Salary Bands let you define the pay range your organisation has committed to at each track and level, then compare those ranges against market data and your own employees' actual pay. The setup wizard walks you through the structure once per country — tracks (e.g. IC, Management), levels per track, the band ranges themselves, and which LiveRem roles sit in which band.
This guide covers the first-time setup flow. For day-to-day use of the bands screen after setup, see How to use Salary Bands.
Before you start
Your HR and payroll systems should be connected to LiveRem so the bands surface can show real employee data alongside your defined ranges. See the Integration Guide.
Your role needs the BANDS_EDIT permission to run the wizard. Ask an admin to check via Settings > Users & Access if you can't reach the Bands screen.
Have your band structure handy — track names, the number of levels per track, and the dollar ranges for each level. You can also import the whole structure from a CSV if you have one prepared.
Get started
From the left navigation, open Salary Bands. If your organisation hasn't set up any bands yet, you'll land on the empty state with two options:
Get started — run through the four-step wizard manually (covered below).
Import from CSV — upload a CSV with every track and band already defined. Use the Download template link to grab the column format.
Pick a country
Salary Bands are country-scoped — each country has its own tracks, bands, role mappings, and currency. When you click Get started on a fresh organisation, you're asked which country to set up first.
The country list comes from your LiveRem location tree. If a country you need is missing, check that you have employees with locations in that country first.
The currency is derived from the country automatically (e.g. New Zealand → NZD, Australia → AUD). You don't pick it separately.
You can add more countries later from the country picker at the top of the Bands screen.
Step 1 — Tracks
Tracks are the columns of your band ladder — typically one per career path. Common patterns:
IC — Individual Contributor.
M — Management.
E — Executive (optional, for senior leadership).
Toggle the suggested tracks on or off, or click + Add custom track to define your own. For each track you'll set:
Name — what shows in the UI (e.g. "Individual Contributor").
Short code — 1–4 letters/digits used on band tags and the ladder column header (e.g. "IC", "EM").
Colour — the dot used to identify the track across the bands screens.
Step 2 — Levels
Pick how many levels each track has. A typical IC track might have 5 levels (Associate → Engineer → Senior → Staff → Principal). A management track usually has fewer (3–4).
Each level becomes one band — the names are auto-generated from the short code and level number (IC1, IC2, …). You can rename individual bands later from the edit band dialog.
Step 3 — Set bands
For each track, define the bottom band's range and how successive bands step up from there. There are three modes:
Percent spread (recommended)
Bottom band Min / Max — the lowest level's pay range in whole dollars (e.g.
60,000and75,000, not60and75).Spread value — the percent each level steps up from the previous.
25means each level is 25% higher than the one below it.
Example: with a bottom band of $60,000–$75,000 and a 25% spread, level 2 becomes $75,000–$94,000, level 3 becomes $94,000–$118,000, and so on.
Dollar spread
Same idea, but each level adds a fixed dollar amount instead of a percent. Useful when you want even step sizes across the ladder.
Manual
Every band's min and max is entered by hand. Use this when your bands don't follow a regular spread rule.
The preview table becomes editable; type the min and max for each level. Mid is always the average of min and max — you don't enter it directly.
Values are in whole dollars — type 60000, not 60k. The bands screen shows them with the country's currency code (e.g. 60,000 NZD).
Step 4 — Map roles
The final step links your LiveRem roles to the bands you've just defined. This is what powers the "where do people sit" view on the Bands screen.
The map roles screen has two views:
Track list — a card per track showing how many roles are mapped and how many bands have at least one role assigned. Click a track to drill in.
Per-track transfer pane — on the left, every LiveRem role not yet mapped to a band in this track; on the right, your bands for this track. Drag a role onto a band to map it. Click the × on a chip to unmap.
A single LiveRem role can sit in multiple tracks at different levels (e.g. "Software Engineer" mapped to both IC3 and M1). Drag it into each track separately.
Click Save and continue on each track to commit that track's mappings. You can Skip for now if you'd rather come back to mapping later — the bands save without roles attached and you'll just see "0 people" on each band until you map.
Finishing up
Click Finish on the last step to commit everything. The wizard writes your tracks, bands, and role mappings, then drops you onto the main Salary Bands screen with the overview and ladder rendered. The country is now flagged as set up — you won't be prompted to run the wizard for it again.
After setup
From the Bands overview you can:
+ New track — add a track to an existing country without re-running the wizard. Same configure-or-upload options.
+ New band — add a band to an existing track, or edit an existing band's range from the edit pencil on each row.
Add another country — use the + Add country chip in the country picker to start a fresh setup for another country.
Delete the country's bands — the kebab (…) menu next to the country picker archives the country and everything under it. Audit log keeps a record; contact support to restore.
See How to use Salary Bands for everything the overview screen does day-to-day.
By following this guide, you'll have a country's Salary Bands set up end-to-end — tracks, levels, ranges, and role mappings — ready to compare against market data and your own people.