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FAQs
Here are some of our most often-asked questions.
Salary.com was at the forefront of compensation data when it was founded in 1999. We never lost sight of our mission to provide comprehensive compensation solutions that empower organizations to get pay right. More than 20 years later, we are still at it. We have only gotten better with each decade of experience. We feel confident we are providing the best compensation solutions to meet the demands of a global, dynamic marketplace in the most comprehensive and usable way.
In addition to industry-leading compensation solutions, Salary.com offers job description and job skills management tools to our customers. We also offer a comprehensive skills and competency model. Everything we do focuses on pay equity. Our proven tools help organizations as they begin the shift into a more transparent pay process. For more information click here: [https://www.salary.com/business/compensation-software/]
Salary.com’s industry leading, trusted data comes from three main sources. First, the company’s proprietary CompAnalyst® Market Data is a comprehensive source of market pricing information offering access to HR-reported compensation market data from more than 15,000 unique job titles across 225 industries in the US. Salary.com also provides trusted, up-to-date data from its Compdata Surveys. These data points offer unparalleled information on key reward elements including base salary, incentives, and fixed allowances. And finally, Salary.com offers HR-reported global compensation data including base salary, incentives, allowances, and merit increase budgets from over 100 countries. Combined, Salary.com offers the most comprehensive and accurate global compensation information on the market.
Our software is used by more than 15,000 HR, compensation, talent, and recruitment professionals across 225 industries. Our customers use our tools for compensation benchmarking, job description management and job skills management. Our biggest growth market is related to pay equity. Our industry leading tools provide the solutions companies need to meet the increasingly competitive hiring market.
We have been doing this for more than 20 years. With our decades of experience, and our highly skilled group of compensation experts, we believe we provide the most comprehensive hiring management solutions on the market. Not only do we use our experience to offer detailed compensation information, we also track trends as they are emerging in the marketplace. If our customers have needs, we’ve already got a solution.
iWhen we say we are a trusted source of salary data it is because we use HR-reported data - not crowd-sourced data like our competitors. In addition, our consulting group brings decades of experience in analyzing data. This enables us to identify emerging trends and offer actionable solutions to nearly every compensation, hiring and retention need.
Salary.com offers compensation information to both individuals and businesses. The solutions for individuals are available through our Salary Wizard. The information available is accurate and high -level. For employers, CompAnalyst® Market Data is the industry’s largest and most reliable HR-reported source of up-to-date market pricing. It offers 800 million market data points, 15K unique job titles, 27K compensable factors, 225 industry breakouts, 42K geographies, and 21 countries.
Employee retention is more critical now than ever. Smart organizations know that employees are demanding pay equity, and it is critical to maintaining and growing a successful workforce. In fact, the future of compensation and employee satisfaction is an equitable compensation framework. Salary.com is leading the charge to help organizations analyze wage information and comparable jobs, enabling them to regularly benchmark compensation in a comprehensive and transparent way. Not only is it smart business – it's the right thing to do.
Absolutely. The free SalaryWizard is backed by 20 years of compensation expertise and trusted data. We believe in pay equity and pay transparency. Offering compensation information for free to individuals looking to start a new job or to negotiate a pay rase is part of our mission to draw back the curtain on pay. For those individuals looking for more detailed reports with additional information, Salary.com offers the ability to purchase a Personal Salary Report. For more information click here.
Yes! We have customer references available to speak about Salary.com across a variety of industries. Let us know what you are looking for.
We have experts available to discuss any topics related to compensation and hiring trends. Some examples include: pay equity, trends in compensation across industries, pay transparency, future of work, the role of compensation in DEI, the Bureau of Labor Statics monthly report and what it means for employers, how companies are managing salary budgets in a recession, executive compensation, merit and bonus salary budgets, and much more. Just reach out if you are working on a story. We can help.
Yes! Our compensation experts have decades of experience and regularly speak at events across the country. For more information check out our Speaker’s Bureau [https://www.salary.com/speakers/].

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