Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 100 → 13 of 115
2 categories · Named, not rankedPayscale MarketPay
4Judge labels
1First choices
0Negative labels
3 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
2 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Payscale MarketPay was named 2 times in Compensation benchmarkin and 1 other category, where Pave led with 19%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market110 of 148
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprise14 of 130
2%1 label
under the label threshold
In compensation benchmarkin · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Payscale MarketPay for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation benchmarking data | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 110 of 148 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 19% | |
| Compensation management | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 94 of 140 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Payscale MarketPay held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Compensation benchmarkin · by segment
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation benchmarkin | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 110 of 148, unchanged |
| Compensation management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 94 of 140, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Payscale MarketPay across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Payscale MarketPay across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained1 label1
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
No positive label carried a quote.
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Payscale MarketPay, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Payscale MarketPay was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Payscale MarketPay, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Payscale MarketPay was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Payscale MarketPay. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 4 of the 4 answers that named Payscale MarketPay and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
ravio.com4
comprehensive.io3
peoplemanagingpeople.com3
captivateiq.com2
compensation-iq.com2
deel.com2
g2.com2
gartner.com2
learn.g2.com2
pin.com2
Twenty-four of the twenty-four domain citations in answers naming Payscale MarketPay came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
payscale.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Payscale MarketPay takes 0% of first choices and Pave takes 19%.ShowHide
Search and answers
payscale.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Payscale MarketPay takes 0% of first choices and Pave takes 19%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “benchmarking providers”
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not in the top ten
Position for “salary benchmarking data provider”
–
not in the top ten
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,408,989 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 246,929 · 8,738 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 42,145
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 4 clicks and $26 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 110 of 148 in compensation benchmarkin
Segment leader
19%
Pave
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 4 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 4 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on payscale.com
219,024
subdomains included
Content
217,386
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
42 · 39
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 216,972 | undated | HRIS and HCM platforms, Performance management | ||
| News or press | 164 | undated | Pay equity, Compensation management | ||
| Conference or event | 130 | undated | Pay equity, HRIS and HCM platforms | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 60 | undated | Pay equity | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 19 | undated | HRIS and HCM platforms, Compensation management | ||
| Comparison | 15 | undated | |||
| Case study | 14 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 12 | 0 | 2026-05-14 | Pay equity |
Most recent
- 2026-05-14Readiness checklist know right level transparency org 2 template or tool
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page payscale.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name HRIS and HCM platforms (22); 0 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Payscale MarketPay
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Payscale MarketPay; a claim can dispute any of them.
Payscale / PayScale MarketPay 1Payscale/MarketPay 1
Follow Payscale MarketPay
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Payscale MarketPay is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Payscale MarketPay is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Marketpay is the enterprise compensation solution global compensation professionals trust for reliable market data and actionable insights.
- For
- global compensation professionals
- Certifications
- SOC2GDPRCCPATX-RAMPSOC 2
- Customers named
- VistaInteger HoldingsDeltekLindsay ClayborneCardata
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting
What Payscale MarketPay's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: payscale.com/products/software/marketpay, payscale.com, payscale.com/compensation-trends/pricing-hybrid-jobs, payscale.com/about/security, payscale.com/products/data. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Payscale MarketPay's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Payscale MarketPay, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Payscale MarketPay by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Payscale MarketPay is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Payscale MarketPay, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.