Frequently asked questions

CompTool is compensation management software built by compensation analysts, and more than 300 organizations use it. It brings together market pricing and benchmarking, salary survey management, Squirrel real-time market data, pay structures, job architecture, reporting and AI-assisted job descriptions.

In our February 2026 study of 234 compensation professionals, CompTool earned the highest satisfaction rating of five platforms (8.0 out of 10 from current users), the most best-value votes and the most votes for best customer support. Read the study.

Yes. 90% of our customers have global operations and use CompTool to bring large-scale data and complex compensation programs together. Read customer stories.

Every survey in our salary survey provider directory can be loaded into CompTool and used for market pricing and benchmarking.

Surveys are loaded in less than three days, on average, at no extra cost.

Squirrel uses employer-reported pay ranges from more than 80 million publicly available job postings from the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and India, adding 80,000 to 100,000 every day. It never uses self-reported pay. Explore Squirrel.

Yes. CompTool has live feeds to ADP, Workday, SAP, PeopleSoft, HRSoft and other HRIS systems.

CompTool uses AI to suggest market matches, write job descriptions to your template, build job level descriptions and job architectures, extract pay data for Squirrel and track minimum wage changes. It never uses customer data to train models and never touches employee data. How CompTool uses AI.

A dedicated account manager who is a compensation professional, backed by our customer success team. You’ll talk to people who know your business, not a ticket queue. Meet the team.

Usually less than two weeks. We partner with you and your HRIS team to guide you through the process.

Pricing is tailored to your organization, so book a demo for a quote. Surveys are loaded at no extra cost, and 2- and 3-year agreements are discounted.

CompTool has a SOC 2 Type II report, and our security documentation is available in our Trust Center. Security and trust.

Compa-ratio compares an employee’s salary to the midpoint of their pay range: salary ÷ midpoint. Below 1.0 means the employee is paid below the midpoint. Compa-ratio vs position in range.

Position in range shows where a salary falls between the range minimum and maximum: (salary − minimum) ÷ (maximum − minimum).

Start with the industries, locations and job families you compete for. Our guide to choosing salary surveys walks through it.