The results of our annual Generic Salary Survey can be consulted in different ways: Editor©, Editor© Advanced and Income©. More information on these tools can be found on this page. Do not forget to take a look at the demos of both tools: demo Income© - demo Editor©.
Editor©
Editor© is the most efficient software package for thorough salary analyses. You are able to compare your own employees with a sample of actual observations originating from our Compensation & Benefits database. Editor© is the ideal instrument for the HR Manager with ambitions in Reward Management. Editor© also includes the Income© software. You have the possibility to take into account one or more of the 8 parameters when composing your own sample.
| PARAMETERS | REMUNERATION COMPONENTS | |
| Reference function | Fixed salary | |
| Reference diploma | Variable pay (bonuses, commissions, etc.) | |
| Company type | Total Cash (fixed + variable) | |
| Turnover class | Total Compensation (fixed + variable + valuation of benefits) | |
| Number of employees | Benefits: | |
| Sector | - Fixed expense allowance | |
| Region | - Company car | |
| Age |
Important functionalities:
- Provides information on Total Compensation: Total Cash plus valuation of company cars, meal allowances and fixed expenses allowances.
- Graphic representation of the market salary, not only based on fixed salary but also based on Total Cash, Total Compensation and variable pay components.
- Possibility to merge jobs in one sample and to compare the salary progress of 2 or more functions in one graph.
- Calculation of the salary deviation of your own employees in comparison to the salary of similar functions within comparable organisations, represented in clear and user-friendly Excel tables.
- Possibility to combine several functions and to grant a weight to the functions.
Editor© ADVANCED
If you have specific expectations with regard to our software, we are able to provide a customised version of Editor© based on your company’s requirements.
With Editor Advanced© we offer the possibility to compare your function and
remuneration structure with the most recent market data. You are able to consult
our data by means of Compas® bands, but you can also use your own salary bands
in Editor Advanced© to consult market data and to benchmark.
This will allow
you to benchmark your own salary bands and classes with those on the market.
Thanks to Editor Advanced© you will be able to compare your own classification
system with the most up-to-date market data.
Additionally, Editor Advanced© offers the Job Grading Guide, a reference classification system which can inspire you to develop your own remuneration policy. Do not hesitate to contact Hudson for Editor Advanced©, customised to your organisation, and get more out of your software!
Important functionalities:
- In addition to the comparison based on job content, you can now also extract salary data and create reports on the basis of job weight by means of our 5+1 Compas® job evaluation system.
- Offers an analytical and substantiated reference classification system for the reported reference functions.
- You can extract the market salary for functions with the same impact/ weight for the reference market of your choice.
- You are able to analyse the global reward policy of your organisation (employees, management, direction) with regard to the common reward policies used in the market.
Income©
The Income© basic software package is a professional tool which enables you to accurately simulate a market salary through a combination of 8 parameters, allowing you to compare your own employees with the market.
| PARAMETERS | REMUNERATION COMPONENTS |
| Reference function | Fixed salary |
| Reference diploma | Variable pay (bonuses, commissions, etc.) |
| Company type | Total Cash (fixed + variable) |
| Turnover class | Benefits: |
| Number of employees | - Fixed expense allowance |
| Sector | - Company car |
| RegioN | - Meal allowance |
| Age | - Group insurance |
Important functionalities:
- Prediction of the market salary based on salary data from the Hudson database.
- Graphic representation of the market salary for each reference function expressed in Total Cash.
- Screening of the salary data of your own employees in comparison with a reference market of your choice.
- Calculation of the salary deviation of your own employees in comparison with the salary of similar functions within comparable organisations.
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