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Index Vendors › WTW · September 2026 Edition
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WTW

26Judge labels
1First choices
8Negative labels
9 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Compensation benchmarkin for mid-market buyers
Rank 29 of 144 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 30% of its 10 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In compensation benchmarkin · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named WTW 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Compensation benchmarking dataCompensation and total rewards0%29 of 14430%10criticized challenger
Compensation managementCompensation and total rewards0%63 of 18925%4under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18%

Movement

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

By model

How each model treated WTW across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini11013
Gemini 3.5 Flash03003
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00011
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00022
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.500101

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
Direct6 labelsNone
Paraphrase3 labels1
Comparative5 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained7 labelsNone
Negative4 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.

“Similar to Mercer, but often chosen for global HR/benefits depth and actuarial/benefits expertise.” GPT-5.4 mini · Compensation benchmarkin · comparative prompt · first choice
“Alternatively, rely on traditional, highly vetted corporate surveys from firms like Radford (Aon), WTW, or Mercer.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · negative prompt · alternative
“Prioritize platforms that use verified employer-reported data (such as Option Impact, Pave, Ravio, or WTW/Radford)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation management · negative prompt · alternative
“platforms like Payscale, Mercer, or WTW are the gold standards” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · scale 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.

“Traditional salary survey providers (data in spreadsheets/portals, limited software).” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Compensation management · comparative prompt · soft negative
“Mercer / WTW: ... they can be heavier than many mid-market companies need” GPT-5.4 mini · Compensation benchmarkin · direct prompt · soft negative
“often cost-prohibitive for mid-market firms” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · direct prompt · soft negative
“Risk: Very high cost and clunky technology.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as WTW, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and WTW was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Mercer23 of 261Not in the top three
Pave19 of 267Not in the top three
Radford19 of 263Not in the top three
Payscale13 of 263Not in the top three
Ravio12 of 262Not in the top three
Salary.com6 of 261Not in the top three
Glassdoor6 of 260Not in the top three
beqom5 of 263Not in the top three
Figures5 of 261Not in the top three
Compa4 of 260Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 WTW. 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 17 of the 26 answers that named WTW and are not a share of its labels.

Names read as WTW

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as WTW; a claim can dispute any of them.
Radford / WTW / Brightmine 1Radford/WTW 1WTW (Willis Towers Watson) 1WTW/Radford 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 WTW'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 WTW, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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 wtwco.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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