# Payscale / Salary.com: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge label across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/payscale-salary-com

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Compensation management](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/rewards/compensation-management/index.md) | 0% | 64 | 0% | 1 |

## What the models said for it

- "Choose Payscale or Salary.com when reliable market pricing is more important than sophisticated workflow automation." (Perplexity Sonar, Compensation management)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Payscale / Salary.com, from 2 of the 2 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- aon.com: 1
- capterra.com: 1
- captivateiq.com: 1
- comprehensive.io: 1
- g2.com: 1
- hibob.com: 1
- leadchangegroup.com: 1
- learn.g2.com: 1
- mercer.com: 1
- peoplemanagingpeople.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://aon.com/en/capabilities/human-capital-analytics/total-rewards-benchmarking-platform: 1
- https://capterra.com/resources/best-compensation-management-software-reviews-analysis: 1
- https://captivateiq.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software: 1
- https://comprehensive.io/content/best-compensation-management-software: 1
- https://g2.com/categories/salary-benchmarking/enterprise: 1
- https://hibob.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software: 1
- https://leadchangegroup.com/compensation-management-software: 1
- https://learn.g2.com/best-compensation-management-software: 1

## In its own words

What Payscale / Salary.com's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: Compensation Intelligence & Salary Data Software (https://payscale.com/)
- For: compensation leaders, HR teams, executives, recruiters, and people managers (https://payscale.com/)
- Free plan or trial: Unlock dynamic pay insights for free. (https://www.payscale.com/products/data)
- Certifications: SOC 2, TX-RAMP, GDPR, CCPA, CPRA
- Customers named: ACTS Retirement-Life, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, Deltek, ZoomInfo, Independent Bank, Mariani Packing Company, Baylor University, Integer Holdings

## What it publishes

Every page payscale.com exposes, read 2026-09-29: 219024 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- case study: 14 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- webinar or virtual event: 60 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- conference or event: 130 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- report or ebook: 216972 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- comparison: 15 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- template or tool: 12 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-05-14
- glossary or explainer: 19 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- news or press: 164 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- Recent: 2026-05-14 template or tool: Readiness checklist know right level transparency org 2 https://www.payscale.com/compensation-trends/readiness-checklist-know-right-level-transparency-org-2

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/hr.