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Top salary survey companies: a directory for compensation teams

Every survey on this list can be loaded into CompTool and used for market pricing and salary benchmarking.

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Salary surveys we recommend

Highly regarded, employer-reported salary surveys that CompTool supports. Every one can be loaded at no extra cost, in under three days on average.

AgCareers.com

AgCareers is a talent and HR services business for the agriculture and food industry, best known for its job board.

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Akron

AKRON, Inc. is a Washington, DC software and survey firm that builds custom data-collection and reporting systems.

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Aon

Aon is a global professional services firm that organizes its work around risk capital and human capital.

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Birches Group

Birches Group is an HR consultancy focused on developing markets and the international development sector, serving NGOs, international and public-sector organizations and companies.

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Compensation & HR Group

Compensation & HR Group (CHRG) is a team of compensation and HR consultants that offers consulting, training and market research to for-profit and nonprofit employers.

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Culpepper

Culpepper is a privately owned firm that has provided compensation data and consulting for more than 45 years.

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Empsight

Empsight is a New York-based HR consulting firm that runs participant-only compensation surveys aimed at Fortune 500, Fortune 1000 and large multinational employers.

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Foote Partners

Foote Partners is an IT analyst and independent benchmarking firm, founded in 1997, that researches pay and labor-market trends for technology workers.

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Gallagher

Gallagher Surveys is the compensation and benefits survey practice of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., run as part of Gallagher Benefit Services.

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HR Source

HR Source is a member-owned, not-for-profit employers' association that provides HR advice, legal services, training and survey data to employer organizations.

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Korn Ferry

Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm whose reward offering includes Korn Ferry Pay, a self-service subscription platform for compensation and benefits benchmarking.

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Lodestone Global

Lodestone Global is a board advisory firm that helps mid-size private companies, many of them family-run, build, improve and educate their boards of directors.

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Mercer

Mercer sells employer-reported salary survey data and pay-practice reports through its imercer.com store, covering general-industry jobs, specific industries, hourly and executive roles and global markets.

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MGMA

MGMA is a professional association for people who run medical practices, operating since 1926.

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NACE Salary Survey

NACE is a U.S. professional association, founded in 1956, for college career services staff, early talent recruiters and the vendors that serve them.

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PAS

PAS (founded in 1979 as Personnel Administration Services) is a private Michigan company that collects wage, salary and benefit data mainly for the construction industry.

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Pearl Meyer

Pearl Meyer is a compensation consulting firm that advises boards and management on executive pay and leadership programs.

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Radford

Aon's Radford McLagan Compensation Database is a single global pay-benchmarking platform that pools employer-submitted compensation data across many industries, job functions and levels.

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Sueldos.com

Sueldos.com is an online salary and benefits data service for Mexico and Central America, aimed mainly at small and mid-size employers.

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SullivanCotter

SullivanCotter is an independent consulting firm focused on health care and mission-driven organizations, founded in 1992.

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The Survey Group

The Survey Group (TSG) is a membership-based HR information, survey and consulting firm serving employers in New England.

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WTW

WTW sells salary survey reports and market practice data through its Rewards Data Intelligence store.

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