Salary benchmarking for Zimbabwe
Know what the market pays before you decide
Pay Genius puts every grade and job in your organisation against the latest national salary survey, and turns the answer into a report you can take to your board.
The Pay Genius platform
Ask in plain language, get an answer you can defend
Step 1 · Sign in. Your dashboard has three quick actions: submit your data, analyse salaries, or ask CompInsight.
Sample workspace. The screens are the app’s own; every figure is illustrative.
Put a pay question in plain language, or attach a spreadsheet, and get the figures with the sample behind them.
Submit your data once and see every grade and job against the market, with compa-ratios and the cost of closing the gap.
The 25th percentile, median, 75th and average of basic salary, total direct cash and total cost, by grade, job and sector.
Minimum, midpoint and maximum for each grade, from the market percentile you choose to pay at.
Fifteen policy areas, from medical aid and pension to vehicles and school fees, and how common each is by level.
What a household basket costs each employment level and how it has moved, beside what pay has done.
The salary survey
Take part in the survey and benchmark your own pay
Participants submit their pay data through Pay Genius. In return, every analysis can put their own organisation beside the market, not just the market on its own.
- Classify your allowancesMark each allowance as direct cash or non-cash, and say how often it is paid.
- Download the templateOne workbook with three sheets: Company Info, Cash & Benefits and Policy Information. You don’t match jobs to the survey; IPC analysts confirm the job title and IPC level for every row.
- Upload the completed workbookUploading again for the same period replaces what you sent before, so a correction is one step.
- Answer the benefit policy questionsFifteen policy areas, one at a time, answered for each employment level. Most organisations take 25 to 40 minutes, and answers save as you go.
What participants get
A participant account is linked to your organisation, which is what lets Pay Genius compare you with the market.
- Custom benchmarking reports: your grades and jobs against the market
- Compa-ratios and the cost of bringing pay to a target percentile
- A pay structure built from the market percentile you choose
- CompInsight answers that can read your own submission
Tell us who you are and IPC sets your organisation up as a participant and creates your account.
Services
What you can do with Pay Genius
Grouped by what you are trying to get done.
Understand the market
Know what the market pays before you set anything.
Get answers
Turn the survey into an answer you can act on.
Build your framework
Put a structure behind the numbers.
Senior and single-role pay
For the conversations that need their own evidence.
Solutions
What clients raise with us, and what Pay Genius does about it
“We don’t know if our pay is keeping pace with the market.”
Without current market data, pay decisions rest on last year’s numbers.
The latest quarter, every time
Every analysis runs on the most recent quarter with enough participants to publish. Basic salary, total direct cash and total cost of employment, by IPC level and by job, so the decision rests on this quarter’s market.
“Our pay structure is becoming less competitive.”
Outdated scales make it harder to attract and keep the people we need.
See where the structure has slipped, then price the fix
Each grade is set against the market with a compa-ratio, and Cost Implications shows the adjustment required and the adjusted wage bill. Build a new structure from the percentile you want to pay at.
“We’re losing good people to better offers.”
Turnover, replacement cost and lost skills follow when the market outbids us.
Find the roles at risk before they resign
Compare job by job against the market and see who is paid below the range they compete in, while there is still time to act rather than in an exit interview.
Reports
The reports you can get
Five reports, each for a different question. Market and custom reports download straight from Analyze Salaries; for the others, ask through CompInsight and an IPC consultant builds the report and publishes it to your account.
Market Salary Report
The market on its own. Run it over every sector for the national picture, or over the sectors you choose, and each sector gets its own chapter.
- The Market and Participant Profile
- The Shape of the Market
- Market Pay by Grade and by Role
- A Pay by Grade chapter for each sector
- Allowances and Cash Benefits
- Benefits Structure
A chapter with no data behind it is left out rather than printed empty.
Cost of living
The other half of the pay conversation
IPC prices a household basket for each employment level, so an increase can be set against what living actually costs.
What a month costs
The monthly household basket for each employment level, broken down by category.
How the basket has moved
The basket tracked across collection dates, so you see the direction of travel, not a single number.
Whether pay covers it
Take-home pay after ZIMRA PAYE and the AIDS levy, set against the basket for the same level.
Five employment levels
Each basket is tied to IPC levels, so it lines up with the salary data grade for grade.
| Employment level | IPC levels |
|---|---|
| Executives | 1–2 |
| Senior Managers | 3–4 |
| Middle Managers | 5–6 |
| Professional | 7–9 |
| NEC Employees | 10–15 |
Signed-in clients can follow the trends, generate AI insights and download the report from the Cost of Living dashboard.
Data protection
Payroll data is sensitive. These are the rules around yours.
Aggregates only
Other organisations see market statistics, never your rows, names or job titles. Ask about a company that isn’t yours and the answer is the same as for one that doesn’t exist, so the participant list can’t be probed.
Thin samples are withheld
Where too few organisations sit behind a figure it reads “Insufficient participants to disclose”, never zero. Benefit results need at least three organisations.
The top of the range stays with IPC
Clients see up to the 75th percentile. Higher percentiles, where a handful of earners could be recognised, are kept to IPC consultants.
AI suggests, analysts confirm
Where a job title or IPC level is suggested by AI, it is queued for an IPC analyst to confirm before it counts in the market.
Personal accounts
Everyone signs in with their own verified email. Sessions expire on their own, and signing out revokes them.
Clients
Organisations we have worked with
- Ethco
- MegaMarket
- ZIDA
- Zimplats
- Hillcrest College
- ZBC
- SADC
- Cure Chem
- EY
- MIPF
- ZERA
- Kutsaga
- SAPP
- SIRDC
- NetOne
- Universal Leaf Tobacco
- Zimnat
- Whelson GDC Transport
Book a demo
Contact us
Thirty minutes with an IPC consultant, on a sample or on your own pay data. Nothing to prepare beforehand.
- Office
- Industrial Psychology Consultants (Pvt) Ltd
170 Arcturus Road, Greendale, Harare - Telephone
- (04) 481946-8, 481950
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