Below is a brief overview of the methodology used to build the budgeting tool.
1. Geography - all roles have been mapped to regions: East Africa; West Africa and Global. Global meaning, roles that fall outside these regions or are ‘remote first’ / ‘global’ roles
2. USD conversion - all salaries have been converted from local currency to USD based on last 6 month average rate from exchangerates.org.uk
3. Mapping to department - all departments have been mapped based on inputs from our salary benchmarks. In some instances where we saw the need to break out certain roles into their own department because we saw a good volume of data (e.g. Design) we have done so based on the role titles shared.
4. Mapping to seniority - as a general rule of thumb (although we appreciate different companies will use different nomenclature) we mapped seniority as follows: Executive = c-suite / general or country manager / most senior head of department -- Senior = leads, senior managers, typically N-1 or 2 of an organization -- Mid-level = middle management, occasionally associates who are senior in position -- Junior = entry level, analysts, junior roles: