Small business▲+3Since September 2026: 4% → 7%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 6 → 4 of 100
1 category · RankedSalary.com
54Judge labels
4First choices
11Negative labels
14 / 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
5% in Compensation management for small business buyers
Rank 26 of 140 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 19 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Salary.com →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business4 of 108
5%17 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market26 of 140
0%19 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise12 of 126
2%18 labels
accepted challenger
In compensation management · 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 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 management | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 26 of 140 | 11% | 19 | accepted challenger | ▼−1Since September 2026: 1% → 0%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Salary.com held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Compensation management · by segment
Mid-market▼−1Since September 2026: 1% → 0%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 1% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 12 pointsRank 22 → 26 of 131
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 28 → 9 of 109
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation management | 1% | 0% | ▼−1Since September 2026: 1% → 0%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 22 → 26 of 140 |
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 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 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 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 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
Direct5 labels1
Paraphrase9 labels2
Comparative17 labelsNone
Budget-constrained8 labels1
Scale-constrained7 labelsNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative54 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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.
“If your company already has HR software and only needs salary benchmarking, Salary.com is the leaner choice.” Perplexity Sonar · Compensation management · budget prompt · alternative
“Tier 1: Best Overall Picks ... Companies wanting the deepest benchmark library and compliance focus” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Compensation management · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“recommended for mid-sized companies that are serious about pay equity, competitive benchmarking” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Compensation management · direct prompt · alternative
“A specialist option combining market data, job pricing and compensation analytics/planning.” GPT-6 Luna · Compensation management · 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.
“Algorithm-driven tools like Payfactors, Salary.com, or CompAnalyst promise real-time data... results can vary by as much as 35%” Muse Glimmer 30B · Compensation management · negative prompt · soft negative
“Salary.com - Concerns include: - Costly paywalls for features - Limited job information” MiniMax M2.5 · Compensation management · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Salary.com, over the 54 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salary.com was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Salary.com, over the 54 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salary.com 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. 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 54 of the 54 answers that named Salary.com and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
ravio.com37
learn.g2.com32
g2.com27
hibob.com26
captivateiq.com24
comprehensive.io23
gartner.com22
peoplemanagingpeople.com20
firsthr.app17
figures.hr14
242 of the 242 domain citations in answers naming Salary.com came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
salary.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Salary.com takes 0% of first choices and Pave takes 18%.ShowHide
Search and answers
salary.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Salary.com takes 0% of first choices and Pave takes 18%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “compensation platforms”
1
Position for “compensation management software”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 12,100 a month (“salary.com”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 71 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 26 of 140 in compensation management
Segment leader
18%
Pave
- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 54 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 54 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. Of its titles that name a category, most name pay equity (126); 74 name the category 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 Salary.com
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Salary.com; a claim can dispute any of them.
Salary.com (CompAnalyst) 3
Follow Salary.com
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 is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Salary.com is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI-powered Total Compensation Management platform providing SaaS software, salary data, and consulting to help businesses Get Pay Right®.
- For
- organizations; HR & compensation teams; employees & job seekers
- Customers named
- Premise HealthOmaha SteaksThe Ken Blanchard CompaniesSESLOC Credit UnionMSU Federal Credit UnionADPUKGWorkday
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Salary.com'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.
Is this your product?
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 Salary.com'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, 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 Salary.com by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Salary.com 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, 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.