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.
National Salary Survey · 2026 cycle
Participate in our salary survey and get a discount on your report
Participants submit their pay data on our template, we do the job matching, and every report comes back to you at a participant price.
You are already holding the data. Submitting it costs an afternoon and buys you the whole market at a participant price — plus a CompInsight seat to interrogate it.
- Register belowWe send the submission template and the job matching guide within one working day.
- Send your pay dataBasic, allowances and benefits by job. Our analysts match your jobs to the survey grades — you do not do the matching.
- Get your discountIt is applied automatically to your report when the cycle publishes, and your data is anonymised into the aggregate.
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
Track the cost of living, month on month
The other half of the pay conversation: what a household basket actually costs at each employment level, how it has moved, and whether take-home pay covers it.
Live from IPC’s basket pricing, free to view. The full report goes further.
Month-on-month movement
The basket priced each month, so you can see the direction of travel rather than a single annual number.
What the basket is made of
Housing, food, education, transport and the rest broken out, so you know which line carries the cost.
Trends over time
Every collection date side by side, for each employment level IPC prices.
What it means for pay
Whether take-home pay after PAYE covers the basket at each level. In the full report.
Click any block to open the trends page.
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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