Data Cleaning
Clean, Consistent Data for Confident Human Resource Decisions
Salary.com’s data cleaning service turns messy datasets into a trusted foundation for pay analysis, budgeting, and workforce planning. We apply rigorous quality checks, validation protocols, and formatting standards to ensure your data is accurate, consistent, and ready for use.
Clean Data Matters More Than Ever
Accurate, validated data empowers leaders to defend pay decisions, model financial impacts, and align rewards with performance and business priorities.
Table by Table Review
Our consultants will review your demographic, hierarchical, job, and set up tables to ensure accuracy, compliance, and currency.
Improve Cost Predictability
Reduce guesswork and support more accurate compensation forecasting, giving finance and HR greater control over budgets and workforce planning.
Strengthen Audit Readiness and Risk Management
Establish a defensible framework for regulatory audits, internal reviews, and employee challenges—minimizing legal exposure and protecting your brand.
Enable Faster, More Confident Decision-Making
Equip leaders to respond quickly to shifting business needs, restructurings, or executive inquiries with reliable, ready-to-use compensation data.
Our Process: Ensuring Clean Data for Confident Decision-Making
Salary.com’s structured, repeatable methodology ensures that compensation and workforce data is clean, consistent, and ready for strategic analysis and decision-making.
Every engagement is different, but will typically involve these core phases:
Data Intake and Initial Validation
- Relevant compensation, benefits, and workforce data is collected from client systems. Files are reviewed for completeness, correct formatting, and initial accuracy. Red flags such as missing fields or incompatible file types are identified early to prevent downstream issues.
Standardization and Alignment
- Data is normalized using consistent conventions for job titles, levels, currency formats, pay periods, and compensation elements. This ensures alignment across business units, systems, and geographies—enabling apples-to-apples comparisons.
Cleaning and Correction
- Anomalies, errors, and missing values are identified and addressed using business logic, benchmarks, or client guidance. Duplicates are removed, misaligned records are corrected, and all changes are documented to ensure traceability.
Outlier Detection and Review
- Statistical and rules-based methods are used to flag extreme or inconsistent values (e.g., out-of-range salaries or mismatched job levels). These are reviewed and validated in collaboration with stakeholders before finalization.
Delivery and Documentation
- A final quality assurance review is performed to ensure data integrity. Clean, analysis-ready datasets are delivered alongside transparent documentation of all processing steps—supporting auditability and downstream usage.
Why Choose Salary.com’s Consultants
Diversified and Experienced Team
Our individual consultants have decades of experience in a variety of industries. We have the knowledge and skills to help you in your specific organization, industry, and circumstances.
High-Touch Communication
Clear communication is a cornerstone of our process, and we will be with you every step of the way. Our team of consultants are available to provide guidance and support.
Salary.com’s Powerful Solutions
We leverage Salary.com’s industry-leading total compensation management platform, making full use of its trusted data and award-winning compensation solutions.
An Extra Set of Hands
Serious analysis is a big undertaking that all too often gets pushed to the bottom of the to-do list. This is a mistake, and everyone knows it, but sometimes your internal team just can’t get the time. Our consultants provide the extra resources and expertise to implement your compensation initiatives.
Third-Party Neutrality
Bringing in outside help demonstrates your commitment to fairness, transparency, and impartiality. It also guarantees a level of discretion not always possible within an organization.
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