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 normalize 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 Europe, 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 as much as possible. This is recommended for two reasons:
Conducting the mapping on the mapping tab is faster and more efficient thanks to our batch mapping feature. The latter, for example, allows you to map all employees with the same location at once. And the same accounts for jobs and levels.
The mapping you conduct on the mapping tab will be considered in case of future updates. Meaning, if you’ve already mapped a Junior Account Manager from Paris, and hire another employee with the exact same location, level and job, this person, when added to Figures, will be mapped automatically according to the already saved mapping settings.
The Mapping Tab
The Mapping tab should look as in the screenshot above, with a section for locations, levels and jobs. In each section the imported information is displayed on the left (grayed out and immutable) and the Figures equivalent can be chosen on the right.
When you first enter the Mapping tab, everything should be highlighted in a light red, meaning that so far nothing has been mapped.
Important Note☝️
If you do not specifically import Levels to Figures - either because you don’t have a leveling grid (yet) or because you have the levels included in the job title - then the section for levels won’t show on the Mapping tab.
In that case you should map the locations and jobs on the Mapping tab as described and then switch to the Imported employees tab to map the levels. 👇
For more information on how to conduct the mapping on the imported employees tab, please refer to How to conduct the mapping article.
⚠️ Very important, read carefully!
Only when you have mapped your employees to all three variables - locations, levels, and jobs - will the employees be considered as live.
And only then will we grant you full access to our platform and all available features.
Live means that your employee data will become part of our overall data pool and that your employees will be considered in your People and Company Dashboards on Figures, allowing you to assess your compensation policy and the individual market positioning of your employees - amongst other things.