Benchmark every job with confidence and precision.

The dataset covers more than 30,000 organizations, including public, private, non-profit, and for-profit companies of all sizes. It spans 187 U.S. metropolitan areas and incorporates salary, bonus, and benefits data. This breadth ensures that HR teams can confidently benchmark compensation against a representative sample of the market.

The initial list of jobs in CompAnalyst was created by Salary.com's team of compensation consultants. The list is based on the most commonly benchmarked jobs and those for which reliable information is available. In addition, Salary.com continually collects data from our corporate clients, who identify specific jobs and job families they believe should be included. Each year, Salary.com updates and continuously supplements all its data with its own new and external surveys.

Salary.com adds new jobs and job families to CompAnalyst on a monthly basis. If there are certain jobs or job families that are not in CompAnalyst that you think are important for inclusion, please contact your Customer Success Team to ask for those jobs or families to be added. If sufficient data exists, the job will be added over time.

Different industries have different pay philosophies and pay practices. Across industries, however, certain jobs require the same skills and experience and command the same (or similar) compensation levels. Traditionally, administrative and lower-paying jobs were the most common jobs in this category. More recently, some technical jobs have also become in universal demand, and therefore, the compensation practices have somewhat leveled out across most industries.