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Salary.com Compdata Surveys

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–Too few to rank
5/14Models named it
2First choices
0Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inCompensation benchmarking data #17 mid-market
What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Salary.com Compdata Surveys has 2.

Why models recommend it

“Start with Salary.com Compdata Benchmark Pro at $3,495 for industry-specific data with quarterly updates”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Salary.com Compdata participant $995 is the lowest-cost traditional survey entry point, updated quarterly.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · alternative

What gives them pause

No model argued against it.

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Salary.com Compdata Surveys, over the 5 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

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

The sites and pages the answers that named Salary.com Compdata Surveys came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 5 of the 5 answers that named Salary.com Compdata Surveys and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

store.salary.comIts own site5
payscale.com4
ravio.com3
salary.comIts own site3
captivateiq.com2
comptool.com2
deel.com2
fitsmallbusiness.com2
g2.com2
hrpaypick.com2

Nineteen of the twenty-seven domain citations in answers naming Salary.com Compdata Surveys came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Salary.com Compdata Surveys across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2000000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX10001
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B01001

What it publishes

Addresses on salary.com
33,353
subdomains included
Content
32,363
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
85 · 4
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Report or ebook25,86522026-09-22HRIS and HCM platforms, Succession planning
Conference or event2,646undatedHRIS and HCM platforms, Pay equity
Blog2,54172026-09-24Pay equity, Compensation management
News or press790undatedPay equity, Compensation management
Glossary or explainer390412026-09-24Pay equity, Succession planning
Comparison7262026-09-28Workforce management sui, Performance management
Case study29undated
Template or tool24undatedEmployee onboarding
Webinar or virtual event602025-12-10

Events in person

The twelve months before September 28, 2026

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.