Topic
Market series
Aggregate series across industries, countries and company size bands.
- Same-store cohorts: how the weekly market series stay comparableCoverage of a company index expands continuously, and a raw count would carry that expansion into every trend. Here is the cohort rule that keeps it out, and the arithmetic of every measure it feeds.
- Benchmarking pay and talent demand for workforce planningA workforce plan needs the pay employers advertise for a role and how many of them are competing for it. Here is how to build both from job postings.
- Benchmarking sales compensation from advertised payQuartiles of advertised base pay and on-target earnings for sales roles, by country and week. Here is how to place a plan against them and how to read the result.
- Measuring remote and hybrid work trends by industryThe share of new postings that state remote or hybrid work can be read every week by industry and country. Here is what it counts, how to pull it and how to read it.
- Producing market research from weekly aggregate seriesA weekly series is only as good as its footnote. Here is how research and media teams pull the Fokals Market Series, test a number before it is printed and cite it.
- Sector hiring trends for macro and thematic researchA thematic view is a claim about a sector, not one company. Here is how to read hiring series that hold their company cohort fixed, and how to test a theme across industries.
- A market dashboard on company signals in Data Studio (Looker Studio)How to shape the market series table for charting, build rate, index and growth charts with an industry filter, and avoid the aggregation and base-date traps that distort a weekly series.
- Power BI reports on company signalsA model for hiring and technology trends in Power BI: which tables are facts, which measures must not be summed, how refresh fits write-once tables and how row-level security keeps viewers in scope.
- Job functionA job function is the kind of work a role does, whatever its title. This entry shows how it is labelled, queried and read, and where function labels are uncertain.
- Same-store cohortCompare only the companies present for the whole window, so wider coverage does not look like market growth. The method, a worked example and where it is used.
- Seniority levelSeniority level places a job on a ladder from intern to executive. How it is read from a posting, where titles mislead, and how it appears in Fokals hiring data.