Small business=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 27 → 43 of 143
1 category · Named, not rankedSalaryExpert
4Judge labels
0First choices
0Negative labels
3 / 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.
Standing
1 label, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. SalaryExpert was named 1 time in Compensation benchmarkin, 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 business37 of 155
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market76 of 148
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
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 SalaryExpert 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% | 76 of 148 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 19% | =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, SalaryExpert held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Compensation benchmarkin · 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 41 → 66 of 138
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation benchmarkin | 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 41 → 76 of 148 |
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 SalaryExpert 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 SalaryExpert 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained4 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.
“Cost-effective pricing designed for small businesses” Kimi K2 · Compensation benchmarkin · budget 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SalaryExpert, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SalaryExpert was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SalaryExpert, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SalaryExpert 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 SalaryExpert. 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 SalaryExpert and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
deel.com4
us.fitgap.com4
firsthr.app3
fitsmallbusiness.com3
g2.com3
pin.com3
ravio.com3
comprehensive.io2
figures.hr2
pave.com2
Twenty-nine of the twenty-nine domain citations in answers naming SalaryExpert 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, SalaryExpert takes 0% 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, SalaryExpert 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 1,069,118 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 76 of 148 in compensation benchmarkin
Segment leader
19%
Pave
- First choices
- 0 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 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); 0 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.
Follow SalaryExpert
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
SalaryExpert is its own company.ShowHide
The company
SalaryExpert is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Customers named
- The Ken Blanchard CompaniesSESLOC Credit UnionMSU Federal Credit Union
- Not stated on the pages read
- Positioning, who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What SalaryExpert's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: salary.com, salary.com/platform, salary.com/resources/case-studies. 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 SalaryExpert'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 SalaryExpert, 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 SalaryExpert by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where SalaryExpert 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 SalaryExpert, 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.