3 categories · RankedSalary.com CompAnalyst
Salary.com CompAnalyst is a compensation management product from Salary.co · salary.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Pave is first at 19%.
Payscale is first at 18%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Mercer Total Remuneration Survey is first at 33%.
Why models recommend it
“Primary source: Payscale or Salary.com CompAnalyst — for general job pricing across all functions”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Best overall for most mid-sized teams: Salary.com”GPT-5.4 mini · Paraphrase question · first choice
“the best default choice is usually Salary.com”GPT-5.4 mini · Direct question · first choice
“Payscale (MarketPay / CompAnalyst) / Salary.com: Deep benchmark database access and robust traditional comp management.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Salary.com is often cited as crowdsourced ... their methodologies and data sources are often hidden behind proprietary black boxes”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Relying solely on basic crowdsourced databases (like standard Glassdoor, generic Salary.com consumer inputs, or unverified community surveys) for critical pay decisions.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Free tools (e.g., basic Salary.com or Levels.fyi) can be a starting point but often lack depth.”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · warning
“full benchmarking requires subscriptions (avoid if budget is tight)”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Salary.com CompAnalyst, over the 164 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 94 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 79 | 23 | Compare → | |
| 44 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 39 | 2 | View → | |
| 37 | 10 | View → | |
| 37 | 8 | View → | |
| 35 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 28 | 0 | View → | |
| 26 | 2 | View → | |
| 25 | 4 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Salary.com CompAnalyst →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Salary.com CompAnalyst's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- comp teams
- Customers named
- Premise Health, Omaha Steaks, The Ken Blanchard Companies, SESLOC Credit Union, MSU Federal Credit Union, Habitat for Humanity, Susan G. Komen, CHRISTUS Health
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 148 of the 164 answers that named Salary.com CompAnalyst and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
354 of the 422 domain citations in answers naming Salary.com CompAnalyst came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
What it publishes
| 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
- 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.