Wrong compensation decisions cost companies millions – lost hires, wasted budgets, top talent walking out the door. All because they’re navigating with a broken compass: inaccurate benchmarks. With payroll accounting for over 70% of operating costs, businesses can’t afford to get compensation wrong.

That’s why 1,500 companies – such as Adyen, Wise, and Octopus Energy – trust Ravio as the new standard for compensation benchmarking.

It’s not about yesterday’s survey data or piecing together job postings, salary sites, and crowdsourced reports with AI. Ravio benchmarks are powered by live data pulled directly from company HR systems, which is expertly mapped and levelled by our compensation specialists, and backed by a robust methodology you can defend in any boardroom. Flexible enough to align with your strategy, but rigorous enough to stand up to scrutiny – a true quality-first benchmark.

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Benchmarking a generalist role is hard enough. Benchmarking a niche one – or a role that barely existed two years ago – is a different challenge entirely.

The data is thinner. The peer groups are harder to define. And whatever methodology you land on, you still need to defend it internally and make sure it holds up next to the rest of your framework.

[Sunny](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunny-chatterjee/?skipRedirect=true) and [Erika](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikaroshardt/?skipRedirect=true) have both had to work through this in practice – navigating limited market data, emerging skill sets that surveys haven't caught up with yet, and the pressure to maintain consistency across a compensation structure that wasn't built with edge cases in mind.

This session will cover:

*   Niche vs. emerging: rare roles and new roles aren't the same problem. How do you handle them differently?
*   Finding and using the data: what to do when the market view is genuinely sparse – and how much you can trust it
*   Peer group and consistency: building comparator groups when the data doesn't cooperate, without breaking the rest of your framework
*   Review cadence: how often do you need to revisit a niche or emerging role – and is it different from the rest?

As always, there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions, share experiences, and learn from fellow reward professionals who are navigating the same challenges.
