Company: The Pay Index
Website: https://www.thepayindex.com/
Founder(s): James Rust
About The Pay Index
Education & Career Support from 14 to Post-Graduation.
By collating over 20,000,000 pieces of real-time data The Pay Index has created one of the most comprehensive employability and careers tool available to school, college and university students. Its simple interactive format enables young people to investigate different pathways and so make informed decisions about their futures.
In the last 12 months, their听schools & college offering has been taken up by 7 regional Uniconnects and LEPs across England, as well as several independent schools, bringing career support and guidance to tens of thousands of young people, teachers, and career officers.
They have already received fantastic feedback:
鈥淚t is a fantastic tool for disadvantaged children to plot a path through higher education and to dispel myths surrounding student finance.鈥� – Richard Seymour, Project Officer of Higher Horizons
鈥淲e have struggled to deliver on the Gatsby Benchmarks, in particular accessing local labour market information and The Pay Index provides this.鈥�听– Michael Senior, Director of Sixth Form of Kingsbury High School
鈥淎 personalised and organic tool that is easy to navigate and gives accurate results based upon real-time data. A powerful aid to student decision-making and futures.鈥� –听Fiona Berry, Hub and Stakeholder Liaison Officer of Humber Outreach Programme
As part of The Pay Index鈥檚 mission to provide young people with useful employability, salary and education guidance, they partnered with the University of Nottingham to create a bespoke tool for university students. This tool allows students to create personalised career paths based on a wide array of factors including course, location, function, and sector.
鈥淭he insights we鈥檝e already gained from using The Pay Index are fascinating and we鈥檙e keen for our students and graduates to use this brilliant tool in addition to our existing resources in their career development planning.鈥� – Stuart Marriott, Associate Director, Careers and Employability Service
