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Compensation benchmarking data for small business buyers

Asked as “salary benchmarking data provider”, and as “compensation survey data”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 47 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.

Standing

Pave

Contested

32% of first choices, contested.

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By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

Small business

Pave32%ContestedThis page Mid-market

Payscale24%ContestedStanding →Enterprise

Mercer26%ContestedStanding →

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a small B2B company. Ordered by share.

ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant

Pave0%27endorsed leader

Bureau of Labor Statistics0%10accepted challenger

Salary.com12%16accepted challenger

Payscale22%23accepted challenger

Ravio0%25accepted challenger

Comprehensive.io0%19accepted challenger

Levels.fyi27%11criticized challenger

Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate

Mercer83%12criticized challenger

Radford83%12criticized challenger

Glassdoor40%10criticized challenger

Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.

Head to head

Payscale vs Pave Payscale vs Comprehensive.io Pave vs Comprehensive.io

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default

Negative label rate →

Accepted challengerEndorsed leader

0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative50%

Key

Pave32%

Bureau of Labor Statistics6%

Salary.com6%

Payscale4%

Ravio2%

Comprehensive.io2%

Levels.fyi2%

Glassdoor0%

Mercer0%

Radford0%

02What they warned about

One of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.

Radford

83%

10 of 12 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 4 hard negative

“What to avoid on a tight budget - **Mercer / Radford / Willis Towers Watson**” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt

Mercer

83%

10 of 12 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 3 hard negative

“Avoid Enterprise Platforms: Skip heavyweights like Mercer, Willis Towers Watson, or Radford” Qwen 3.7 Flash, budget prompt

Willis Towers Watson

80%

4 of 5 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 3 hard negative

“Skip heavyweights like Mercer, Willis Towers Watson, or Radford unless you have an HRIS integration budget of $10k+ annually” Qwen 3.7 Flash, budget prompt

Payscale

22%

5 of 23 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 2 hard negative

“Avoid: Large annual subscriptions from providers like PayScale (~$13,888+/year median for SMBs)” Kimi K2, paraphrase prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

68 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 932 links across 288 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

ravio.com

vendor site · Ravio38 answers · 105 citations · 10 models

fitsmallbusiness.com

23 answers · 24 citations · 10 models

comprehensive.io

vendor site · Comprehensive20 answers · 33 citations · 9 models

pin.com

vendor site · Pin19 answers · 19 citations · 10 models

worldmetrics.org

18 answers · 40 citations · 10 models

salary.com

vendor site · Salary.com17 answers · 25 citations · 8 models

g2.com

13 answers · 21 citations · 9 models

zipdo.co

12 answers · 30 citations · 10 models

reddit.com

vendor site · Reddit12 answers · 21 citations · 6 models

gitnux.org

11 answers · 20 citations · 8 models

payscale.com

vendor site · Payscale11 answers · 16 citations · 7 models

salarycube.com

vendor site · SalaryCube9 answers · 15 citations · 6 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

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

24 answers · 10 models

fitsmallbusiness.com/salary-comparison-tools

23 answers · 10 models

ravio.com/blog/compensation-benchmarking-companies

23 answers · 10 models

comprehensive.io/content/best-compensation-benchmarking-data-sources

19 answers · 8 models

pin.com/blog/salary-benchmarking-tools

19 answers · 10 models

salary.com/blog/top-tools-for-salary-benchmarking

13 answers · 8 models

ravio.com/blog/free-salary-data

10 answers · 6 models

worldmetrics.org/service/benchmarking

10 answers · 7 models

zipdo.co/service/it-benchmarking

10 answers · 8 models

compensation-iq.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-salary-benchmarking-survey-p…

9 answers · 7 models

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.

ModelDirect“What is the best salary benchmarking data provider for a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which compensation survey data would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top benchmarking providers for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best salary benchmarking data provider for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a salary benchmarking data provider. What should we look at?”Negative“Which benchmarking providers should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”

Claude Haiku 4.5Pave

Three alternatives

BLS Occupational Employment Statistics, Compease, Salary.com's CompAnalyst

Bureau of Labor StatisticsChanged

Two alternatives

CompAnalyst® Market Data, RCReports

Payscale

One alternative

Compease

Pave

Three alternatives

BLS Occupational Employment Statistics, Comprehensive.io, Ravio

no first choicenothing named

GPT-5.4 miniSalary.com

Two alternatives

Payscale Ascent, SalaryCube

SHRM Compensation Data Center / Salary.com-backed dataChanged

One alternative

BLS wage data

Payscale

One alternative

Carta Total Comp / compensation tools

against: Option Impact, RadfordSalary.com's Benchmark Pro

One alternative

Payscale

no first choiceagainst: Benchmark My Plan LLC, BestMark

Gemini 3.5 FlashPave

Six alternatives

Carta Total Compensation, Comprehensive.io, Figures, Pavilion GTM Benchmarks, Payscale, Ravio

against: Mercer, RadfordCarta Total Compensation, PaveChanged

Four alternatives

Culpepper Compensation Surveys, Pavilion's GTM Compensation Benchmarks, Payscale, The Bridge Group

against: Mercer, Radford, Willis Towers WatsonPave

Three alternatives

Carta Total Comp, Comprehensive.io, Ravio

Pave

Six alternatives

Bureau of Labor Statistics, Comptool, ERI, Figures.hr, O*NET, Ravio

against: Glassdoor, Indeed, Mercer, Radford, Salary.comPave

Six alternatives

Carta Total Comp, Comprehensive.io, Figures, Payscale, Ravio, Salary.com

against: Forrester, Gartner, Glassdoor, Mercer, Radford, Salary.com, The Hackett Group

Perplexity SonarPave, Ravio

Three alternatives

BLS, Payscale, Salary.com CompAnalyst

Mercer Benchmark Database, SHRM CompAnalyst Market DataChanged

Two alternatives

Culpepper’s Sales Compensation Survey, WTW salary surveys

Pave, Ravio

One alternative

Mercer / Radford / survey providers

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Two alternatives

Comprehensive.io, Pave

against: Payscale, Salary.com CompAnalystno first choicenothing named

Grok 4.1 FastBureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, Salary.com CompAnalyst

Two alternatives

Comprehensive.io, Pave

against: Payscale, Radford, WTWU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Occupational Employment and Wage StatisticsChanged

Five alternatives

CompData Surveys, Culpepper Compensation Surveys, Payscale, SHRM Compensation Data Center, Salary.com Free Tools

Geckoboard, SimpleKPI

Three alternatives

Databox, Klipfolio, Zoho Analytics

against: Deloitte, Jellyfish, KPMG, WaydevBureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics

Two alternatives

Comprehensive.io, Pave Market Data Lite

against: Mercerno first choiceagainst: Glassdooragainst: BCG, Bench Accounting, Birdeye, Deloitte, KPMG, McKinsey, PwC, Trustpilot

Mistral SmallBrightmine, Salary.com

Two alternatives

Bureau of Labor Statistics, Indeed

Culpepper Surveys, SHRM Compensation Data CenterChangedSalary.com CompAnalystBureau of Labor Statistics

Three alternatives

Comprehensive.io, Pave, SalaryExpert

no first choiceagainst: Benchmark / benchmark.co.com, Fortunebusinessinsights.com

DeepSeek V4 FlashComprehensive.io, Pave

Two alternatives

Bureau of Labor Statistics, Ravio

against: Levels.fyi, Salary.com CompAnalystBLS Occupational Employment & Wage StatisticsChanged

Five alternatives

CompData, Culpepper, Glassdoor, Mercer MarketPricer, Option Impact

against: PayscaleDatabox, Government Tools

Six alternatives

Cyfe, DX, Geckoboard, LivePlan, PlanGuru, Waydev

against: Jellyfish, Klipfolio, SimilarwebPave

Five alternatives

Bureau of Labor Statistics, Comprehensive.io, Payfactors, Ravio, SalaryExpert

against: Levels.fyi, Mercer, Payscale, Radford, Willis Towers WatsonPave

Two alternatives

BLS OEWS, Ravio

against: Culpepper, Glassdoor, Korn Ferry, Levels.fyi, Mercer, Radford, WTWagainst: Benchmark / benchmark.co.com, MarketResearch.com, ResearchandMarkets.com, Transparency Market Research

Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceno first choiceHeldno first choicePave

Four alternatives

BLS OEWS, Comprehensive.io, Ravio, SalaryExpert

no first choicenothing named

Qwen 3.7 FlashLevels.fyi, Pave

Five alternatives

Compensation-IQ, Payscale, Ravio, Robert Half, Salary.com

against: Korn Ferry, MercerSalary.comChanged

Three alternatives

Mercer MarketPricer, Payscale, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Databox

Three alternatives

Klipfolio, PlanGuru, Whatagraph

Pave

Three alternatives

BLS OEWS, Ravio, Salary.com

against: Mercer, Radford, Willis Towers Watsonno first choice

Three alternatives

Mercer"s MarketPricer, Pave, Ravio

against: Dun & Bradstreet, Seek Capital, The Better Business Bureau

Kimi K2Payscale

Five alternatives

BLS, Glassdoor, Mercer MarketPricer, Pave, Ravio

against: Culpepper, Mercer, RadfordBureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) OEWSChanged

Four alternatives

CompData Surveys, Culpepper, Glassdoor, Mercer MarketPricer

against: Korn Ferry, Payscale, Willis Towers WatsonDatabox

Three alternatives

ClientCues, Klipfolio, Semrush

Pave Market Data Lite

Three alternatives

BLS Occupational Employment Statistics, Comprehensive.io, SalaryExpert

no first choiceagainst: BizMiner, Business Rate LLC, IBISWorld, Sageworks

GLM 4.7 FlashXPave

Three alternatives

Comprehensive.io, LaborIQ, SalaryCube

SalesCookie, SyncGTMChanged

Six alternatives

CompTool Salary Survey Marketplace, Mercer Salary Surveys, O*NET Online, Pave Market Data Lite, SHRM Compensation Data Center, Willis Towers Watson (WTW) Salary Surveys

against: Pearl Meyer Compensation SurveysPave, Salary.com CompAnalystBLS Occupational Employment Statistics, CheckSalary.us

Five alternatives

Pave, Payfactors, Playroll Salary Benchmarking Tool, Ravio, SalaryExpert

no first choiceagainst: 451 Research, Everest Group, Forrester, Gartner, IDC

MiniMax M2.5Pave, Payscale

Three alternatives

BLS Occupational Employment Statistics, Figures, Salary.com

Salary.com Industry Compensation DataChanged

Three alternatives

Mercer's Remuneration Survey for SMEs, NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) Survey, WTW (Willis Towers Watson) Salary Surveys

Pave

Two alternatives

Ravio, Salary.com CompAnalyst

BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) OEWS

One alternative

Glassdoor

no first choicenothing named

Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record

Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.

Prompt	Model	Version string	Time (UTC)	Searched	Sources	Latency
Direct recommendation	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 18:49	yes	17	9 s
Direct recommendation	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 20:10	yes	3	5 s
Direct recommendation	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 19:11	yes	10	19 s
Direct recommendation	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 20:13	yes	20	5 s
Direct recommendation	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 19:26	yes	33	20 s
Direct recommendation	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 19:17	yes	5	4 s
Direct recommendation	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks`	2026-09-17 20:13	yes	12	15 s
Direct recommendation	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 19:55	yes	5	5 s
Direct recommendation	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 21:30	yes	15	44 s
Direct recommendation	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 20:23	yes	14	25 s
Direct recommendation	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 21:03	yes	27	21 s
Direct recommendation	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 18:32	yes	17	28 s
Paraphrase	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 19:43	yes	9	9 s
Paraphrase	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 20:22	yes	2	6 s
Paraphrase	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 18:29	yes	19	26 s
Paraphrase	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 20:25	yes	20	6 s
Paraphrase	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 20:39	yes	36	18 s
Paraphrase	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 21:23	yes	5	5 s
Paraphrase	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks`	2026-09-17 20:03	yes	9	11 s
Paraphrase	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 20:04	yes	5	2 s
Paraphrase	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 20:44	yes	15	65 s
Paraphrase	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 20:08	yes	27	51 s
Paraphrase	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 18:18	yes	18	70 s
Paraphrase	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 20:04	yes	5	45 s
Comparative	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 20:42	yes	18	12 s
Comparative	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 20:31	no	0	6 s
Comparative	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 20:00	yes	14	23 s
Comparative	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 20:33	yes	20	10 s
Comparative	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 20:09	yes	31	21 s
Comparative	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 19:08	yes	8	11 s
Comparative	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks`	2026-09-17 20:52	yes	28	52 s
Comparative	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 19:58	yes	5	3 s
Comparative	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 19:41	yes	9	45 s
Comparative	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 20:28	yes	20	26 s
Comparative	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 19:08	yes	20	100 s
Comparative	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 20:24	yes	9	36 s
Budget constrained	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 21:34	yes	9	7 s
Budget constrained	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 21:20	yes	3	5 s
Budget constrained	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 18:38	yes	15	30 s
Budget constrained	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 21:14	yes	20	6 s
Budget constrained	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 18:40	yes	34	17 s
Budget constrained	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 21:42	yes	5	5 s
Budget constrained	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks`	2026-09-17 18:18	yes	17	16 s
Budget constrained	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 21:25	yes	5	3 s
Budget constrained	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 18:25	yes	5	16 s
Budget constrained	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 18:03	yes	9	17 s
Budget constrained	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 21:41	yes	28	50 s
Budget constrained	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 19:14	yes	5	14 s
Scale constrained	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 18:12	no	0	8 s
Scale constrained	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 18:47	no	0	9 s
Scale constrained	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 21:55	yes	13	47 s
Scale constrained	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 18:03	yes	20	8 s
Scale constrained	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 19:54	yes	14	12 s
Scale constrained	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 21:46	no	0	7 s
Scale constrained	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks`	2026-09-17 18:00	yes	13	18 s
Scale constrained	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 19:28	yes	5	3 s
Scale constrained	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 19:51	yes	8	31 s
Scale constrained	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 19:50	yes	10	32 s
Scale constrained	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 19:15	yes	14	51 s
Scale constrained	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 18:14	yes	10	21 s
Negative framing	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 18:09	yes	28	13 s
Negative framing	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 20:59	yes	4	7 s
Negative framing	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 18:49	yes	10	20 s
Negative framing	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 20:41	yes	20	9 s
Negative framing	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 19:48	yes	33	18 s
Negative framing	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 18:17	yes	10	7 s
Negative framing	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks`	2026-09-17 20:12	yes	30	25 s
Negative framing	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 20:42	yes	5	2 s
Negative framing	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 18:13	yes	10	44 s
Negative framing	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 20:18	yes	24	46 s
Negative framing	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 20:54	yes	28	85 s
Negative framing	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 19:01	yes	19	36 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings

None. Every name in this category resolved on its own.

Unresolved, counted raw

ATO small-business benchmarks

Allstacks

Altura Consulting Group

Australian Bureau of Statistics

BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) OEWS

BLS wage data

Bench Accounting (bench.co)

Benchmark My Plan LLC

BestMark

Business Rate LLC

Carta Total Comp / compensation tools

CheckSalary.us

ClientCues

Clutch

CompAnalyst® Market Data

CompBenchmark

CompTool Salary Survey Marketplace

Culpepper Surveys

Culpepper’s Sales Compensation Survey

Cyfe

DealStats

Everest Group

Fortunebusinessinsights.com

Glassdoor for Employers

Government Tools (ATO, BDC, SizeUp)

IBISWorld

IRS Statistics of Income

Indeed Salary Search

Indeed's Hiring Insights

Knowledgelib

LaborIQ

Mercer / Radford / survey providers

Mercer Salary Surveys (imercer.com)

Mercer"s MarketPricer

Mercer's Remuneration Survey for SMEs

NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) Survey

ONet

Pavilion's GTM Compensation Benchmarks (Annual Report)

Payscale free tools

Pearl Meyer Compensation Surveys

Playing

Playroll Salary Benchmarking Tool

Playroll's Free Salary Benchmarking Tool

ProfitCents / Fathom

RCReports

RMA (Risk Management Association)

RMA (Risk Management Association) Annual Statement Studies

RMA's Annual Statement Studies

RankedVendors

Ravio’s Buyer’s Guide

ReferenceUSA

SBA Size Standards & Industry Data

SCORE mentoring

SHRM Benchmark Job Report

SHRM Compensation Data Center / Salary.com-backed data

Sageworks (now part of Abrigo)

Salary.com Free Tools

Salary.com Industry Compensation Data

Salary.com Wizard

Salary.com's Benchmark Pro

Seek Capital

SimpleKPI

Swarmia

SyncGTM

The Better Business Bureau (BBB)

Typo

WTW (Willis Towers Watson) Salary Surveys

WTW salary surveys

Whatagraph

Willis Towers Watson (WTW) Salary Surveys

ZipRecruiter Salary Calculator

Discontinued, still offered

No shut-down product was recommended here.

Compensation benchmarking data for small business buyers

By buyer segment

01The standing

Recommended versus criticized

02What they warned about

03What they cite

Sites the answers cite

Pages the answers cite

04How they answered

05The record

Normalization in this category

Also in compensation and total rewards