AI Comp Analyzer | Sistava HR Team
Refreshed quarterly with peer benchmarks, role-by-role.
The HR Team is a team of AI Employees on Sistava.
Comp bands go stale fast, and a stale band is worse than no band because everyone treats it as settled. We refresh on a cadence you set, from live market evidence, your own paid roles, and the geography each seat actually sits in.
Offers land credible because the number has a reason behind it. Internal equity stays defensible because the analysis includes the people already on the payroll, not just the one being hired.
The evidence comes from public sources read live rather than from a report bought once and quoted for a year: posted salary ranges, public filings, live search across the roles you care about, and a premium professional database on the paid plans that shows who holds the role, at what level, at what size of company. Every band comes back with the sources attached, so you can dismiss the ones that do not apply to you instead of arguing with a single number.
Your own side of the picture is whatever you connect. Current salaries in a Google Sheet, an Airtable base, or BambooHR are read the same way, so the band and the reality can be compared in one place. Where the internal number sits outside the band, it says so plainly and shows the size of the gap rather than burying it in an average.
Two honest limits. It is a research and analysis job, not a legal one: a formal pay equity audit with legal weight belongs with counsel or a specialist firm, and this will help you prepare for one rather than replace it. And it does not change anybody pay. It produces the recommendation and the evidence; the decision, the conversation, and the budget stay with you.
What you get
- Bands refreshed on your cadence from live market evidence, with sources attached
- Geographic differences applied per location instead of one global number
- Your current salaries read from the sheet or HR system you already use
- Outliers inside the existing team surfaced with the size of the gap
- Equity and variable pay tracked alongside base where you use them
- Every recommendation traceable back to what it was based on
How it works
- Define the roles: Which titles, which levels, which locations, and what your business actually calls them.
- Gather live evidence: Posted ranges, public filings, live search, and the premium professional database on paid plans.
- Compare against your payroll: Current salaries read from your connected sheet or HR system and lined up against the band.
- Report with the reasoning: A band per role with the sources, the outliers, and the cost of closing each gap.
- Refresh, do not rebuild: Next cycle updates the same bands, so you can see what moved rather than starting again.
FAQ
Where does the market data come from?
Public and live: posted salary ranges, filings, job listings, and open research, plus a premium professional database on the paid plans. It is not a licensed survey product, and it tells you what each number came from so you can judge it.
How current is it?
As current as the day it runs, because the research happens at that moment rather than being read out of a stored report. That is the main advantage over a benchmark you bought last year.
Does it include equity?
It tracks equity and variable pay alongside base where you use them. Public data on equity is thinner than on cash, and it will say so rather than fill the gap with a guess.
Can it run a pay equity audit?
It can surface unexplained gaps between comparable roles and show you the numbers. A formal audit that stands up legally is work for counsel or a specialist firm, and this is preparation for that conversation, not a replacement for it.
Does it ever change someone pay?
No. It has no access to payroll and no authority over it. It recommends, evidences, and drafts the case; the decision is yours.