One dot per employee, laned by department, placed on a single pay axis. The swarm packs equal pay side by side, so a wide bulge is a common salary and a lone dot far right is an outlier, the shape of each team's pay is visible at a glance.
plotOptions.unit.scatter
with orientation: 'horizontal': value on X, one category lane
per row on Y. Each team carries its own hue, ordered so neighbouring lanes
stay easy to tell apart for colour-vision deficiency, and the lane label
repeats that colour so identity never rests on hue alone. The unit chart is a
premium type, without a license it renders with a trial watermark.