Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 12 → 8 of 71
1 category · RankedSalary.com Pay Equity
34Judge labels
2First choices
4Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in Pay equity for small business buyers
Rank 22 of 73 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 12 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Salary.com Pay Equity →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business9 of 78
4%13 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market22 of 73
0%12 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise16 of 68
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
In pay equity · 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 Pay Equity 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay equity | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 22 of 73 | 8% | 12 | accepted challenger | =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 Pay Equity held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Pay equity · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 18 → 21 of 67
Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 7 → 17 of 60
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 18 → 22 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 Pay Equity 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 Pay Equity 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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
Direct6 labelsNone
Paraphrase8 labels1
Comparative9 labelsNone
Budget-constrained10 labels1
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative34 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.
“Salary.com Pay Equity, which is described as the low-cost entry option for audit-style analysis with market context.” Perplexity Sonar · Pay equity · budget prompt · alternative
“Salary.com is also a strong fit because G2 positions it as a dedicated compensation analytics platform” GPT-5.4 mini · Pay equity · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Go with Payscale or Salary.com. They will give you the baseline market salary data you need” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Pay equity · comparative prompt · alternative
“It offers the largest survey-based compensation database, equity analysis linked to market data” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Pay equity · comparative prompt · alternative
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.
“often cited as expensive for small businesses” GPT-5.4 mini · Pay equity · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Salary.com Pay Equity, over the 34 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salary.com Pay Equity was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Salary.com Pay Equity, over the 34 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salary.com Pay Equity 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 Pay Equity. 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 33 of the 34 answers that named Salary.com Pay Equity and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
peoplemanagingpeople.com21
effy.ai17
g2.com14
sourceforge.net14
compensationtools.net13
gartner.com12
trustradius.com11
guideflow.com10
captivateiq.com9
worldmetrics.org9
130 of the 130 domain citations in answers naming Salary.com Pay Equity came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
salary.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Salary.com Pay Equity takes 0% of first choices and Syndio takes 12%.ShowHide
Search and answers
salary.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Salary.com Pay Equity takes 0% of first choices and Syndio takes 12%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “pay equity tools”
7
Position for “pay equity analysis software”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- not counted (“salary.com pay equity”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 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
0%
rank 22 of 73 in pay equity
Segment leader
12%
Syndio
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 34 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 33 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 Pay Equity
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Salary.com Pay Equity; a claim can dispute any of them.
Salary.com 8Salary.com (CompAnalyst) 1Salary.com Pay Equity Suite 1
Follow Salary.com Pay Equity
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
Salary.com Pay Equity is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Salary.com Pay Equity is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Protect your organization from wage disparity with a comprehensive pay equity analysis.
- For
- organizations
- Customers named
- Premise HealthOmaha SteaksThe Ken Blanchard CompaniesSESLOC Credit UnionMSU Federal Credit Union
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Salary.com Pay Equity's own pages state, read October 5, 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 Pay Equity'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 Pay Equity, 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 Pay Equity by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Salary.com Pay Equity 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 Pay Equity, 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.