Every category where a model named Salary.com 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
Compensation benchmarking data	Compensation and total rewards	2%	9 of 141	6%	16	accepted challenger
Compensation management	Compensation and total rewards	1%	24 of 186	29%	28	criticized challenger
Pay equity	Compensation and total rewards	0%	18 of 60	7%	14	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Salary.com yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Salary.com across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	7	1	0	8
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	3	2	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	1	2	1	0	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	4	2	3	9
Mistral Small	0	2	1	1	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	3	3	9
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	5	1	1	7
Kimi K2	0	2	0	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	2	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	1	0	3

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

Direct40 labels5

Paraphrase23 labels3

Comparative26 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained39 labels3

Scale-constrained14 labels1

Negative14 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative156 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 14 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.

“Salary.com or entry-level options from major HR platforms ... offer good value” MiniMax M2.5 · Compensation management · budget prompt · first choice

“Best all-around for mid-sized companies: Compdata Max / Salary.com” Perplexity Sonar · Compensation benchmarkin · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Salary.com is widely considered the market leader for large enterprises.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Compensation management · comparative prompt · first choice

“described as a solid budget entry for role-matching and market pricing, though it is broader compensation analysis” Perplexity Sonar · Pay equity · 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.

“Dated, Excel-heavy interface requiring vendor dependency for basic changes; Costly paywalls that frustrate users” Kimi K2 · Compensation management · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid Payscale and Salary.com if you need modern UX and self-service” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Compensation management · negative prompt · hard negative

“this typically costs several thousand dollars annually, so it is only "budget-friendly" if you view it as a one-off purchase” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation management · budget prompt · soft negative

“Pure salary benchmarking tools (like Salary.com, some PayScale modules)... they don't diagnose inequity or root causes” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Pay equity · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Salary.com, over the 141 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salary.com was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Payscale85 of 14113Compare →

Pave71 of 14138Compare →

Ravio44 of 1418Not among the top eight

Mercer43 of 1415Compare →

beqom40 of 14111Not among the top eight

Radford33 of 1415Compare →

BambooHR31 of 14112Not among the top eight

CaptivateIQ28 of 1413Not among the top eight

Comprehensive23 of 1418Not among the top eight

Syndio21 of 1416Not among the top eight

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 Salary.com. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 121 of the 141 answers that named Salary.com and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

comprehensive.io66

gartner.com63

g2.com60

ravio.com51

learn.g2.com45

peoplemanagingpeople.com36

hibob.com33

worldmetrics.org31

salarycube.com30

captivateiq.com29

444 of the 444 domain citations in answers naming Salary.com came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

comprehensive.io/content/best-compensation-management-software48

gartner.com/reviews/market/compensation-management-software48

learn.g2.com/best-compensation-management-software45

hibob.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software33

ravio.com/blog/the-best-tools-for-salary-benchmarking22

ravio.com/blog/compensation-benchmarking-companies21

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-compensation-management-software20

ravio.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software19

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Salary.com

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Salary.com; a claim can dispute any of them.

Salary.com (CompAnalyst) 10Salary.com (CompAnalyst for Small Business) 1Salary.com (by Amex Group) 1Salary.com/Compdata 1

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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 Salary.com'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 Salary.com, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

With a new claim: the vendor brief

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Salary.com by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Salary.com 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 Salary.com, 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.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at salary.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.