Read a Rating Against the Pay Band It Sits In — Free
Paste your rating, the band range and your current pay, and see where you sit in the band relative to the rating you were given.
The proof surface
Ratings and pay move on different cycles. Plotting the band rule across the review years shows whether strong ratings actually moved the number.
Why the flat version breaks
Rating without the band
An 'exceeds' rating means nothing without the band rule; in the sample it sits beside three years of pay below the midpoint.
Comparing across companies
External benchmarks mix job scopes, so a number from a job board cannot answer whether this pay is low inside this band.
Waiting for the promotion
Promotions often move the title before the band, and the years in between are exactly the ones the chart makes visible.
How to work the band audit sheet
Rating, pay at that review and the band range if you were quoted one.
Use your band's midpoint, or the midpoint HR has quoted; it is the rule the bars are read against.
Each year is a bar; a hot bar marks a review where a strong rating did not move the pay into the middle of the band.
Take the chart to the review and ask what has to happen for pay to move to the midpoint — scope, rating or timing.
What the chart replaces
| Question | Before | On the chart |
|---|---|---|
| Did my rating move pay | remember last year's figure | bar position against the midpoint rule |
| Am I under the band | compare job adverts | compa-ratio printed per year |
| What to raise | 'I feel underpaid' | the midpoint question with the band quoted |
Band ranges are the reader's own quotes; where a band is missing the row is plotted against the midpoint they supplied and labelled as such.
Run it on the samples, right here
FIRST-LOAD
Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the band audit sheet: your rating and pay notes stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a plotted bar chart sheet
The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the ready-to-mail packet, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 8 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.
The chart and the compa-ratio per year are free. The paid layer keeps six review years and prints the summary for a pay conversation.
Open the rating-to-band audit sheet companionBoundary
This band audit sheet works only on the review ratings, band ranges and pay figures you paste you paste. It does not tell you what you should be paid, does not compare you with colleagues, and does not access your employer's reward data. The figures describe what you supplied, not what is true in the world. Confirm anything you plan to act on with your manager and, if needed, a reward or HR partner before you rely on it.
What this is built on
- Every figure comes from the review ratings, band ranges and pay figures you paste you paste; nothing is looked up, scraped or asserted as verified.
- Method: compa-ratio = pay ÷ band midpoint, plotted per review year with the band floor and ceiling drawn as rules
- Sample values are labelled samples — illustrative by design, not your data and not a quotation of any organisation's policy.
Before: the reader assumed a strong rating moved their pay. After: they can see three consecutive 'exceeds' years where the bar never crossed the band midpoint.