One trusted view of the market. Survey benchmarks and real-time signals— together.

Compensation surveys collect and validate pay data from participating organizations, providing benchmarks that HR and compensation teams use to set competitive, equitable pay ranges. Survey data is peer-reported and validated by compensation professionals - making it defensible for board reporting, pay equity analysis, and regulatory compliance.

Compdata Surveys provide access to peer-reported industry survey data across 14 U.S. industries with quarterly updates, hyper-local benchmarks, and total rewards visibility. Compdata Max adds real-time market intelligence on top: live pay signals from active job postings via SalaryIQ, competitor pay intelligence, automated data matching, custom peer group creation and shared dashboards. It's the difference between knowing what companies reported and knowing what the market looks like right now.

Compdata Max is built for HR leaders, compensation leaders, and total rewards managers who need defensible benchmarks and real-time market context, especially organizations navigating pay transparency legislation, competing for hard-to-fill roles, or managing compensation across diverse industries and geographies where survey data alone doesn't move fast enough.

Compdata Max layers live job posting signals from SalaryIQ on top of validated Compdata survey benchmarks. Survey data provides the validated foundation - what organizations actually paid. Real-time signals show what competitors are advertising right now. Together, they give your team both the defensibility of peer-reported benchmarks and the speed of live market data, so you can pressure-test ranges, fill gaps for hard-to-match roles, and respond to shifts without waiting for the next survey cycle.

Compdata Max combines two types of data: (1) Compdata Surveys - peer-reported, validated compensation data from participating organizations across 14 U.S. industries, refreshed quarterly; and (2) SalaryIQ real-time intelligence - pay and demand signals from active job postings across geographies, roles, and skills, covering the last 60 days of activity.

Generic AI tools don't understand compensation methodology, job leveling frameworks, or the difference between advertised pay and validated benchmarks. Compdata Max is built on Salary.com's proprietary compensation framework,combining structured survey data with real-time intelligencein a way that's defensible, consistent, and designed for how compensation professionals actually work.

Participating in Compdata Max is straightforward: your team submits compensation data using a simple, flexible process with discounts and expert guidance at every step. Dedicated specialists help with data preparation, validation, and analysis - so participation delivers value back to your organization, not just data out the door.