Salary review – real-time pay-equity guardrail

When the “Salary review pay-equity guardrail” feature is enabled for your organization, the salary review workspace shows a small signal directly under the proposed-salary field. The signal shows how the group’s gender pay gap would move if the salaries you currently propose go through: “pay gap 6 pp → 4 pp”. The groups shown per employee are the person’s Equal Work group and department, plus the job category when the organisation uses job categories. Green means the gap improves or is unchanged, amber that it worsens slightly, and red that the gap worsens to above 5 percentage points or that the proposal takes the group over the 5 % line (see How it is calculated below).

The figure is the exact same anonymity-protected group calculation (mean-based) the rest of the app shows, with the proposed salaries substituted in. The computation runs on the server and never sends any underlying salaries or employee rows to the browser — only the finished before/after figures.

The anonymity protection applies in full: if the group is smaller than the organization’s minimum group size, or if either gender in the group is on its own below the threshold, no figure is shown at all — only the text “group too small”. This applies to both the before and the after value; the guardrail can never be used to derive a gap the rest of the app hides. As a manager you also only see figures computed over your own part of the organization (the same people whose proposals you already see in the workspace).

The signal is advisory, not blocking: it never prevents a proposal from being saved or submitted — it exists so you see the consequence while making the decision, instead of in a report afterwards.

How it is calculated. The gap is mean-based, on full-time pay: 100 − women’s pay as a % of men’s (rounded to a whole number), shown without a sign. Before = current salaries, after = the same people with all your proposed salaries substituted. Only colleagues paid in the same currency as the person are counted. Example: women’s mean SEK 47,000 and men’s SEK 50,000 give 94 %, i.e. 6 pp; raising two women so that their mean becomes SEK 48,000 gives 96 %, i.e. 4 pp, and the signal turns green. The colours: green when the gap shrinks or is unchanged; amber when it grows but stays at most 5 pp; red when it grows to above 5 pp, or when the unrounded mean gap after the proposal is at least 5 % and it was either below 5 % before or has grown. The text “over the 5 % line” is shown when the unrounded gap after the proposal is at least 5 %, even when the gap shrinks. The median is only assessed at approval, not while you type. Every concept, with one shared worked example, is in the article Concepts and calculations.