3 categories · RankedSalary.com
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation benchmarking data | Compensation and total rewards | 2% | 9 of 144 | 6% | 16 | accepted challenger |
| Compensation management | Compensation and total rewards | 1% | 24 of 189 | 29% | 28 | criticized challenger |
| Pay equity | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 18 of 60 | 7% | 14 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
| 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
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
What carried it into the answer
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
444 of the 444 domain citations in answers naming Salary.com came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Salary.com
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