VAValue RERole Evaluation QAQuality Architecture

Vareqa is the pay architecture platform.

Grade every role. Build every band. Defend every decision, to your people, your auditors, and your regulators. Vareqa is how your organisation structures, explains, and stands behind the way it pays.

The Vareqa pay architecture platform
93 roles evaluatedCompliance posture: active
8-factor
transparent methodology
1,000 pts
weighted · fully disclosable
20 grades
R-01 to R-20
REF™
Role Evaluation Framework

The problem

Every organisation pays people. Few can explain how.

Pay decisions are made every day. The reasoning behind them is rarely structured, recorded, or something you could show. Then the questions arrive, from four directions at once.

"Why am I paid this?"

The employee, who deserves a clear and consistent answer about how their role is valued.

"Is this fair and equal?"

The regulator or the court, where the burden of proof for equal pay now sits with the employer.

"What is our exposure?"

Legal and compliance, who have to defend the method under challenge, not simply assert it.

"What does it cost?"

Finance, weighing a recurring consulting bill against a structured system the organisation owns.

Eight Compensable Factors

Eight Compensable Factors

Select a factor to see how the Role Evaluation Framework™ weights it.

18%
F-01 · 180 / 1000 pts
Organisational Impact

The Platform

Twelve modules. One connected system.

Every module shares a single data layer. Evaluate a role once and the pay bands, job descriptions, employee reports, and equity analyses are all built from the same foundation.

Evaluate any role against all eight factors in a guided workflow. AI suggests an initial score with rationale per factor; you review, adjust, confirm. Under ten minutes, full audit trail.
Place any two roles side by side, factor by factor, to see exactly where and why their grades differ, the evidence base for every internal-equity conversation.
Every evaluation, override, and policy version is preserved and exportable, the system of record that stands behind each decision.
Generate the worker-information-form documentation the EU Pay Transparency Directive expects, drawn directly from the evaluation record.
Publish defensible pay ranges to every job advert, mapped to the grade structure so the number you post is the number you can stand behind.
Answer Article 7 information requests within the statutory window, with a plain-language rationale in the employee's own language.
Run the Pay Gap Calculator across the workforce to surface and document gaps before a regulator does.
Four more modules, all built on the same evaluation data: grade-aligned job descriptions, high-volume batch grading, multi-jurisdiction reporting, and exportable reports.

Who it's for

Built for everyone who answers for pay.

One architecture, one transparent evaluation, and each stakeholder gets exactly what they need from it.

HR & Reward

Grade in days, not quarters

Evaluate an entire organisation quickly, hold consistent bands across every team, and keep them current as roles change.

Employees

Fairness people can see

A clear, honest account of how a role is valued and where it sits, available in plain language and in ten languages.

Legal & Compliance

Defensible and disclosable

Map each transparency obligation to an output, and answer any challenge with the full derivation behind the grade. For Legal

Finance

Owned, not re-bought

Replace a recurring consulting line with a fixed platform cost, and see pay structure and equity exposure on the same numbers. For Finance

A different architecture

A methodology built to be shown, not hidden.

Traditional frameworks

  • Scoring logic is contractually protected, and cannot be shared with employees or regulators.
  • Evaluations require a licensed consultant; weeks to complete, significant cost per engagement.
  • The output an employee sees is a grade, with no rationale.
  • The opacity conflicts with what EU Directive Article 4 now requires.

Vareqa

  • Fully transparent methodology: factor definitions, point values, thresholds published and shareable.
  • Self-serve. First evaluation in under 10 minutes. No consultant, no engagement fee.
  • Every evaluation produces a plain-language rationale in the employee's language.
  • Compliant with Article 4 by design, with a market equivalency guide for migration.

Why it holds up

Four layers of defensibility.

Layer 01 · Regulatory coverage

The architecture maps to the law, not the other way around.

Article 4 satisfied by the REF™ methodology. Article 5 by the Salary Range Publisher. Article 7 by the right-to-information report. Article 9 by the Pay Gap Calculator. Article 10 by the documented audit trail, with the Joint Pay Assessment workflow in development. The same architecture extends to GCC nationalisation, US state laws, Japan's EEOA, and UK reporting.

Layer 02 · Data compounding

Every evaluation strengthens the next one.

Each role produces structured data from the same methodology, consistent in a way self-reported salary surveys can never be. Supports an anonymised benchmark layer (in development, subject to GDPR and competition-law review).

Layer 03 · External validation

The methodology stands up to independent review.

External legal opinion from an EU employment firm; third-party certification against a recognised pay-equity standard; a published, academically co-authored methodology paper. All in development.

Layer 04 · System of record

A pay architecture is not a one-off project.

Ranges publish on every advert, information requests arrive on 60-day deadlines, annual gap analyses recur, new roles need grading. Vareqa sits underneath as the system of record, with full version history.

Get Started

Book a Pay Architecture Review.

A 30-minute conversation. Tell us about your organisation and where you are today. We will walk you through where Vareqa fits, where your current exposure sits against the regulations that apply to you, and what it would take to put a defensible architecture in place on your specific timeline.

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