About Equaly/xx.ai

Equaly/xx.ai is a compensation clarity platform built for HR managers, reward teams, and talent professionals across Europe. We aggregate official salary data from government statistics agencies and help you create defensible pay ranges — role by role, country by country.

Unlike traditional salary tools that rely on self-reported data, Equaly/xx.ai exclusively uses official European open data sources — CBS, Eurostat, SCB, Destatis, and others — providing accurate, legally defensible benchmarks aligned with the EU Pay Transparency Directive 2023/970.

Data Sources

CBS OData

The Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) provides detailed quarterly earnings data through their OData API. Our tool extracts data based on ISCO occupation codes and cross-references them with ESCO job classifications for standardized comparisons.

Data Coverage: Netherlands, Quarterly

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Eurostat Dissemination API

The EU Statistical Office (Eurostat) publishes comprehensive labor market statistics through their Dissemination API. We use their datasets to provide comparative salary data across all EU member states for international benchmarking.

Data Coverage: All EU Countries, Quarterly

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EURES Job Feed

The European Employment Services (EURES) job feed provides current job posting data including salary offers across Europe. We analyze these postings to extract real-time market rates organized by ESCO occupation codes.

Data Coverage: All EU Countries, Real-time

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WageIndicator

The WageIndicator Foundation publishes aggregated salary data collected through continuous web surveys. This source provides supplementary data particularly useful for emerging occupations not yet well-represented in official statistics.

Data Coverage: Multiple EU Countries, Monthly

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Methodology

  1. Classification Mapping
    We map ISCO occupational codes to ESCO job classifications, and ESCO to NACE industry sectors, providing a standardized framework for cross-country and cross-sector comparisons.
  2. Data Collection & Validation
    Salary data is collected via official API endpoints using rate-limited, respectful access patterns. All data is validated for completeness and outliers are identified using interquartile range (IQR) methodology.
  3. Currency Conversion
    All salaries are converted to Euro using quarterly exchange rates from the European Central Bank, ensuring precise temporal alignment of international comparisons.
  4. Statistical Analysis
    For each occupation-sector-country combination, we calculate key percentiles (10th, 50th, 90th) to provide a comprehensive view of salary distributions beyond simple averages.
  5. Source Weighting
    When multiple data sources are available for the same occupation-sector-country, we apply sample-size weighting to ensure that larger, more representative datasets have proportionally greater influence on the final results.

Data freshness is ensured by only using information collected within the last 90 days. All results include confidence indicators based on sample size and mapping quality.

Use Cases

HR Compensation
  • Establish competitive salary ranges for new positions
  • Develop location-specific compensation packages
  • Conduct regular market benchmarking reviews
  • Support salary negotiations with data-driven insights
Strategic Planning
  • Evaluate labor costs for new office locations
  • Assess cost implications of organizational restructuring
  • Develop accurate budgets for workforce planning
  • Create competitive relocation packages

Classification Systems

ESCO is the European multilingual classification of Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations. It identifies and categorizes skills, competences, qualifications and occupations relevant for the EU labor market.

Our tool uses ESCO occupation codes as the primary classification system, providing standardization across different European data sources.

ISCO is an International Labour Organization (ILO) classification structure for organizing information on labor and jobs. It is part of the international family of economic and social classifications.

Many official statistics use ISCO codes, which our tool maps to ESCO occupations with confidence scores to ensure accurate data integration.

NACE is the European statistical classification of economic activities. It groups organizations according to their business activities for compiling and presenting statistical data.

Our tool uses NACE codes to segment salary data by industry sector, allowing for more precise comparisons within specific business domains.

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