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See how our certification process, backed by Syndio and overseen by an independent alliance of experts, can help you evolve into a more competitive, effective, equitable organization.
Certified Companies Leading the Way
Simple concept. Straightforward process.
As a Syndio customer, getting certified as a Fair Pay Workplace is seamless, thanks to our proven workplace equity analytics platform, data scientists, legal experts, and customer advocates.
Here’s how it works:
We confidentially review workforce and compensation data in your pay equity analysis.
Together, we discuss underlying causes for any pay inequity found.
With you, we make an Action Plan unique to and feasible for your company.
Once you agree to carry out the steps within your Action Plan, your company will be a Certified Fair Pay Workplace.
We will provide you with Brand and Communications Guidelines full of resources to communicate this milestone with your internal and external stakeholders.
Once certified, you will have periodic progress check-ins with your Pay Equity Advisor.
Annual Certification Fee
Fair Pay Workplace certified companies pay an annual fee to maintain their certification. That cost varies based on your number of employees, the state of your pay data, and other factors, but we work with organizations of all sizes to ensure that certification can fit your budget.
That fee allows us to meet our core costs and serve you in a few key ways:
Certification Resources: Most of the annual fee covers the labor of our data scientists and legal experts who conduct the analysis.
Communications Support: We also offer PR support to certified organizations, to help you tell your pay equity story. A percentage of the fee goes toward offering that guidance and maintaining resources like our brand assets and website.
Community and Movement Building: When awareness of pay equity increases, the value of certification increases with it. We use our fee to produce articles, reports, white papers, and events to sustain the movement toward fairness at work for everyone.
Why Get Certified?
Why get certified as a Fair Pay Workplace? Our thorough, transparent methodology brings value to your organization in a few major ways:
Getting certified as a Fair Pay Workplace is more than good PR—it’s a distinction that has to be earned. You’ll instantly communicate to your employees, your industry, and the public that your brand is a thought leader, dedicated to making an impact on people’s lives and livelihoods in ways that really matter.
Your more crucial hires are looking for concrete proof of fair pay before they ever engage with you. Fair Pay Workplace certification is that proof; you’ll attract high-performing employees and build a culture that can retain them for the long term.
People make decisions on where to spend their money based on shared values. Being a certified Fair Pay Workplace can attract more engaged customers and give you a strong legal framework that can help you live out those values through times of company growth, transition and transformation.
Led by an independent Alliance of Experts.
Fair Pay Workplace, Backed by Syndio, is guided by an independent alliance of experts who bring together their expertise in law, business, academia, HR, DEI and data science to define the Rules and Standards that qualify companies as Fair Pay Workplaces. They maintain the integrity of our certification, so that it’s only awarded to organizations who are really committed to solving pay equity.
Fair Pay Workplace FAQs
Get the answers to our most frequently asked questions about Fair Pay Workplace certification. For any additional questions, please email us directly at info@fairpayworkplace.org.
Fair Pay Workplace, backed by Syndio, is an independently-regulated program that partners with the world’s leading companies across industries on their journey to achieve equal pay for equal work, attract and retain the best talent, and build an equitable future for all. We certify organizations that are dedicated to true pay equity using transparent Rules and Standards to measure compensation comparisons across gender, race and ethnicity. Certified companies agree to a real-world action plan that advances fair pay in their workplace and the world.
Not all methodologies used to claim pay equity are created equal. Without one standard of measurement, companies can boast fair pay with a simple pledge that only helps them avoid confronting the real problems. Fair Pay Workplace, along with Syndio and our independent Alliance of Experts, is working to resolve pay inequities for everyday employees now and achieve a true standard for pay equity that’s built to last.
To be a Certified Fair Pay Workplace means an organization has committed to adopting the tailored action plan developed by their dedicated Fair Pay Workplace pay equity advisor, who led the company’s pay equity review. The tailored action plan has clear goals and timing expectations that companies follow, with ongoing support and check-ins from their advisor.
Yes, organizations with employees in multiple countries can receive certification. The Pay Equity Review allows global employers to group and compare compensation from employees based on their country of residence.
Yes. Certified organizations are required to share a link on their website with an externally facing statement about their compliance with the Fair Pay Workplace Rules and Standards. Everything you do as a certified organization to communicate your pay equity efforts amplifies your brand and motivates others to get certified.
Certified companies receive our Brand and Communications Guidelines, which contain a variety of resources to empower companies to share this important milestone with internal and external stakeholders.
Yes. All company data are confidentially managed on the Syndio platform. Details about Syndio’s data security process are provided here.
The following organizations have made a commitment to long-term pay equity and have been awarded certification by Fair Pay Workplace:
- American Airlines
- Bankers Healthcare Group
- BMC
- British American Tobacco
- Bungie
- CIS Security
- City of Colorado Springs
- Databricks
- Elevance Health
- Forsman & Bodenfors
- Graco
- Medallia
- NerdWallet
- One Trust
- Sellen Construction
- Snowflake
- Tenable
- University of California, Irvine
- Udemy
- Victoria’s Secret
Fair Pay Workplace is a program backed by Syndio and independently-overseen by our Alliance of Experts. The pay equity analysis we offer to companies is conducted by Syndio employees, but the Rules and Standards against which they’re compared are defined by a group of leaders in law, business, academia, HR, DEI and data science who are unaffiliated with Syndio.
It’s the unique combination of best-in-class technology from Syndio and cross-industry leadership from our Alliance that makes Fair Pay Workplace more thorough and transparent than any other pay equity certification.
Syndio's patent pending PayEQ is the leading SaaS solution for pay equity trusted by 300 brands, including 35% of Fortune's Most Admired Companies and 25% of the Just Capital Index. The software incorporates world class methodologies backed by expert consulting and the analyses for certification are run to the standards of Fair Pay Workplace's independent alliance of experts to ensure it's only awarded to companies truly committed to solving pay equity.
Yes. Fair Pay Workplace is backed by Syndio, so certification requires the use of Syndio’s proprietary pay equity analysis technology. The Fair Pay Workplace initiative gives your company a valuable symbol of a tangible commitment to pay equity, recognized by your shareholders, investors, the press, and employees, along with additional communications support to share that vision publicly.