What is Mapping and why is it important?
Once you have imported your employees to your Figures account - either by HRIS integration or by using our spreadsheet template - you will need to map them to the Figures equivalents for locations, levels, and jobs.
This is necessary in order to normalise your data, i. e. to make it comparable to our overall datapool. Since the latter consists of the data of many different clients from all over the world, each of which with different job titles and leveling grids, a baseline is needed for comparison. Our mapping grid consisting of a choice of locations, levels and jobs provides just that.
Why locations, levels and jobs, you ask? Well, because these three variables are the main drivers for differences in salary and need to be considered for a reliable comparison.
However, please note the following:
We do not have all jobs, locations or levels on Figures and you may not always find the right equivalent. In those cases, we ask that you leave it unmapped and make a new job request
If students, interns or freelancers have been imported, please make sure to skip these as well because we don't have the means to map and compare them on Figures.
Where to conduct the Mapping on Figures?
The mapping to Figures locations, levels and jobs should be conducted on the Mapping tab.