HR-reported salary data

Benchmark Every Job with Confidence and Precision

Say goodbye to spreadsheets and stale data. CompAnalyst® Market Data delivers the industry’s largest, most trusted HR-reported dataset, giving you transparent, defensible pricing for every job in every pay market.

Benchmark Every Job with Confidence and Precision

Your Challenges, Our Solutions

Accuracy

Ensure pay decisions are precise and defensible. CompAnalyst Market Data delivers 100% HR-reported insights, powered by 800M+ data points, so you can tailor compensation by industry, company size, location, and key factors like experience and education for the most accurate match.

Efficiency

Eliminate manual work and tedious spreadsheets. Our streamlined three-step process helps you match, scope, and price jobs quickly, while customizable dashboards and mobile access let your team manage pay data anytime, anywhere.

Insight

Make strategic, market-driven decisions with confidence. CompAnalyst Market Data provides transparent, comprehensive pay insights for every job—even those not covered in traditional surveys—so you can benchmark roles, build hybrid jobs, and adjust compensation with actionable data.

"CompAnalyst gives me credibility – it’s like having a compensation expert on staff. I’m not just giving opinions; I’m presenting data that gets stakeholders buy-in."

Gary Fleenor, VP of Human Resources

Caris Healthcare

Benchmark Every Job with Confidence

Benchmark Every Job with Confidence

Many employees don’t feel their pay is fair – only 32% believe it is. Using trusted data is key. CompAnalyst® Market Data provides the industry’s largest 100% HR-reported dataset with 16,000+ jobs across 225 industries, so you scope by industry, company size, and geography for precise, defensible pay.

Price Jobs Faster and Smarter

Benchmarking manually is slow and error-prone, but employers using high-coverage tools see 2.5% fewer overpaid hires and a 16% reduction in wage overages. Our streamline three-step process – match, scope, and run reports – let’s you generate market pricing in minutes. Save job lists, create hybrid roles, and get actionable pay data fast, reducing manual work and improving efficiency across your team.

Price Jobs Faster and Smarter
Tailor Pay to Unique Roles

Tailor Pay to Unique Roles

Pay decisions should mirror each role’s unique value. With CompAnalyst Market Data, you can refine compensation by adding or modifying factors like experience, certifications, and hot skills to get the best match possible. Evaluate adjustments in real time to ensure each role is market-aligned, competitive, and defensible.

Visualize Data Your Way

Few companies have pay transparency strategies – just 19% in the U.S. – which makes sharing insights difficult. CompAnalyst Market Data helps you overcome this gap with customizable dashboards and presentation-ready reports, making it easy to highlight key trends and share actionable pay data with leadership.

Visualize Data Your Way
Strengthen Pay Decisions with Proven Accuracy

Strengthen Pay Decisions with Proven Accuracy

Reliable data ensures budgets align with market pay, internal equity, and business goals. With 800 million verified data points, CompAnalyst Market Data gives you the precision needed to plan pay with confidence and reduce second-guessing from others.

AI-Powered Compensation Planning

AI That Transforms Market Data into Decisions

CompAnalyst AI Suite powers smarter market analysis by instantly matching survey cuts, identifying emerging and declining roles, and uncovering trends – all without manual searching or analysis. By connecting market data, job insights, and workforce patterns, AI delivers faster, accurate, and more confident pay decisions that keep your organization competitive and compliant.

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

Shaun Drawdy

Director, Compensation

Saia

"CompAnalyst has allowed our organization to create a “one stop shop” for compensation. I highly recommend considering Salary.com if you’re looking to take your compensation function to the next level."

Amanda Williamson

M.A, SHRM-CP, Talent Management Director

Premise Health

"Salary.com’s CompAnalyst gives us a single source of truth for compensation decisions – it ensures our information is correct, consistent, and never buried in someone’s spreadsheets."

Jamie Benton

Human Resources Manager

Susan G. Komen

"I love that CompAnalyst Market Data drills so deeply into a region. I can drill down into a specific region or metro when someone is countering an offer. I provide pricing information to our recruiters for the specific geography where the candidate lives so our recruiters can communicate that the offer is within range."

Shaun Drawdy

Director, Compensation

Saia

"CompAnalyst has allowed our organization to create a “one stop shop” for compensation. I highly recommend considering Salary.com if you’re looking to take your compensation function to the next level."

Amanda Williamson

M.A, SHRM-CP, Talent Management Director

Premise Health

"Salary.com’s CompAnalyst gives us a single source of truth for compensation decisions – it ensures our information is correct, consistent, and never buried in someone’s spreadsheets."

Jamie Benton

Human Resources Manager

Susan G. Komen

"I love that CompAnalyst Market Data drills so deeply into a region. I can drill down into a specific region or metro when someone is countering an offer. I provide pricing information to our recruiters for the specific geography where the candidate lives so our recruiters can communicate that the offer is within range."

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Frequently Asked Questions

What’s included in the CompAnalyst Market Data set?

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The dataset covers more than 30,000 organizations, including public, private, non-profit, and for-profit companies of all sizes. It spans 187 U.S. metropolitan areas and incorporates salary, bonus, and benefits data. This breadth ensures that HR teams can confidently benchmark compensation against a representative sample of the market.

How were the jobs included in the CompAnalyst data set selected?

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The initial list of jobs in CompAnalyst was created by Salary.com’s team of compensation consultants. The list is based on the most commonly benchmarked jobs and those for which reliable information is available. In addition, Salary.com continually collects data from our corporate clients, who identify specific jobs and job families they believe should be included. Each year, Salary.com updates and continuously supplements all its data with its own new and external surveys.

How often are new job added to CompAnalyst data set?

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Salary.com adds new jobs and job families to CompAnalyst on a monthly basis. If there are certain jobs or job families that are not in CompAnalyst that you think are important for inclusion, please contact your Customer Success Team to ask for those jobs or families to be added. If sufficient data exists, the job will be added over time.

How does pay differ based on industry?

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Different industries have different pay philosophies and pay practices. Across industries, however, certain jobs require the same skills and experience and command the same (or similar) compensation levels. Traditionally, administrative and lower-paying jobs were the most common jobs in this category. More recently, some technical jobs have also become in universal demand, and therefore, the compensation practices have somewhat leveled out across most industries.

How does pay differ based on company size?

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Pay differs by company size as a reflection of the scope of responsibilities and, to a lesser degree, the maturity and cash position of the organization. The scope of responsibility is generally limited to more senior people and those whose responsibilities are significantly broader and more encompassing in larger organizations. The pay ranges for other employees generally show less variance based on company size.

How does pay differ based on geography?

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Pay differs by geography as a reflection of the cost of living in the geography and the market demand for a given job. However, the difference in pay between the two locations is not always the same as the cost of living.

Organizations will pay more to attract the right people, and people will take less pay to work in a desirable place. Also, the more money a person makes, the less he or she is affected by the local cost of living.

Much of a person’s compensation is used for items not affected by cost-of-living numbers (e.g., cars, boats, vacation homes, college tuition, savings, investments, etc.). For this reason, the geographic pay differentials have less impact on higher-paying jobs.

Not all jobs have significant changes in pay from one industry to another or from one company size to another (e.g., secretary). How does CompAnalyst account for this?

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The analysis embedded in CompAnalyst takes into account the relative impact industry has on the pay practices for each of the more than 16,000 reported benchmark jobs. Each job and scope factor combination has its own series of factors derived from actual reported matches. By looking at CompAnalyst’s industry comparison report, you will see how industry affects pay for a given job.

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