<template>
<div>
<div class="wrap">
<h1>What people earn, by team</h1>
<p class="lead">
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.
</p>
<div class="card">
<div id="chart">
<apexchart
type="unit"
height="470"
:options="chartOptions"
:series="series"
></apexchart>
</div>
</div>
<div class="note">
A horizontal beeswarm is the default
<code>plotOptions.unit.scatter</code> with
<code>orientation: 'horizontal'</code>: 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.
</div>
</div>
</div>
</template>
<script>
import VueApexCharts from 'vue-apexcharts'
// A HORIZONTAL beeswarm: value on the X axis, one lane per department on Y.
// Every dot is a person's base pay. Each department gets its own hue (ordered so
// adjacent lanes separate well for colour-vision deficiency) and the eye reads
// each lane's spread, centre and outliers from the swarm shape.
// Figures are an illustrative sample (USD, base salary).
// Shared by the vanilla-js / React / Vue builds.
var DEPTS = [
{ name: 'Engineering', mean: 152, sd: 30, n: 34 },
{ name: 'Data Science', mean: 158, sd: 26, n: 22 },
{ name: 'Product', mean: 141, sd: 22, n: 18 },
{ name: 'Design', mean: 118, sd: 20, n: 20 },
{ name: 'Sales', mean: 112, sd: 34, n: 30 },
{ name: 'Support', mean: 74, sd: 12, n: 26 },
]
// Deterministic normal-ish sample (Irwin-Hall via an LCG): stable across
// re-renders and SSR, no Math.random. Rounded to the nearest $1k, floored so no
// dot dips below a plausible wage.
function swarm(mean, sd, n, seed) {
var out = []
var s = seed >>> 0
function u() {
s = (s * 1664525 + 1013904223) >>> 0
return s / 4294967296
}
for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {
var g = 0
for (var k = 0; k < 6; k++) g += u()
var z = (g - 3) / Math.sqrt(0.5)
out.push(Math.max(48, Math.round(mean + z * sd)))
}
return out
}
var paySeries = DEPTS.map(function (d, i) {
return {
name: d.name,
data: swarm(d.mean, d.sd, d.n, 41 + i * 977).map(function (v, j) {
return { name: d.name + ' #' + (j + 1), value: v }
}),
}
})
export default {
components: {
apexchart: VueApexCharts,
},
data: function () {
return {
series: paySeries,
chartOptions: {
chart: {
id: 'salarySwarm',
type: 'unit',
height: 470,
fontFamily: 'inherit',
animations: {
enabled: true,
speed: 700,
},
},
// One hue per team, ordered so adjacent lanes stay far apart for colour-vision
// deficiency (validated: worst adjacent pair ΔE 9.2 CVD / 27.6 normal). The lane
// label repeats the colour, so identity never rests on hue alone.
colors: [
'#008300',
'#2a78d6',
'#eb6834',
'#1baf7a',
'#4a3aa7',
'#e87ba4',
],
legend: {
position: 'bottom',
markers: { radius: 12 },
},
plotOptions: {
unit: {
layout: 'scatter',
size: 4,
scatter: {
orientation: 'horizontal',
spread: 'swarm',
xMin: 40,
xMax: 240,
tickAmount: 5,
laneLabelWidth: 104,
xTitle: 'Base salary',
xFormatter: function (v) {
return '$' + v + 'k'
},
},
},
},
tooltip: {
enabled: true,
},
},
}
},
}
</script>
<style>
body {
font-family:
-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, sans-serif;
background: #fafbfc;
color: #222b36;
margin: 0;
padding: 32px 16px;
}
.wrap {
max-width: 760px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
h1 {
font-size: 22px;
letter-spacing: -0.01em;
margin: 0 0 6px;
}
.lead {
color: #5b6b78;
line-height: 1.55;
margin: 0 0 18px;
font-size: 14px;
}
.card {
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid #eef1f4;
border-radius: 12px;
padding: 16px 14px 8px;
box-shadow:
0 1px 3px rgba(20, 30, 45, 0.05),
0 8px 24px rgba(20, 30, 45, 0.04);
}
.note {
background: #f4f7fb;
border-left: 3px solid #2a78d6;
padding: 12px 16px;
font-size: 13px;
color: #37424e;
border-radius: 2px;
line-height: 1.65;
margin: 22px 0 0;
}
.note code {
background: #e4ecf7;
padding: 1px 5px;
border-radius: 3px;
font-size: 12px;
}
</style>