COMPENSATION MANAGEMENT

Transform Compensation Data into Strategic Action

CompAnalyst® combines reliable market data with intuitive compensation software, helping you price jobs, build pay ranges, model scenarios, and evaluate pay practices—so you make confident, competitive, and fair pay decisions.

Transform Compensation Data into Strategic Action

Your Problems, Our Solutions

Complexity

Managing compensation data across spreadsheets, surveys, and systems drains time and creates inconsistency. Without a unified view, it’s difficult to maintain alignment with your organization’s pay philosophy. CompAnalyst simplifies compensation management by centralizing market data, analytics, and modeling in one system—so you can move from manual work to strategic decisions.

Inefficiency

Managing compensation requires more than data — it demands software that streamlines every step of the pay process. CompAnalyst gives you the tools to build and adjust salary structures, model ranges, and support consistent, equitable pay decisions at scale. With automated job matching and reliable market benchmarks built in, you can confidently ensure competitive and defensible pay across your organization.

Risk

When compensation decisions are disconnected from market reality, you risk losing talent or paying unsustainably — undermining your competitive compensation efforts. CompAnalyst gives you reliable market intelligence and modelling tools so you can build a defensible pay philosophy and stay ahead of your competitors.

"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 spreadsheet."

Amanda Williamson, M.A., SHRM-CP, Talent Management Director

Premise Health

Make Decisions with Confidence

Make Decisions with Confidence

CompAnalyst delivers faster decision-making, and new insights into your pay practices. You can explore new intersections between market, company, and employee data with enhanced data integrations. With powerful tools and streamlined workflows, you can price jobs quickly and access the information you need to get it right.

Fill the Gaps in Market Data

With the industry’s largest HR-reported dataset, CompAnalyst Market Data includes over 800 million market data points covering 16,000+ job titles, 225 industry breakouts and 42,000+ geographies. That means you can price hot jobs, hybrid jobs or niche roles with accuracy — reducing reliance on outdated spreadsheets or incomplete survey slices.

Fill the Gaps in Market Data
Survey Management Made Easy

Survey Management Made Easy

• Simplify survey management, participation, and analysis with a single, centralized library for all your compensation data sources. Streamline your survey selection, data loading, participation, and analysis. Automatically participate in surveys with one-click exports to third-party survey participation templates.

Salary Structures, Simplified

Whether you’re starting from scratch or updating an existing framework, CompAnalyst lets you model, edit, and maintain structures in just a few clicks. Instantly visualize outliers, simulate adjustments, and align pay frameworks across job families, departments, or divisions with minimal effort.

Salary Structures, Simplified
Deliver Reports that Drive Decisions

Deliver Reports that Drive Decisions

With customizable dashboards and automated reporting, CompAnalyst turns complex pay data into actionable insights. Build presentation-ready visuals in seconds to share with HR, finance, or leadership — helping stakeholders understand trends, costs, and the impact of every compensation decision.

AI-Powered Compensation Planning

Introducing AI For HR & Compensation

The CompAnalyst AI Suite combines the power of Salary.com’s trusted CompAnalyst platform with the speed and intelligence of AI. Smart agents help you match jobs, price roles, build salary structures, and get instant answers, supporting you at every stage of the compensation journey. Agents can be tailored to your workflows and use cases, ensuring maximum relevance and impact.

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

Gary Fleenor

VP of Human Resources

Caris Healthcare

"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 stakeholder buy-in."

Director of Compensation & Payroll Services

Christus Health

"With CompAnalyst, we’re able to put everything in one library—including surveys, presentations, budget models, composites, and salary structures. It’s a lot more professional than running to Excel all the time."

Joe Winkler

MSA, PHR, Compensation & HR Analytics Manager

MSU Federal Credit Union

"CompAnalyst allows us to be fully transparent and helps us show that we’re invested in our employees and making our employees’ lives better. We don’t have to do any guess work and actually have processes built out for everything compensation-related now."

Gary Fleenor

VP of Human Resources

Caris Healthcare

"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 stakeholder buy-in."

Director of Compensation & Payroll Services

Christus Health

"With CompAnalyst, we’re able to put everything in one library—including surveys, presentations, budget models, composites, and salary structures. It’s a lot more professional than running to Excel all the time."

Joe Winkler

MSA, PHR, Compensation & HR Analytics Manager

MSU Federal Credit Union

"CompAnalyst allows us to be fully transparent and helps us show that we’re invested in our employees and making our employees’ lives better. We don’t have to do any guess work and actually have processes built out for everything compensation-related now."

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a compensation management system?

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A compensation management system like CompAnalyst streamlines every step of compensation planning—from job pricing to pay analysis—helping organizations make faster, fairer, and more consistent pay decisions. It replaces manual spreadsheets with centralized data, dashboards, and automated workflows, supporting a stronger compensation strategy.

Why is a compensation management system important?

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A modern compensation management system streamlines every aspect of pay planning—job pricing, salary structures, budgeting, and equity analysis. Without one, HR teams rely on spreadsheets and manual updates that create errors and inefficiencies. CompAnalyst replaces those processes with a centralized, data-driven platform that empowers teams to make faster, fairer, and more accurate pay decisions.

How does compensation management support a strong compensation strategy?

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An effective compensation strategy connects your pay decisions to your organization’s goals, values, and talent priorities. CompAnalyst enables HR leaders to analyze market trends, model pay adjustments and maintain internal equity—ensuring your compensation strategy remains both competitive and sustainable.

What makes CompAnalyst different from other compensation management tools?

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Unlike basic HRIS modules, CompAnalyst is purpose-built for compensation management. It delivers trusted HR-reported market data, advanced analytics, and customizable workflows—helping you make faster, more accurate pay decisions and improve organizational trust in compensation outcomes.

Who benefits most from implementing CompAnalyst?

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Organizations of all sizes—particularly those managing complex or fast-growing workforces—benefit from CompAnalyst’s integrated compensation management system. HR and compensation professionals gain efficiency and confidence, while business leaders gain visibility into data that supports fair pay and long-term compensation strategy success.

Organizations Getting It Right

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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
... and much more!

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