Our company, customers, and data
Salary.com has built the industry’s most trusted source for compensation data, software, and AI. Read on to learn about the scale behind the tools HR and compensation teams use to price jobs, build salary structures, and make better pay decisions.
Our company
Salary.com has operated as an independent compensation data and software company for nearly three decades.
Year founded
Salary.com has published compensation market data continuously since 1999, giving customers 27 years of pricing history and methodology refinement.
Global employees
Compensation analysts, survey operations staff, data scientists, and product teams working across offices in the United States and China.
The people we serve
Compensation teams at organizations of every size rely on Salary.com to price jobs and manage pay programs.
Active customers
Organizations across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, higher education, and the public sector run their compensation programs on Salary.com.
Total platform users
Compensation professionals, HR business partners, and people leaders working inside CompAnalyst and JobArchitect.
Five-star G2 reviews
Verified customers have left 700 five-star reviews on G2, contributing to an average rating of 4.4 out of 5.
Our platform and data
Salary.com combines employer-reported survey data with real-time job posting intelligence, so comp teams can price any job against what companies actually pay and against what the market advertises right now.
Leveled job titles you can market price
Every title maps to a defined career level, so comp teams price the right scope of work instead of matching on job title alone.
Learn moreOrganizations participating in our salary surveys
Employers submit their own pay data to Salary.com surveys, so benchmarks reflect what companies actually pay rather than self-reported or scraped estimates alone.
Learn moreUnique data points in our database
Individual pay observations covering base salary, bonus, total cash compensation, and equity across jobs, geographies, and industries.
Learn moreIndustries with market data
Benchmarks segment by industry, so a nurse manager in acute care prices against acute care instead of against a national blended average.
Learn moreCountries with market data
Market pricing coverage for organizations managing compensation across borders.
Learn moreSkills and competencies in our taxonomy
A structured skills library that connects job architecture to pay, including definitions and behavioral indicators across the fully developed skill set.
Learn moreCompensable factors you can use when market pricing
Adjustable inputs such as experience, education, skills, and management responsibilities. Used to evaluate a position’s value and adjust market pay rates.
Learn moreJob postings scraped for real-time intelligence
Salary.com collects and normalizes job postings so comp teams can see advertised pay, posting volume, and hiring demand as the market moves.
Learn moreCompanies represented in real-time intelligence
Posting data spans millions of employers, which lets customers benchmark against direct competitors and local labor markets, not just national averages.
Learn moreFrequently asked questions
Salary.com was founded in 1999. The company has published compensation market data continuously for 27 years, and it operates today as an independent compensation data and software provider with more than 400 employees across offices in the United States and China.
More than 10,000 organizations actively use Salary.com to price jobs and manage their compensation programs. Customers span healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, higher education, the public sector, and more.
Salary.com serves more than 200,000 total users across its platform. Those users include compensation professionals, HR business partners, consultants, and people leaders who price jobs, build salary structures, and manage job architecture.
Salary.com gives customers 1.4 million leveled job titles they can market price. Every title maps to a defined career level, so compensation teams benchmark the right scope of work instead of matching on job title alone.
More than 30,000 organizations participate in Salary.com salary surveys. These employers submit their own pay data directly, which means Salary.com benchmarks reflect what companies actually pay rather than relying on self-reported or scraped estimates alone.
Salary.com maintains more than 10 billion unique compensation data points. The database covers base salary, bonus, total cash compensation, and equity across 225 industries, and customers can refine any benchmark using more than 32,000 compensable factors such as experience, education, skills, and management responsibilities.
Salary.com supports organizations managing compensation across borders by providing salary survey benchmarks from over 100 countries, aggregate market data from 29 countries, and real-time job posting intelligence from 46 countries.
Salary.com builds its real-time intelligence by collecting and normalizing job postings from across the open web. The data set includes 180,935,910 job postings representing 3,453,603 companies, which lets compensation teams see advertised pay, posting volume, and hiring demand as the market moves.
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