Small business▼−1Since September 2026: 9% → 8%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
8%from 9% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 12 pointsRank 2 → 3 of 143
3 categories · RankedSalary.com CompAnalyst
94Judge labels
13First choices
9Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
9% in Compensation benchmarkin for mid-market buyers
Rank 4 of 148 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 4% of its 24 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Salary.com CompAnalyst →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business4 of 155
7%32 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market4 of 148
9%24 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise19 of 130
0%15 labels
accepted challenger
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 Salary.com CompAnalyst 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 | 9% | 4 of 148 | 4% | 24 | accepted challenger | ▲+4Since September 2026: 2% → 6%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Compensation management | Compensation and total rewards | 4% | 12 of 140 | 0% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18% | ▼−1Since September 2026: 5% → 4%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Pay equity | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 31 of 73 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Syndio at 12% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Salary.com CompAnalyst held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Compensation benchmarkin · by segment
Mid-market▲+4Since September 2026: 2% → 6%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 9 → 6 of 138
Enterprise▼−5Since September 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 5% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 6 → 17 of 115
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation benchmarkin | 2% | 6% | ▲+4Since September 2026: 2% → 6%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 9 → 4 of 148 |
| Compensation management | 5% | 4% | ▼−1Since September 2026: 5% → 4%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 7 → 12 of 140 |
| Pay equity | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 42 → 31 of 73 |
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 Salary.com CompAnalyst 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 Salary.com CompAnalyst 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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
Direct34 labels5
Paraphrase17 labels4
Comparative8 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained19 labels3
Scale-constrained13 labels1
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative94 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 14 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.
“Best all-around validated survey for mid-size: Compdata Max / Salary.com. Explicitly called out as best all-around for mid-sized companies.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Compensation benchmarkin · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Best Balance of Depth & Accessibility ... Salary.com or Mercer will give you the broad industry coverage you need” Kimi K2 · Compensation benchmarkin · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Frequently cited as best for budget-conscious companies, offering reliable market data and benchmarking at a lower cost.” MiniMax M2.5 · Compensation management · budget prompt · first choice
“Prioritize platforms like Comprehensive, Figures.hr, Salary.com CompAnalyst, Paycom, or Ravio” Grok 4.1 Fast · Compensation management · scale prompt · first choice
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.
“Avoid expensive enterprise solutions like PayScale (~$12,000+/year) or Salary.com” MiniMax M2.5 · Compensation benchmarkin · budget prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Salary.com CompAnalyst, over the 94 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salary.com CompAnalyst was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Salary.com CompAnalyst, over the 94 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salary.com CompAnalyst 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 Salary.com CompAnalyst. 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 90 of the 94 answers that named Salary.com CompAnalyst and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
ravio.com68
comprehensive.io50
peoplemanagingpeople.com43
pin.com41
g2.com39
figures.hr33
salarycube.com32
deel.com30
salary.comYour site29
captivateiq.com27
363 of the 392 domain citations in answers naming Salary.com CompAnalyst came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
salary.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Salary.com CompAnalyst takes 9% of first choices and Pave takes 19%.ShowHide
Search and answers
salary.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Salary.com CompAnalyst takes 9% 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”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 260 a month (“salary.com companalyst”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,069,118 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 309,829 · 8,003 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 30,869
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 115 clicks and $1,642 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
9%
rank 4 of 148 in compensation benchmarkin
Segment leader
19%
Pave
- First choices
- 13 across its categories
- Named in
- 94 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 90 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 salary.com
33,353
subdomains included
Content
32,363
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
85 · 4
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 25,865 | 2 | 2026-09-22 | HRIS and HCM platforms, Succession planning | |
| Conference or event | 2,646 | undated | HRIS and HCM platforms, Pay equity | ||
| Blog | 2,541 | 7 | 2026-09-24 | Pay equity, Compensation management | |
| News or press | 790 | undated | Pay equity, Compensation management | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 390 | 41 | 2026-09-24 | Pay equity, Succession planning | |
| Comparison | 72 | 6 | 2026-09-28 | Workforce management sui, Performance management | |
| Case study | 29 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 24 | undated | Employee onboarding | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 6 | 0 | 2025-12-10 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Salarytalent vs workforce management software comparison
- 2026-09-28Salarytalent vs performance management software comparison
- 2026-09-28Salarytalent vs recruiting software comparison
- 2026-09-24Master compensation communication top tips blog
- 2026-09-24Implement a market adjustment raise blog
- 2026-09-24What is holiday pay and how is it calculated glossary or explainer
Events in person
Last twelve months
- April 22, 2026“Turning a sour merit cycle into a top-shelf strategy”Lila Cockerall Theatre, Street Level 1 · spoke
- April 21, 2026“You're hired. Now build it. A compensation function simulation”Simulation · spoke
- April 20, 2026“Market-based ranges or pay bands, finding the best fit for your organization”Room 006A, River Level 1 · spoke
As the event pages on salary.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page salary.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. 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 Salary.com CompAnalyst
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Salary.com CompAnalyst; a claim can dispute any of them.
Salary.com (CompAnalyst) 9Salary.com 8Salary.com / CompAnalyst 2Salary.com by CompAnalyst 2CompAnalyst (Salary.com) 1Compdata Max / Salary.com 1Salary.com (CompAnalyst/PayFactors) 1
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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.
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The company
Salary.com CompAnalyst is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Salary.com CompAnalyst is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Price jobs, build pay ranges, model scenarios, and evaluate pay practices.
- For
- comp teams
- Certifications
- Leader in Enterprise Compensation Solutions
- Customers named
- Premise HealthOmaha SteaksThe Ken Blanchard CompaniesSESLOC Credit UnionMSU Federal Credit UnionHabitat for HumanitySusan G. KomenCHRISTUS Health
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting
What Salary.com CompAnalyst's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: salary.com, salary.com/platform, salary.com/resources/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Salary.com CompAnalyst'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 Salary.com CompAnalyst, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Salary.com CompAnalyst by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Salary.com CompAnalyst 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 Salary.com CompAnalyst, 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.