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The Future of Compensation Management: 10 Trends Shaping 2026 |
Compose delivers real-time compensation data and analytics that give you a complete picture of your organization’s people, employee compensation, and equity data – putting data-driven insights at your fingertips.
It’s easy to use and highly responsive, and it gives you what you need to thrive through ever-shifting markets to attract, engage, and retain top talent.



















Stop relying on disconnected spreadsheets and manual compensation processes that drain HR professionals’ time and introduce costly mistakes. Compose automates compensation data collection, calculations, and reporting.
Access real-time compensation data and analytics that turn complex pay information into clear, actionable insights. With centralized compensation dashboards, HR professionals can analyze salary bands, track compensation budgets, and make confident decisions without waiting for outdated reports.
Give employees and leadership clear visibility into total compensation, total rewards, and how pay decisions are made. Accurate compensation reporting builds trust across the organization and helps identify pay gap issues before they impact retention or compliance.
Updates, changes, and modifications to compensation plans, compensation budgets, and payments are all factored into analytics in real-time. Customize your compensation dashboard for various roles and make them an integral part of the compensation planning process. Condense your processing and reporting time without the need to rerun reports for every change, eliminating the manual work that slows down HR professionals.
Easily integrate compensation analysis and benchmark data into your compensation planning process so that you can model and analyze pay equity impact and compare to market trends. With accurate compensation data integrated from multiple sources, HR professionals can build a compensation strategy that keeps your organization competitive.
Ensure fair and equitable employee compensation across your organization with comprehensive pay equity reporting. Compose gives HR professionals complete visibility into compensation data distribution by demographic factors, helping you identify pay gap issues before they impact employee satisfaction or create compliance risks. With real-time compensation data and auditable records, your team can support data-driven decision-making while staying ahead of evolving pay transparency legislation.
Project future compensation costs and model “what-if” scenarios before committing to salary adjustments, merit increases, or new headcount. With real-time compensation data and flexible reporting tools, compensation teams can test different approaches to compensation budgets and see the financial impact instantly, ensuring compensation planning aligns with organizational goals before decisions are finalized.
Compare current compensation decisions against prior years to measure progress, identify patterns, and evaluate the effectiveness of your compensation strategy over time. Access to historical compensation data helps teams understand how salary bands have shifted, whether pay gap issues are improving, and how total compensation has evolved across the organization.
The proper compensation management software gives you control and insights into your compensation philosophy. Learn more about the reporting & analytics capabilities of Compose.