Reporting & Analytics

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.

Get the Most Out Of Your Compensation Plans

Reduce Manual Work and Errors

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.

Make Faster, Data-Driven Decisions

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HR professionals can analyze salary bands, track compensation budgets, and make confident decisions without waiting for outdated reports.

Improve Pay Transparency

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.

Real-Time Reports & Dashboards

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.

  • Report wizards make it easy to create sophisticated views drawing from multiple data tables.
  • Display information as preset PDF reports, dashboard visualizations, or interactive pages.
  • Enable data exploration, not just static dashboards – run variations, change scope, and use Compose AI Insights to bring compensation data to life
  • Define the scope of any report: A single employee, a group of employees, or totals by organizational unit.

Data Integration & Benchmarking

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.

  • Import 3rd party benchmarking data to evaluate your employee compensation against industry benchmarks and validate your salary bands.
  • Ensure consistency of evaluations and rewards between teams.

Pay Equity

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.

  • Comprehensive visualizations of compensation data distribution broken down by gender, race, ethnicity, and other demographic factors.
  • Identify and monitor pay gap trends across departments, job levels, and locations.
  • Track performance evaluations, salary progression, and merit increases for a complete view of pay equity across the organization.
  • Maintain trackable, reportable, and auditable records to support compliance with pay equity legislation.
  • Executive-ready dashboards for senior leadership, board members, and investors.

Budget Forecasting & Scenario Modeling

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.

  • Model salary adjustments, merit increases, and bonus allocations to see the projected impact on compensation budgets.
  • Run “what-if” scenarios to compare different compensation strategies before finalizing decisions.
  • Forecast compensation costs for new headcount, promotions, and market adjustments.
  • Align compensation planning with finance by sharing budget projections across teams.

Historical Trend Analysis

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.

  • Track how salary bands and compensation structures have changed year over year.
  • Measure progress on pay gap initiatives by comparing historical compensation data across demographic groups.
  • Analyze trends in merit increases, bonus distributions, and total rewards over time.
  • Evaluate the long-term impact of compensation decisions on employee satisfaction and retention.

Learn More Today

The proper compensation management software gives you control and insights into your compensation philosophy. Learn more about the reporting & analytics capabilities of Compose.