: it may take some time for us to gather the right amount of data that will allow us to create the job.