Checklist
Salary Benchmarking Software Buyer’s Questions
A one-page checklist of the questions to ask every market pricing vendor, so you can look past the demo before you commit.
- Features, pricing and hidden costs
- Security and implementation
- Ongoing support and survey updates
Keep it open during vendor demos and ask every vendor the same questions, so you can compare their answers side by side. For the full buying process, from budget to business case, see the Buyer’s Guide.
- 1-page PDF
- Free download
What the checklist covers
- Whether you can market price multiple jobs at once and multi-match across surveys and countries
- Job description storage, permission levels, salary structure modeling and salary history tracking
- Total price and multi-year discounts
- Hidden costs: extra survey loads, additional users, added employees, dedicated account executive, implementation fees
- Security: SOC 2 Type II, single sign-on and how data is uploaded
- Implementation timeline, loading existing matches and HRIS integration
- Who your account executive will be, their background and how often reps change
- How long survey and company file loads take, and how new surveys are updated
Ask us every question on the list
Bring the checklist to a CompTool demo and see how we answer it, with your own jobs and salary surveys.
You’ll meet with comp professionals like Zack, Matt, Brittni and Caitlin, not a sales script.
