Pay Transparency: Analyze and manage your pay gaps with mpleo
Ensure your regulatory compliance, manage your key performance indicators, and streamline the handling of employee requests related to their compensation.
A pay equity software to support your challenges
Compliance
Check your compliance with the European directive through pre-formatted analyses
Control
Analyze your compensation policies with reliable and actionable gap indicators.
Equity and Commitment
Identify, justify, and correct discrepancies to enhance transparency and internal cohesion.
Explicability
Cross-reference your payroll, skills, interviews, and performance data to contextualize and justify your pay discrepancies.
Easily analyze your pay gaps
Discover the 3 key features of the mpleo module dedicated to pay transparency.
Creation and configuration of compensation review campaigns
Define pay transparency campaigns tailored to your organization: reference periods, comparison criteria (job function, role, location, employer).
Gain a clear and consistent framework to analyze compensation across comparable employee groups.
Automatic Calculation of Compensation
Automate compensation calculations by integrating fixed salary, variable pay, and benefits.
mpleo dynamically calculates total, average, and median compensation on a full-time equivalent basis to ensure reliable analyses and facilitate comparisons.
Analysis of pay gaps
View real-time gender gaps‑male-female and individual gaps within each group.
The module automatically identifies situations exceeding the regulatory threshold of 5%, requiring analysis or corrective actions.

Additional functionalities for a comprehensive management of your pay equity
Easily populate your module with your compensation data:
- manual entry
- file import
- integration with your payroll systems
The module adapts to your existing environment to streamline implementation.
Ensure full traceability, essential for meeting regulatory requirements and supporting your decisions.
Configure a form accessible via the employee portal to allow your employees to submit requests related to their compensation.
Structure your analyses to turn legal obligations into a strategic lever.
Pay Transparency : compliance, management, and engagement
Discover the mpleo pay transparency module by getting in touch with our HRIS experts.
FAQ – Pay equity and pay transparency
Pay equity consists of ensuring fair compensation for equal work or work of comparable value. It notably aims to reduce pay gaps between women and men. Its assessment is based on objective, transparent, and measurable criteria.
It makes compensation criteria visible, helps measure pay gaps, and provides clear justification for compensation decisions.
The European Pay Transparency Directive now requires companies to measure and publish indicators on pay gaps between women and men. When an unjustified gap exceeding 5% is identified, the employer must be able to explain or correct it.
This implies structuring data collection, regularly analyzing pay gaps, and having a system in place to ensure full traceability of decisions.
A pay equity software solution therefore becomes essential to ensure compliance and mitigate legal risks.
Analyzing pay gaps goes beyond salary alone.
To be meaningful, it must rely on a comprehensive set of HR data, including:
- skill levels
- performance review outcomes
- individual performance
- tenure and career progression
Without this holistic view, it is impossible to distinguish between justified differences and discriminatory gaps.
An HRIS enables you to cross-reference this data, ensuring a reliable and explainable analysis of pay equity.
Beyond regulatory requirements, pay equity is a true strategic lever for organizations.
A clear and transparent compensation policy helps to:
- strengthen employee trust
- improve engagement and motivation
- reduce internal tensions
- enhance employer branding
By integrating pay transparency into their strategy, organizations increase their attractiveness and are better able to retain talent.
A pay transparency solution centralizes compensation data and automatically calculates pay gap indicators. It simplifies reporting and helps ensure regulatory compliance.
To explain pay gaps, it is essential to cross-reference multiple HR data points: skills, performance, experience, career history, and job responsibilities. This approach helps distinguish between justified differences and unjustified gaps.
An HRIS enables organizations to consolidate all the data needed to analyze and explain pay gaps. It provides a comprehensive and reliable view to manage pay equity and support informed decision-making.
Implementing a pay equity framework relies on several key steps:
- centralize compensation data
- define relevant comparison groups
- calculate pay gap indicators
- identify significant gaps
- implement corrective actions
A pay transparency solution helps automate these steps, improve the reliability of analyses, and manage actions over time.