Professional Services
Take full control of rapid promotions, billable performance bonuses, and partner-track compensation. With complete visibility for no-problem audits. Manage rapid promotions, career progression salaries, and merit cycles with full flexibility. Administer billable hour bonuses, client/project-based incentives, and partner-track rewards seamlessly. Maintain auditability, transparency, and fairness across global teams and structures.
Unify Billable Targets, Career Levels, and Performance Data for Clean Cycle Prep
Aeqium connects to your HR tools so you can pull in the right employee records, career bands, and performance data across practices and offices. No more combining spreadsheets across advisory, legal, or finance teams. Launch compensation cycles with accurate, audit-ready inputs.
Firms reduce weeks of manual prep to a few hours while improving accuracy.
Enable Practice Leads to Recommend Comp with Confidence
Managers are responsible for merit decisions tied to client work, performance, and long-term retention. Aeqium gives them the insights they need like billable performance, prior comp history, and benchmarks so they can make defensible, transparent recommendations.
Support Promotion Paths, Bonus Models, and Practice-Specific Logic
From associate to partner, every level requires different rules. Aeqium lets you define logic for bonus eligibility, promo timing, and level-based guidelines across service lines or geographies. Easily reflect practice-specific comp policies without rebuilding your entire workflow.
Enable Practice Leads to Recommend Comp with Confidence
Managers are responsible for merit decisions tied to client work, performance, and long-term retention. Aeqium gives them the insights they need like billable performance, prior comp history, and benchmarks so they can make defensible, transparent recommendations.
Support Promotion Paths, Bonus Models, and Practice-Specific Logic
From associate to partner, every level requires different rules. Aeqium lets you define logic for bonus eligibility, promo timing, and level-based guidelines across service lines or geographies. Easily reflect practice-specific comp policies without rebuilding your entire workflow.
“Aeqium absolutely has a positive ROI for dbt Labs. We can easily customize it to match every iteration of our comp program, and it helps us and our managers make more thoughtful comp decisions. It’s made my life easier and is a big “W” for our people team.”
Clyde Stackhouse Global Total Rewards Manager, dbt Labs
Frequently Asked Questions
Compensation planning software for professional services firms manages pay across partners, directors, managers, and associates in one platform, replacing the Excel workflows and disconnected systems most consulting, accounting, and advisory firms use to handle performance-based bonuses, utilization targets, and partner compensation today.
Aeqium supports partner-level compensation with configurable formulas for profit-sharing, book of business, and utilization-based bonuses. You can configure separate cycles and visibility rules for partner comp versus staff comp in the same platform, without building separate systems or managing multiple spreadsheets.
Yes. Aeqium lets you build performance-linked bonus logic directly into your comp cycles. Revenue contribution, utilization rates, and client satisfaction scores can all be incorporated as inputs into bonus calculations without manual spreadsheet work or developer resources.
Aeqium lets you configure separate comp structures, band hierarchies, and approval workflows per practice area or business unit, while maintaining consolidated reporting and budget visibility at the firm level. Changes to one practice area never affect another.
Aeqium supports multi-currency comp cycles with configurable conversion logic. Global firms with employees across multiple countries can run a single unified cycle, report in one currency at the leadership level, and deliver employee statements in local currency, without manual reconciliation.
Aeqium's Total Rewards Communication portal gives every employee a clear, personalized view of their full compensation including base, bonus, and equity. Closing the information gap between what employees earn and what they understand they earn is one of the most effective retention levers available to professional services firms competing for top talent.
Yes. Aeqium integrates with Workday, ADP, SAP, and other ERP and HRIS platforms. SFTP and open API connections are also available for firms using custom or legacy systems so compensation data syncs automatically without manual exports.
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