What is a “slice”?
A slice is a term used to describe a cut of data.
A cut of data is defined as:
- Family + Level (employee compensation only) OR Title (Executive compensation only)
- Location
- For the US: Market Tier or Metro Area
- For Europe: Country
- Valuation Group, Number of Employees or Capital Raised
Example:
- Employee Compensation: Software Engineer, L3, in San Francisco, for companies that have a valuation of ≥$1B.
- Executive Compensation: Chief Financial Officer, in Tier 2 markets for companies that have raised more than $200M
How can I slice the data?
- ~40 distinct job families and ~30 executive job titles
- Manager, IC (Professional and Support) levels
- Location
- US Market Tier or specific Metros
- Markets
- Tier 1 = SF, NYC, LA, Seattle
- Tier 2 = D.C., Austin, Boston, Denver
- Tier 3 = All other US
- Metros
- San Francisco Bay Area
- New York Metro Area(NY/NJ/PA)
- Los Angeles Metro Area
- Boston Metro Area
- Markets
- European Country
- United Kingdom
- US Market Tier or specific Metros
- Company stage
- Valuation Bucket
- Cap Raised Bucket
- Number of Employees Bucket