Trusted Compensation Data

Lead the Market with Verified, Data-Driven Pay Data

For 25+ years, Salary.com has led the way in market data – uniting aggregated, survey, and real-time job posting data in one platform to give you a complete view of pay and the confidence to act.

Lead the Market with Verified, Data-Driven Pay Data

Your Challenges, Our Solutions

Competitiveness

Attracting and retaining top talent from your competitors is difficult without insight into current pay trends. HR-reported surveys, global benchmarks, and real-time job posting data help identify gaps, ensuring your pay is competitive and aligned with evolving market demands.

Efficiency

Managing pay across multiple roles, locations, and departments often means pulling from scattered sources – a slow and error prone process. Salary.com compensation data streamlines benchmarking, pricing, and pay analysis, enabling teams to act quickly, reduce errors, and implement consistent, strategic compensation programs.

Equity

Pay gaps and inconsistencies can hurt employee trust. Our combined datasets uncover market benchmarks, helping you ensure fair, competitive pay across all roles and locations.

“My favorite thing about Salary.com is the vast amount of market data benchmarking available and its ability to analyze our company information and form comparisons for our reporting and executive presentation needs.”

Farrah Alsabagh, Total Rewards Analyst

Walmart Canada

Fast, Accurate Pay Decisions at Your Fingertips

Fast, Accurate Pay Decisions at Your Fingertips

You can streamline market pricing and eliminate guesswork by relying on verified HR-reported insights. CompAnalyst® Market Data is the largest HR-reported salary dataset available—covering 16,000+ roles, 225 industries, and 24 countries—to help you confidently make fast, accurate pay decisions based on 100% HR-reported data. You get precise results for every job, in every market, without the manual work of consolidating surveys, spreadsheets, and inconsistent data sources.

Design Pay Programs That Win Top Talent

75% of hiring managers across various industries struggle to find candidates with the right specialized skills and sector knowledge. You can ensure your pay and benefits stay competitive by designing market-aligned programs with in-depth, industry-specific data. Compdata Surveys provide detailed insights into executive pay, compensation, and benefits, featuring peer data from 2,600+ organizations, letting you benchmark confidently and build programs that attract and retain top talent.

Design Pay Programs That Win Top Talent
Build Competitive Global Pay Programs

Build Competitive Global Pay Programs

You can confidently manage compensation for your global workforce with trusted, HR-reported data across regions and industries. IPAS Global Surveys provide comprehensive compensation insights, covering base pay, incentives, and allowances, to help you price and compare roles across multiple countries. Designed for multinational organizations, IPAS makes it easy to build fair, competitive global pay programs backed by reliable data. Global SalaryIQ delivers real-time competitive intelligence across 35+ countries, empowering you to make informed, localized decisions wherever your business operates. Easily navigate cross-border insights with built-in language translation and local currency display, allowing you to view, convert, and compare salaries across markets with ease.

See What Competitors Are Paying – Before You Make an Offer

With 67% of hiring managers saying job market analytics improve hiring decisions, real-time insights are key. SalaryIQ™ analyzes millions of job postings across 35+ countries to reveal how peers hire and structure pay, helping you refine offers, benchmark against competitors, and stay ahead of market trends.

See What Competitors Are Paying – Before You Make an Offer

AI That Unlocks the Story in Your Data

With the CompAnalyst AI Suite, your compensation data becomes more than numbers. AI agents scan across internal datasets and market benchmarks to surface trends, anomalies, and opportunities—eliminating hours of manual analysis and giving you faster, clearer insight into pay equity, performance, and workforce dynamics.

Our Total Compensation Management Portfolio

Our portfolio of solutions covers the full spectrum of compensation management, from strategy and planning to pay equity and compliance.

Market Intelligence & Benchmarking

CompAnalyst — Access reliable market data, salary structures, reporting, and seamless survey management.

SalaryIQ — Leverage real-time job posting data and analytics to make informed decisions and benchmark salaries.

Market Data — Replace cumbersome spreadsheets with fast, accurate job pricing using CompAnalyst® Market Data.

Compensation Strategy & Planning

Comp Planning — Simplify merit increases, bonuses, and incentive programs with powerful planning tools.

JobArchitect — Centralize and streamline job description creation, approvals, and management.

Pay Equity & Compliance

Pay Equity Analytics — Identify and address pay gaps, ensuring fair and equitable compensation practices while staying compliant with pay transparency laws.

Discover Why HR Pros Choose Salary.com

Kiersten O’Malley

HR Business Partner

ESI, Inc.

"What I like best is the depth of salary information available and the flexibility to tailor to our needs. Our implementation was very smooth, and the description of the number of features and customer support was very thorough."

Jennifer Blake, Sr.

Human Resources Consultant

PeformancePoint LLC

"Salary.com has tons of positions and levels of the same work, which is super helpful when building a job hierarchy. They continue to add new jobs and industry breakouts to the database in CompAnalyst."

Lori Meagher

Controller & HR Manager

EcoAdapt

"The ability to have receptive and responsive customer service when needing answer to any questions has been amazing and not feeling like I am just a ‘numbered customer’ but an actual client."

Lori Coleman

SHRM-CP, Human Resources Manager

Houston Habitat for Humanity

"We needed a reputable, credible source. I wasn’t going to use some fly-by-night company. Salary.com had non profit benchmarks many platforms didn’t -- that was big for me. Now, if someone asks where we got our numbers I can show them, it’s right there in the database."

Kiersten O’Malley

HR Business Partner

ESI, Inc.

"What I like best is the depth of salary information available and the flexibility to tailor to our needs. Our implementation was very smooth, and the description of the number of features and customer support was very thorough."

Jennifer Blake, Sr.

Human Resources Consultant

PeformancePoint LLC

"Salary.com has tons of positions and levels of the same work, which is super helpful when building a job hierarchy. They continue to add new jobs and industry breakouts to the database in CompAnalyst."

Lori Meagher

Controller & HR Manager

EcoAdapt

"The ability to have receptive and responsive customer service when needing answer to any questions has been amazing and not feeling like I am just a ‘numbered customer’ but an actual client."

Lori Coleman

SHRM-CP, Human Resources Manager

Houston Habitat for Humanity

"We needed a reputable, credible source. I wasn’t going to use some fly-by-night company. Salary.com had non profit benchmarks many platforms didn’t -- that was big for me. Now, if someone asks where we got our numbers I can show them, it’s right there in the database."

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Frequently Asked Questions

How often is the data updated?

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Salary.com refreshes its data more frequently than any other provider to ensure you always have the most current market insights. CompAnalyst Market Data is updated monthly, Compdata and IPAS Surveys are refreshed quarterly, and SalaryIQ data is collected daily and updated weekly, giving you continuous access to the latest market trends.

What industries and roles are covered by your datasets?

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Our datasets span hundreds of industries and thousands of roles, from entry-level positions to executive leadership. They cover broad industries like finance, technology, healthcare, and manufacturing, and also deep insights into niche sectors and specialized roles. This breadth allows organizations to benchmark nearly any position accurately, whether for talent acquisition, internal equity analysis, or global pay program development.

Are IPAS Surveys the only source for global compensation data?

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No, IPAS Surveys are not the only global source. IPAS covers over 100 countries, CompAnalyst Global Market Data spans 25 countries, and SalaryIQ provides real-time insights from 35+ countries. Together, these datasets give organizations comprehensive visibility into global pay trends, enabling HR teams to benchmark roles, account for geographic pay differences, and build equitable compensation programs worldwide.

Is participation required for CompData and IPAS surveys?

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Yes, participation is required to access the full benefits of CompData and IPAS surveys. Data is collected annually from each participant, ensuring that insights reflect the most current market trends. By contributing your organization’s compensation data, you gain access to comprehensive, benchmarked insights across industries and regions. Participation also helps maintain the accuracy and reliability of the aggregated results, empowering HR teams to make informed pay decisions and stay competitive.

Who should use CompAnalyst, SalaryIQ, IPAS, and CompData surveys?

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Each dataset is tailored to specific HR and compensation needs:

• CompAnalyst Market Data: Ideal for compensation and HR teams seeking scalable, precise pay data across roles, geographies, and industries—without the manual lift of gathering multiple surveys.

• SalaryIQ: Designed for compensation, recruiting, and talent acquisition teams who need to align offers with the latest global market trends in real time.

• IPAS Surveys: Perfect for global HR, compensation, and total rewards teams managing pay programs for multinational organizations across 100+ countries.

• Compdata Surveys: Suited for HR, compensation, and total rewards teams across U.S. industries such as healthcare, technology, manufacturing, hospitality, and more, providing detailed, role-specific benchmarks.

Using the right dataset ensures your team can make informed, equitable, and competitive pay decisions efficiently, whether for local or global workforces.

Can I use CompAnalyst, SalaryIQ, IPAS, and CompData together?

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Yes, these datasets are designed to complement each other, and using multiple sources is highly recommended for a complete view of the market. By combining these sources, organizations gain both breadth and depth—capturing global trends, regional nuances, industry-specific benchmarks, and real-time hiring insights. This multi-source approach ensures HR and compensation teams make fully informed, equitable, and competitive pay decisions across all geographies and job functions.

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  • How to create salary structures
  • How to conduct pay equity audits
  • How to design incentive programs
  • How to price jobs using our market data
  • How to simplify compensation management
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