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Use Salary Intelligence to benchmark roles
Salary Intelligence helps you analyse market salaries, compare employee salaries with market data, and make informed remuneration decisions using AI-powered analysis within ELMO.
Overview
Salary Intelligence uses real salary offer data from across Australia to identify comparable roles and produce a market salary range for the role you analyse. Providing detailed role information helps improve the accuracy of the result.
You can analyse an existing role or enter a role that is not in your system. Salary Intelligence supports both Position-led and Employee-led organisations.
Salary Intelligence is available to AU organisations using HR Core with AI features enabled.
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Salary Intelligence uses dynamic, on-demand market insights based on ELMO recruitment offer data and AI analysis.
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Labels differ between organisation types. This article uses Position-led terminology. If your organisation is Employee-led, read "position" wherever "job role" appears on screen.
Salary Intelligence features
Market benchmark: Analyse a role against external market salary data.
Employee salaries: Compare market data with your organisation's actual employee salaries.
Confidence panel: View a High, Medium, or Low confidence level for each analysis.
AI reasoning: Review how the result was calculated and how to improve its accuracy.
Compare mode: Overlay two role analyses on one chart.
Internal pay policy: Display a defined pay range, set as fixed amounts or relative to the market, and its midpoint alongside market data.
Display controls: Show or hide the Market benchmark, Employee salaries, and Internal pay policy data series.
Recent analyses: Reopen analyses from the landing screen or analysis history.
Security profile: Control access to Salary Intelligence and employee identity details.
Analyse a role
When you open Salary Intelligence, you can reopen a recent analysis, select an existing job role, or enter a title and description for a role that does not exist in your organisation.
Open a recent analysis
Recent analyses appear in the Open a recent salary analysis panel on the landing screen. Up to five analyses appear, with the most recent listed first.
Select an analysis to reopen it at its last-viewed state, including any comparisons. Select View all to open a sortable, paginated list of your analysis history.
Analyse an existing job role
1. Select the existing job role. Employee-led organisations select an existing position.
2. Review the role title and description.
3. Select Preview description to review the full description.
4. Select Generate analysis.
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If the role has no saved description, a warning appears and Preview description is unavailable.
Analyse a role that is not in your system
1. Select New job role. Employee-led organisations select Enter a title and description.
2. Enter the role title.
3. Enter a description that includes relevant details such as location, seniority, skills, and qualifications.
4. Select Generate analysis.
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A title is required. Detailed role information helps Salary Intelligence identify comparable market roles and improve the result.
Review an analysis
Confidence panel
The confidence panel appears above the chart and shows whether the analysis has High, Medium, or Low confidence.
Low and Medium confidence: The panel is expanded and includes an explanation, How did we get this result?, How can I get a better result?, View AI reasoning, and View suggestions.
High confidence: The panel is collapsed and shows the confidence label and a brief summary. Select Show more to view the full detail.
Use Show more and Show less to expand or collapse the panel.
Market benchmark chart
The chart displays salary distribution for comparable market roles and can include the following data:
Market benchmark: The salary range from external market data.
Employee salaries: The salaries of employees in your organisation who occupy the role.
Internal pay policy: Your organisation's defined pay range for the role, including the calculated midpoint.
Employee salary markers increase in size when multiple employees share the same salary. Select a marker to see the employee or employees it represents, subject to your permissions.
Summary data
The summary table below the chart displays the Market benchmark range, Employee salaries range, and Internal pay policy range.
Display controls
Use the Display toggle to show or hide individual data series. All available series appear by default. A data series that is unavailable for the role has a disabled toggle.
Use AI reasoning
Each analysis includes an AI reasoning drawer that explains how the result was calculated, what Salary Intelligence understood about the role, and which suggestions can improve the result.
Review the reasoning and suggestions alongside the confidence level before using the analysis to support remuneration decisions.
Compare roles
Use Compare mode to overlay a second role analysis on the same chart. You can compare market rates side by side and set an internal pay policy for each role.
Compare mode is useful when reviewing similar roles, assessing a job family, or considering changes to a role description.
Set an internal pay policy
Define a custom pay range for a role by entering a lower band and upper band. Each band can be a fixed dollar amount or relative to the market, for example Market +10%. Salary Intelligence calculates the midpoint and displays it on the analysis chart alongside the market data.
In Compare mode, you can set an internal pay policy for each role being compared.
Manage access
Access to Salary Intelligence is controlled by the dedicated Salary Intelligence security profile. A Company Admin must assign this profile to a user before they can access the module.
To assign the profile, go to Administration → General → Security Profiles and select the Salary Intelligence profile.
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Users can identify employees behind salary markers only when their permissions include access to employee identity details.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Position-led and Employee-led terminology? +
Position-led organisations use the term "job role". Employee-led organisations use the term "position". The analysis features are available for both organisation types.
What information improves analysis accuracy? +
Include specific information such as the role location, seniority, skills, qualifications, title, and description. Review the AI reasoning and suggestions for additional ways to improve the result.
Why can I not see an employee's identity behind a salary marker? +
Employee identity detail is controlled by the Salary Intelligence security profile and can be disabled independently. Contact your system administrator if you need access.
What happens when a role has no description? +
A warning appears and Preview description is unavailable. Add a description to the role record before reviewing its description.