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Get Pay Right®
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Pay decisionsbuilt to last.

Every compensation decision unified in one trusted platform. Salary.com empowers the future of compensation management with AI you can put to work today, and a vision you can trust for tomorrow. Because the way you pay should power your business. That's what it means to Get Pay Right®. Now introducing Max — our most advanced AI model yet, purpose-built for comp.

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[H4] Trusted by 10,000+ organizations worldwide

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[H3] CompAnalyst

Market data, job pricing, salary structures, and analytics. Everything you need for pay decisions, in one platform.

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[H3] CompXL

Centralized compensation planning that replaces spreadsheet chaos with secure, automated workflows.

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[H3] Data

The data you need to make confident pay decisions, all in one place.

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[H3] Max real-time intelligence

Live market signals and AI-powered insights so every compensation decision is faster and more defensible.

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For HR & compensation teams
HR teams

For employees & job seekers
Employees

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“CompAnalyst AI Suite is proving to be a valuable planning resource. It enables the team to efficiently analyze large volumes of job descriptions that would otherwise take months to sort through manually.”

– Alma Sosa, SHRM-CP, Compensation business partner | Omaha Steaks

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“The Salary.com AI platform is easy to use and intuitive. The pre-baked prompts and insights into competitor pay strategies set it apart from generic AI tools and make it especially valuable for compensation work.”

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“Salary.com has greatly improved our compensation strategy, enhancing pay equity & HR decision-making.”

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“Amazing experience with Salary.com. I will always recommend to other HR professionals.”

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“Comprehensive compensation data and outstanding support make Salary.com a standout tool.”

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COMPENSATION TEAMS
[H3] From spreadsheet chaos to compensation clarity

Automate the manual work. CompAnalyst handles survey participation, job matching, and structure building, so you can focus on strategy, not data entry.

Auto-match jobs to surveys with 95% accuracy using AI
Build and maintain salary structures in hours, not weeks
Identify pay compression and flight risks before they escalate

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HR LEADERS
[H3] Compensation strategy that keeps you competitive

Attract and retain top talent with confidence. Real-time market intelligence and pay equity analytics give you the data to make faster, fairer decisions.

Benchmark roles against market in minutes, not days
Monitor pay equity risk with proactive alerts
Build a compensation philosophy your board can stand behind

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HR GENERALISTS
[H3] Compensation answers without the learning curve

You wear a lot of hats – comp shouldn't slow you down. Get reliable salary data and job descriptions without needing to be an expert.

Price a job in under a minute with guided workflows
Access pre-built job descriptions with skills already mapped
Spend less time on comp, more time on your people

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Introducing Max: Real-Time Intelligence for Every Comp Decision
[H2] Survey data tells you where the market was. Max tells you where it is.

Pay markets move fast — and the tools most teams rely on weren’t built to keep up. Max is the intelligence layer behind Salary.com’s compensation platform, combining trusted HR-reported benchmarks with real-time job posting signals and purpose-built AI that doesn’t just surface insights — it does the work. Max helps compensation teams make faster, more defensible pay decisions.
Built on a proprietary compensation ontology developed over 25 years, Max understands how jobs actually relate — by skills, scope, and substance — so every decision is grounded in up-to-date and contextualized data you can stand behind.

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Total Compensation Management
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Get pay right.

Compensation is complicated. Your software shouldn't be. Our platform brings together trusted market data, compensation management, pay equity analysis, and job descriptions — now with AI agents that help you move faster at every step — so you can stop juggling tools and start making decisions you can stand behind.

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Explore AI

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[H3] AI

Bring AI into every compensation decision. Agents for job descriptions, pay equity, and real-time market data, powered by the taxonomy no one else has.

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Connect employee data with market insights to price jobs, build salary structures, and manage pay across your organization.

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[H3] CompXL

Run merit cycles, bonuses, and equity awards with spreadsheet flexibility and cloud-based control – no more version chaos.

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[H3] JobArchitect

Create, manage, and approve job descriptions from a single hub. Keep your job architecture consistent and audit-ready.

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[H3] PayEquity Suite

Identify pay gaps, model remediation, and monitor equity across your workforce – continuously, not just at audit time.

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[H3] Elevate Pay Communications

Give managers and employees clear, personalized views of compensation so pay conversations are informed, not awkward.

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[H3] Data

Real-time compensation data reported by HR teams, leveled across our taxonomy for clean, consistent benchmarks you can trust the moment you need them.

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[H3] HRIS Integrations

Connect CompAnalyst to your existing HR systems. Keep data flowing without the manual work.

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Introducing Max
[H2] The intelligence layer your platform has been missing.

Survey data tells you where the market was. Max tells you where it is. Built on Salary.com’s proprietary compensation ontology — developed over 25+ years — Max brings real-time job posting signals and purpose-built AI agents into every platform workflow. The result is compensation work that moves faster, produces defensible outputs, and keeps pace with a market that doesn’t wait for your next survey cycle.

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Trusted Data
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Built on data you cancount on.

Every decision in the platform is backed by Salary.com's compensation data: over 10 billion data points from HR-reported and real-time sources, covering 26 countries and 225 industries. It's the foundation that makes everything else work.

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Real-Time Intelligence
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See what competitors are paying right now.

SalaryIQ™ continuously scans job postings and public salary data to show you where the market is heading—so you can adjust before it moves on without you.

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“CompAnalyst, Salary.com's compensation software, has allowed our organization to create a 'one stop shop' for compensation management. Our HR Partners are able to use the tool to view our company's job descriptions and access job and salary structure information. The software has greatly reduced the amount of time we spend on survey management and increased the amount of time we can spend providing strategic direction to the business.”

– Shaun Drawdy, Senior Compensation Analyst | HD Supply

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“CompAnalyst allows us to be fully transparent and help 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.”

– Joe Wrinkler, PHR, HR Analyst and Process Strategist | MSU Federal Credit Union

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“Salary.com's CompAnalyst and JobArchitect is a one-stop-shop for staying up-to-date on market trends and ensuring our jobs are updated with internal content and reflect current market salaries.”

– Liz DiFlorio, Employment Manager | The Ken Blanchard Companies

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Industry Recognition
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Leader in compensation management.

CompAnalyst® earned G2's highest distinction: Leader in Enterprise Compensation Solutions.

Our customers rank us a leader based on our unified platform, flexible configuration, and dedicated support. We're proud of the recognition—but more proud that thousands of HR teams trust us to help them Get Pay Right®

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SOLUTIONS BY ROLE
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Real compensation solutions for your role.

Whether you're solving for industry-specific benchmarks or aligning compensation and recruiting with talent strategy, we support smarter decisions today—and sustainable pay practices for what's next.

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[H2] Find your role.

[H3] Compensation Analyst

Get the data, tools, and benchmarks you need to price jobs accurately and efficiently.

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[H3] Compensation Leader

Design and scale compensation programs that align with business strategy and drive results.

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[H3] HR Generalist

Simplify compensation decisions with trusted data and easy-to-use tools — no specialist required.

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[H3] HR Leader

Build a compensation strategy that supports talent goals, compliance, and organizational growth.

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[H3] Total Rewards Leader

Integrate compensation into a holistic rewards strategy that attracts, retains, and motivates talent.

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[H3] Executive

Make board-ready executive pay decisions with purpose-built benchmarking, planning, and communication tools.

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[H3] Manager

Empower manager-led pay decisions with guided workflows and reliable data to confidently communicate pay to your team.

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Our solutions support compensation and HR professionals across functions and experience levels. Let's talk about your challenges.

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integrations
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Integrate with your systems.

Trusted by thousands of organizations, CompAnalyst® is an all-in-one compensation benchmarking platform that supports your most important asset: your people. Integrate with your HRIS or HCM to keep employee data current and compensation decisions aligned.

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Flexible Integration Options
[H2] Streamlined implementation, built for real-world HR systems.

Integrate CompAnalyst® with your HRIS or HCM to ensure employee data stays accurate, secure, and up to date. We support integrations with any system that offers an open API—even if your platform isn't listed. Salary.com is SOC 2 compliant, certified by the American Institute of CPAs, so your data is protected every step of the way.

Whether you're using native integrations, API, MCP, or flat file, we offer straightforward integration methods so you can choose the approach that fits your technical environment, security requirements, and internal resources.

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[H3] Native integration

Connect CompAnalyst® directly to supported HRIS and HCM platforms with prebuilt, native integrations. Get faster setup and less ongoing maintenance so your compensation insights stay aligned with your source-of-truth systems.

[H3] API integrations

Leverage secure APIs to automatically sync employee and job data between CompAnalyst® and your HRIS or HCM—keeping compensation analysis continuously up to date.

[H3] Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Use Model Context Protocol (MCP) to securely connect compensation data to AI-enabled workflows and tools. MCP enables structured, permissioned access, powering smarter analysis, automation, and decision support across your ecosystem.

[H3] Flat file integration

Upload flat files through our secure portal and let our team handle the processing to ensure clean, current data with minimal effort from your team.

[H3] SOC 2 certified security

Protect sensitive employee and pay data with SOC 2 compliant systems and controls built to meet enterprise security standards.

[H3] HRIS-agnostic design

Integrate with virtually any HRIS or HCM that supports open APIs—no forced system changes or rigid dependencies.

[H3] Always-current data

Eliminate manual updates and outdated spreadsheets by keeping employee records synchronized across systems.

[H3] Expert-led implementation

Work directly with Salary.com specialists who understand compensation data and HR systems—not just integrations.

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[H3] Pre-built survey templates

Use standardized templates aligned to leading survey providers to reduce setup time, minimize errors, and ensure consistent submissions.

[H3] Embedded survey workflows

Complete and submit surveys directly within CompAnalyst®. Leave behind spreadsheets, offline proofs, and version control issues.

[H3] Repeatable year-over-year cycles

Carry forward prior-year data and participation settings to maintain consistency and reduce effort across survey cycles.

[H3] Data as a Service (DaaS)

Leverage Salary.com's CompAnalyst Market Data, Job Posting, Skills, and labor market statistics datasets using DaaS APIs for commercial use or internal integration.

Add accurate salary ranges to job postings to attract the best talent and comply with pay transparency legislation.
Get real compensation insights for use in internal products and for consulting engagements.
Build new or enhance current product offerings with a reputable job and skills taxonomy.

We prioritize developer convenience with comprehensive documentation to support your integration process. To start building, visit developers.salary.com for detailed endpoint and field information suited to your unique needs.

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[H3] CompAnalyst API

Tailored for CompAnalyst and JobArchitect clients, these APIs facilitate direct interaction with core CompAnalyst and JobArchitect objects, offering a RESTful interface for comprehensive client integrations.

We prioritize developer convenience with comprehensive documentation to support your integration process. For CompAnalyst API credentials, contact your Customer Success Manager.

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[H2] Are you ready to get pay right?

See how CompAnalyst® integrates with your systems to simplify compensation management and support confident pay decisions.

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