Pressure test ranges before the market moves beyond them
A live read on where offers are landing before it shows up in rejections or above-range exceptions.
"We built the range midpoints off of Radford, but is it still right?"
Why this comes up
Survey data captures what the market looked like when the data was collected. By the time it's released, aged, and built into a range, the signal is months old. Meanwhile, the actual market may have moved. Compa Offers gives a live read on where offers are actually landing.
When ranges are built on stale survey data comp teams will see candidates declining, recruiters going above-max, or new hires coming in above existing employees. By then, it's too late and the correction is reactive and expensive.
Survey data is a snapshot. Compa Offers is designed to move. When the market for a role shifts, offer data reflects it. Pressure testing a survey anchor against live offers tells you whether the anchor still holds.
- Live offer percentiles (p50, p75, p90) for the role, level, and geo.
- A directional read on market movement grounded in live market data
- A quantified gap with the exact delta, not an estimate.
- Role and geo-specific signal with sample sizes.
- Pulling additional survey cuts that all work from the same lagged data.
- Anecdotal triangulation from recruiter feedback and candidate conversations.
- Waiting for an above-range exception or a candidate decline to learn that the range has drifted.
- Manually building a comparison spreadsheet every time a range is questioned.
- Gut-feel adjustments because there wasn't time to do a real validation.
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