Figures uses data flagging to ensure the data quality of our benchmarks. When an employee has been flagged by either you or someone from our customer support team, their data is removed from the benchmarks until it can be reviewed by you or your team.
What are flags?
Our flags are a system to isolate unusual data. They are attached to an employee’s data, and remove it from our benchmarks.
Categories
We have three different categories for flags:
Unusual Compensation: anything wrong with the base salary or bonuses (compensation suspiciously high or low). For example, an employee paid 15€ as a yearly gross salary.
Unusual Job Title: if there appears to be a mismatch between your own job title from your HRIS and the Figures’ references. For example, a VP Marketing mapped to a Back-end Developer position inside Figures.
Unusual Level: if there appears to be a mismatch between your job title, or level, and the Figures’ references. For example, a CEO mapped as a ‘Junior’ inside Figures.
Comment
When a flag is created by a user, it is possible to add a comment to explain what seems unusual with the data, or what are the expected next steps. Please be as precise as possible so that our team can investigate and guide you on how to best proceed.
Where to report unusual data?
Once logged in Figures, you can access the list of mapped employees from your Account, and the tab ‘Employees’. Once you’ve selected one employee, you will have access to the ‘Report’ button at the top right.
Automated flagging
During your onboarding process with Figures, we are also automatically flagging employees with unusual compensation. Most of the time, it means that there was an issue while syncing your HRIS. But we want to make sure you review this data before moving forward.
There are currently 4 reasons for us to flag employees:
Employees with a yearly gross salary under 5.000€ (or equivalent for different currencies).
Employees with a salary under the legal minimum wage for European countries.
Employees without a director level (C-Level, Director, VP, …) with a yearly gross salary superior to 300.000€ (or equivalent for different currencies).
Any employees with a yearly gross salary (excluding bonuses) superior to 2.000.000€.
What should I do?
If you have all of the necessary information to correct the data, you can edit employees during that step of the interview. Feel free to reach out to our support team if you have issues with your synced HRIS.
Otherwise, you can still access Figures’ data, while we ensure that wrong data is not taken into account into our benchmarks.