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What is Salary.com?

As the leading provider of compensation data, software, and analytics, Salary.com empowers organizations to Get Pay Right™ with trusted market data and intuitive tools. Salary.com integrates seamlessly with ADP, UKG, Workday, and more—streamlining compensation workflows, reducing manual effort, and improving data accuracy across your existing HR and payroll systems. Serving over 30,000 survey participants, 10,000+ software subscribers, and 45 million employees worldwide, Salary.com helps HR teams stay aligned with market trends and make confident, data-driven pay decisions. CompAnalyst®: With CompAnalyst, you get the industry's most accurate data and the insights you need to make pay decisions with confidence. Our solution addresses the entire compensation process, helping you quickly price jobs with unparalleled accuracy and analyze your compensation pay practices. We’ve combined AI to streamline matching with our innovative best-in-class UI into the simplest, easiest to use compensation management solution on the market. CompAnalyst® Market Data: Gain access to the industry’s most reliable HR-reported compensation data. Easily market price jobs based on location, industry, company size, and job complexity while ensuring competitive pay for all roles. With over 800 million market data points and 16,000 unique job titles, CompAnalyst® Market Data provides unparalleled accuracy in pricing even the most complex roles. JobArchitect®: Transform how you create and manage job descriptions. Use AI Writing Assistant to craft tailored content for any role. Leverage 5,000+ expert-vetted, descriptions from the CompAnalyst library for accuracy and market alignment. Standardize with customizable templates, promote inclusivity with Bias Check, and streamline approval—all in a few clicks. Build a strong job architecture, make informed hiring decisions, and match the right candidates to the right roles. Skills Library: The industry’s most comprehensive, curated job skills database, covering 16,000+ job titles across 18 industries and 26 job families. Integrated with JobArchitect to align skills with job profiles, identify training needs, and close skills gaps. Supports skills-based hiring, upskilling and reskilling initiatives, and empowers L&D teams to develop career pathways, while building robust job architecture frameworks. CompAnalyst® Pay Equity Suite: Achieve and maintain pay equity with the industry’s only true end-to-end solution for identifying, resolving, and preventing pay equity issues. Conduct defensible analyses, generate detailed reports, and guide data-driven adjustments. Intuitive dashboards help identify pay gaps and understand pay drivers. CompXL Compensation Planning: Simplify merit raises, bonuses, incentives, and total rewards planning. Retain Excel’s flexibility while cutting planning time by 75% and reducing errors with centralized, collaborative workflows. Built-in multi-currency support empowers global organizations to manage compensation planning across regions. SalaryIQ: Our global real-time job posting solution, SalaryIQ, provides unparalleled competitive intelligence by continuously scanning job boards, company career sites, and other publicly available data. Uncover how competitors are hiring in your industry and location, what roles they are prioritizing, and how they are structuring pay. Stay updated with trending job data to align your offers with the latest global market trends, ensuring you’re always in line with what talent demands.

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Salary.com is the leading SaaS provider of cloud-based compensation market data and analytics. Salary.com delivers continually updated, reliable market pay data and career content to hundreds of thousands of consumers each year. The company is committed to helping organizations drive company success by aligning compensation practices with recruiting, performance, and development initiatives through easy-to-access data and meaningful insights.


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Year Founded
1999
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Waltham, MA
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Salary.com® remains the technology leader in providing employee compensation data, software, and services to enterprises, small businesses, and individuals. Our enterprise software helps companies manage their compensation expenditures with real-time, decision-ready data and analytical tools. The Salary.com website is one of the most widely recognized destinations for those seeking reliable information about employee pay levels and compensation-related best practices, trends, and policies.

The Salary.com Team have decades of experience in the compensation industry. It’s all we do. We build and enhance cloud-based software around our deep compensation domain knowledge to help our customers win the war for talent by simplifying the connections between people and pay. Salary.com's proven technology is integrated with actionable data and content, empowering customers to make the best decisions about pay and help them to attract, motivate, reward and retain top performers. For more information, visit www.salary.com.


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Ashley M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Very Helpful Tool"
The ability for us to easily compare industry salaries to our comp structure has made the difference between overpaying and employee retention/hiring.
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Intuitive Interface"
I've found Salary.com to be a very useful and straightforward platform for researching compensation data. The interface is clean and intuitive, mak...
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Have used CompAnalyst at 3 companies..."
CompAnalyst has up to date information that is industry, company size and geographical data.

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Salary.com Demo - CompAnalyst Reporting and Analytics
New smarter reporting for smarter pay decisions. Easy to use, in-module access (Jobs, Employees, Composites), real-time and point-in-time data. And much more!
Salary.com Demo - CompAnalyst Market Data
Search through CompAnalyst robust job library with over 15,000 unique job titles, compare jobs, create hybrid jobs, and save to lists for unparalleled market pricing accuracy.
Salary.com Demo - Smart Market Pricing Composites
Create market composites based on survey cuts from CompAnalyst Market Data, and your third-party surveys.
Salary.com Demo - JobArchitect: A Single Place for Job Building
Create a new job description from scratch, link to one of your existing jobs, or create a draft job if you're not quite ready to make it official!
Salary.com Demo - Process Tracking and Notifications in JobArtchitect
Easily track where your jobs are within the review process and get in-product alerts on job description status, as well as email notifications with one-click access!
Salary.com Demo - Side By Side Editing in JobArtchitect
Compare your jobs while editing them to better understand the relationships and differences between your jobs.

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Senior Consultant
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Salary.com?

What I love the most about using CompAnalyst (Salary.com) is the availability of market data for various market prevalent jobs across different industries and revenue sizes. With the availability to create composites, one could add other survey data subscriptions to the tool to get an overall market prospective. The market data in CompAnalyst is refreshed on a monthly basis and it lists out hot jobs too. The reports you could export are an additional bonus too. The Customer Support team is very responsive as well and is well equipped to address any questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salary.com?

While data for US is quite extensive in CompAnalyst in terms of industry and revenue cuts, but when looking at benchmark data for other countries outside the US, the data is often limited to All Industries / All Revenue data cuts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salary.com solving and how is that benefiting you?

Providing clients with the most up to date information on salary benchmarking for different industries/revenue sizes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alexander Bishop of Salary.com

Thank you for the five-star review, Arshad! We’re happy that you’re leveraging CompAnalyst to gather relevant market data, create composites, and provide clients with up-to-date information on salary benchmarking for different industries and revenue ranges. Regarding your comment on global data, we have IPAS for global data, with over 20+ surveys with specific focuses. Please feel free to reach out to your Customer Success Manager to learn more!

RM
HR Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Salary.com?

The platform is incredibly user-friendly. Within a few clicks, you can easily access detailed salary reports, including median salary ranges, bonuses, benefits, and compensation trends for any job in any geographic area. The salary data is broken down not only by job title but also by location, industry, experience level, and company size. This makes the platform especially useful if you're considering a move to a different city or comparing salaries across various sectors. The level of customization available in the reports means that users can narrow down their search to get exactly the information they need.

Customer service is beyond accommodating!

Overall, I highly recommend Salary.com for anyone looking to get reliable salary information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salary.com?

I have used other platforms with all the bells and whistles at a much hirer price and it was a waste of money as I could never really figure out how to download all my own information (job descriptions, details,) Salary.com is already set up and ready to go so you can filter as needed. Win-Win! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salary.com solving and how is that benefiting you?

Salary negotiations, disgruntled employee, increase avenues, buy in from VIP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alexander Bishop of Salary.com

Thank you for the five-star review, Rene! We’re happy that you are enjoying CompAnalyst to easily access relevant salary ranges, bonuses, benefits, and compensation trends. Many of our customers would agree that a major benefit to the tool is just how easy it is to use. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to your Customer Success Team as they're always happy to assist!

JR
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What do you like best about Salary.com?

Sometimes I am unable to find the exact same title in Salary.Com which is understandable since companies can make up titles as they see fit for their situations. However, Salary.Com is easy to search to find just the right fit. I love that I can customize with experience levels, education levels and other criteria. I also love how, after I customize that criteria, Salary.com will suggest other roles that may be a better fit for the selected criteria. I also like that I can request them to do a custom rate for me if I can't find just the right one. I have 5 geographic cities where we have employees and it is super easy to get a quick comp analysis on one or all areas at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salary.com?

I haven't been able to add my own users. That would be convenient. Maybe I am missing something though and that functionality is there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salary.com solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping us stay in line with today's market across many different job positions. I haven't used the job description management yet but hope to start soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alexander Bishop of Salary.com

Thank you for the five-star review, Jeannie! We are glad that you’re using CompAnalyst to remain in line with today’s market across a variety of job positions. Regarding adding more users, there are two main user types, “Company Administrators” and “HR Regulars.” “Company Administrators” can add, edit, and delete users; while “HR Regulars” are unable to. If you were set up with “HR Regular” access, then that would be the reason why you are unable to add users. If you were set up as a “Company Administrator” and are still having trouble adding new users in the “Users & Roles” section, then I would recommend reaching out to your Customer Success Specialist for assistance in this matter.

John K.
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Director of Talent Acquisition
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Salary.com?

We are currently in the process of adopting Salary.com and have moved from a direct competitor. We have experienced exceptional customer service and patience through the implementation process. We are also happy with the posting data information provided. As of now the program has been extremely easy to utilize and been a great tool for salary information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salary.com?

As of now things have been smooth. I would have liked to see the demo of the product to be more interactive and a "guided" use as it was a little overwhelming during the demo. Despite that I would still recommend any colleagues in need of salary information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salary.com solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are utilizing salary.com to assist in evaluating our internal teammates compared to market data. We utilize with our corp development to provide feedback regarding salaries in areas we are looking to grow into. We utilize on annual basis to determine our salary offerings are competitive in the market. Doing so allows us to be intentional around our salary budgeting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alexander Bishop of Salary.com

Thank you for the five-star review, John! We are happy that you’re finding relevant market data in CompAnalyst to evaluate your internal teammates and ensure your salary offerings are competitive in today’s market. I recommend checking out our Resource Center in the Community. There you will find a whole host of short and long form demo videos, how-to guides, and other training materials!

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
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What do you like best about Salary.com?

Customer service and professional services support has been excellent in the 10 years that I have worked with Salary.com. CompAnalyst is a cloud-based industry leading compensation management tool suite that has all of the functionality that a compensation professional would be looking for, from basic market pricing to regression calculations for executive jobs. Salary.com continues to add functionality to the tool suite including a recent AI-powered intelligent job posting scraping tool, compensation planning tool, as well as enhancements to their signature market pricing and compensation management core product. The CA tool suite is highly configurable and very easy to understand, and the professional services team is very responsive and quick to assist with questions or requests. The CompAnalyst Market Data has continued to expand and is a very capable rival to some of the general industry surveys produced by the big consulting firms. The process for getting third party survey data loaded into the tool is very easy, and the process for creating market pricing composites is equally straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salary.com?

The only drawbacks that I have found to the CompAnalyst tool are that for the most part you cannot use your browser's back button, and need to click on specific links within the page to navigate. This is only a minor complaint, but new users may need to take note. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salary.com solving and how is that benefiting you?

Salary.com provides an integrated compensation management tool suite that will enable our organization to manage job descriptions, survey data, create market pricing composites and in general, help us pay our employees more competitively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alexander Bishop of Salary.com

Thank you for the five-star review! We are glad that you are leveraging CompAnalyst to manage job descriptions, survey data, create market pricing composites, and help pay your employees more competitively. We are also happy that you have found our customer and professional services teams excellent in the 10 years that you have worked with Salary.com! Regarding your comment on navigation, we pride ourselves on having the most secure compensation management and data solutions in the industry. This feature of not leveraging the back button in the browser was something purposely implemented to improve data security by avoiding data caching in the browser.

Verified User in Real Estate
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What do you like best about Salary.com?

Salary.com has access to a wide network of compensation statistics that come directly from payroll so they can be relied on. They have a tiered model that you can add on to the data requested based on your needs, so you have more control over what data you are paying for. Their filters allow you to select criteria like industry and region to focus your searches. The interface is easy and intuitive. Customer support has been helpful each time I inquired. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salary.com?

Some of the lesser used job titles can be challenging to source. With that said I have been able to find a proxy that approximates the title I was looking for, closely enough to be useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salary.com solving and how is that benefiting you?

Providing reliable compensation data that can be trusted. The internet has many free tools that are unreliable sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alexander Bishop of Salary.com

Thank you for the review! We are glad that you’re using CompAnalyst to gather reliable and trusted compensation data. Many of our customers would agree that a major benefit to the tool is just how easy it is to use! I recommend looking at the job description if you have trouble finding the right role. You can look under alternative job titles which should give you more flexibility for similar jobs. Then, you can look at each job description to create a hybrid job to match to your company jobs responsibilities. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to your Customer Success Team with any questions you may have!

Verified User in Retail
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What do you like best about Salary.com?

The comps are pretty good, I work in a niche industry and there are some jobs we have which aren't reflected in the available catalog but I can appreciate the great value from the ones that are. The system is fairly easy to navigate and there are plenty of features to adjust in order to dial in.

I was not here for implementation so there is not much I can speak on in terms of ease of implementation.

As HR I use the service frequently to review comps. It's been simple to integrate into daily use coming from somewhere which didn't have it.

I was prompted to write this response due to the really awesome experience I had with a customer service rep- Al F. (I won't use the full name for security reasons but I'm happy to name her internally). She resolved the issues caused by the previous rep and got everything done in literally 5 minutes. She's a true professional! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salary.com?

Their customer service needs more Al F.'s and less Carols.

Expand into moire niche job markets.

Less marketing pop ups for other services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salary.com solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Salary.com for comp work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alexander Bishop of Salary.com

Thank you for the review. We’re happy that you’re leveraging CompAnalyst for your company’s compensation needs. Many of our customers would agree that a major advantage to the platform is just how easy it is to use! As for the pop-ups your experiencing, we do this to let you know about new features, but we do appreciate you not wanting it come up every time you go to the site. There is a small check box in the bottom left-hand corner that says don’t show me again. This should help solve that problem!

Karina W.
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Global Head of HR
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Salary.com?

It is a fantastic resource for anyone seeking reliable and accurate compensation data. Its intuitive platform offers a wealth of tools that help users understand market trends, benchmark salaries, and make informed career or business decisions.

One of the standout features that I like is customizable reports, which provide detailed insights tailored to specific industries, roles, and locations. Whether you’re an HR professional conducting salary benchmarking or an individual negotiating a raise, the data is always comprehensive and easy to digest.

I also appreciate the platform’s user-friendly interface, which makes navigating the wealth of information straightforward. The salary wizard, in particular, is an excellent tool for quickly accessing job-specific pay ranges.

Additionally, Salary.com goes beyond just numbers— the cost-of-living calculator adds immense value to users.

Overall, Salary.com is a trusted resource for anyone interested in compensation trends and pay equity. And I loved the contact with Kaitlin!!

Highly recommended! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salary.com?

I had some hiccups with logging in but all good, resolved with Kaitlin's help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salary.com solving and how is that benefiting you?

Salary.com provides tools to identify and address pay compression by analyzing compensation data and ensuring equitable pay structures. I also see that this tool analytics help organizations assess and rectify pay disparities, promoting transparency and trust within the workforce. It also offers comprehensive market data, enabling businesses to benchmark salaries accurately and attract top talent. It helped me facilitate the administration of merit raises, bonuses, and other incentives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alexander Bishop of Salary.com

Karina, thank you for the 5-star review. We are happy that you have leveraged CompAnalyst’s customizable reports, wide variety of tools, and user-friendly interface to thrive in understanding market trends, benchmarking salaries, and making informed decisions! Thank you for your comments about the Customer Success Team. We pride ourselves on the excellent service that we have and are always striving to make your experience the best it can be.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
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What do you like best about Salary.com?

I like the fact that you're able to scope the compensation and roles specific to your industry. You have access to job descriptions and competencies, which are extremely helpful, especially when thinking about new roles. You can upload all of your existing job titles and compare similar roles, industries, etc. The customer support team has been fantastic. My direct customer success specialist has been amazing!! The implementation meetings were so helpful. The system is easy to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salary.com?

I will say there are a lot of pop ups that come up when you're moving around the system to take advantage of other resources within the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salary.com solving and how is that benefiting you?

This product will support us creating salary bands, having industry standards, and aligning our compensation modules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alexander Bishop of Salary.com

Thank you for the five-star review! We are glad that you are using CompAnalyst to scope compensation and roles specific to your industry and with help creating salary bands. Many of our customers would agree that a major benefit to the tool is just how easy it is to use! Thank you for your comment about the Customer Success Team. We pride ourselves on the excellent service that they provide as it’s a major competitive advantage!

LH
Human Resources Manager
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What do you like best about Salary.com?

You can easily access accurate and up-to-date salary information. This powerful tool offers us a variety of helpful features that will greatly benefit how we post jobs to attract potential candidates for hire. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salary.com?

We partnered just over a year ago. We haven't found anything yet to dislike about salary.com Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salary.com solving and how is that benefiting you?

We believe that this resource has help us greatly enhance our understanding of compensation and pay structure and help me make as HR Manager/Director informed decisions about whether or not the offerings we are making are within the scope of the job posting information, the skill certifications required for the position, and the alignment of the labor market pricing for internal and external hiring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alexander Bishop of Salary.com

Thank you for the five-star review, Loustella! We’re glad to hear you have greatly enhanced your understanding of compensation and pay structure with the help of CompAnalyst. Many of our customers would agree that a major benefit to the tool is the variety of helpful features that benefit how you post jobs to attract top talent. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to your Customer Success Team as they’re always happy to assist!