Link Performance To Pay Without Bias or Budget Chaos With CandorIQ
Traditional compensation systems often lead to inconsistent pay decisions, unrecognized high performers, and pay disparities across teams. Run data-backed merit cycles that reward real contributions, eliminate subjective decisions, and ensure every employee sees how performance translates to pay with our pay-for-performance software.
Stop Letting Broken Compensation Processes Cost You Top Talent
Most merit systems create the problems they're meant to solve. We fix them.
Eliminate Bias from Pay Decisions
Use real performance data to remove subjectivity. AI recommends pay increases based on actual contributions and internal equity, so top performers are always recognized.
Create Pay Transparency that Builds Trust
Employees see exactly how their performance impacts pay. Managers understand the reasoning behind each decision. HR tracks equity across demographics, building trust and engagement.
Real-Time Budget Control Without Surprises
Set budgets with guardrails and track costs in real time. AI flags issues instantly, suggesting alternatives before approvals, while finance views the total spend on one dashboard.
Complete Merit Cycles in Under a Week
Automated workflows help managers make decisions quickly, with all the context they need. HR only reviews exceptions. Payroll updates with one click, ensuring timely, accurate adjustments for everyone.
Monitor Equity Across Your Organization
HR tracks merit distribution in real-time—by performance, department, demographics, and tenure. Spot and fix inconsistencies, ensuring your merit cycle rewards actual results fairly before finalizing.
How CandorIQ Connects Performance To Fair Pay
Five steps that turn subjective merit decisions into objective, performance-based outcomes.
Aggregate Performance Data
Connect your tools—HRIS, performance management, and reviews. CandorIQ pulls ratings, goal achievements, feedback, and contributions into one view. Managers get the full performance picture, not fragmented data.
Set Performance-Based Criteria
Define how performance levels translate into merit increases. Link pay to specific achievements or OKRs and set minimum thresholds for any increase. The platform enforces your standards automatically.
Generate Bias-Free Recommendations
AI analyzes performance, tenure, pay, and equity to suggest merit increases. It highlights overlooked high performers and flags potential pay disparities. Every recommendation includes the performance data backing it up.
Empower Managers with Context
Managers review AI recommendations with performance data, peer comparisons, and budget. They can adjust but must justify with performance evidence, ensuring accountability while cutting admin work.
Built For HR Teams Who Need To Make Fair Pay Decisions At Scale
HR Teams Rewarding Performance Fairly
Eliminate bias from compensation decisions. Ensure high performers are recognized and retained, regardless of department politics or manager favoritism.
Total Rewards Leaders Building Trust
Create pay transparency, showing employees how performance impacts pay. Turn merit cycles into trust-building opportunities, not anxiety-inducing mysteries.
Companies Closing Pay Equity Gaps
Spot and correct pay disparities before they grow. Keep audit-ready records showing how every merit decision ties to objective performance criteria.
Finance Teams Controlling Compensation Costs
Track merit cycle costs in real time. See how performance-based raises impact future headcount and total compensation, giving you full budget control.
Organizations Retaining Top Talent
Stop losing high performers over unrecognized contributions. Build a compensation culture where results drive rewards and top talent stays engaged.
Complete Pay-for-Performance Tools
Everything you need to manage compensation as you scale.
Merit Cycle Management
Run your entire merit process from setup to execution. Set budgets, guide manager decisions, track approvals, and communicate changes, all in one workflow.
Comp Builder
Build pay ranges that connect to performance tiers. Ensure every merit decision aligns with your compensation philosophy and market positioning.
AI Agents
Get instant recommendations on merit increases based on performance data, market trends, and internal equity, reducing bias and speeding decisions.
Employee Total Rewards
Show employees exactly how merit increases connect to performance. Transparent communication builds trust and retention.
Workforce Management
Model the cost impact of merit decisions before you commit. See how raises affect future budgets and headcount capacity.
What Happens When Scaling Companies Get the Right Tools?
Bubble: 30 Hours Saved Per Merit Cycle
Gained real-time visibility into the total rewards portal and cut the merit cycle time by 30 hours while improving pay equity conversations.
SigFig: From 3 Months to 3 Weeks
Accelerated their merit cycle by 4x with AI-powered automation, shifting focus from spreadsheets to strategy.
Yotascale: Total Rewards Transparency
Enabled employees to see their full compensation packages, reducing anxiety and improving retention.
Real-Time Insights from CandorIQ Deliver Measurable Impact
reduction in hiring time
faster merit cycles
reduction in employee churn
avg saved on headcount annually
Works With Your Existing Stack
CandorIQ connects seamlessly to 100+ systems you already use, streamlining your fragmented stack. It integrates with HRIS platforms like BambooHR and ADP, performance management tools like Lattice and 15Five, finance tools like NetSuite, and ATS/Payroll systems like Greenhouse and Paylocity. One platform, no manual data transfers.
Stop Letting Merit Cycles Drain Your Team. See How CandorIQ Works
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Merit Cycles Don't Have to Hurt
Replace months of manual work with a system that makes fair pay decisions faster and easier for everyone involved.