Payscale alternatives

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Payscale Salary.com Levels.fyi
Vendor Payscale, Inc. Salary.com, LLC Levels.fyi (Level Technologies, Inc.)
Pricing model Free tier + paid plans Quote only Free tier + paid plans
Free tier Yes Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud Cloud Cloud
Open source No No No
Best for HR and compensation teams benchmarking pay and running merit/raise cycles. HR and compensation teams pricing jobs, running merit cycles and auditing pay equity. Tech job seekers comparing offers, and recruiters benchmarking pay against public tech-industry data.
Pricing

Free consumer salary lookup; enterprise compensation software and data sold under custom subscriptions.

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Free public salary lookup; enterprise compensation software and data sold under custom contracts.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Free salary database for job seekers; employer benchmarking/talent tools and negotiation coaching are paid.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Features
  • Compensation benchmarking against market salary data
  • Ascent pay-decision software
  • Paycycle merit and raise-cycle planning
  • JobNav Recruiter for compliant, market-priced job postings
  • Pay-equity analysis tools
  • Job architecture and leveling
  • Free individual salary-lookup tool
  • CompAnalyst Max job pricing and salary-structure modeling
  • CompXL merit, bonus, commission and equity administration
  • Pay Equity Suite for wage-disparity analysis
  • JobArchitect market-aligned job descriptions
  • Executive compensation data for public-company leaders
  • Federal/state/county/municipal minimum-wage tracking
  • Free public salary-lookup tool
  • Self-reported salary and total-compensation database
  • Company-to-company job-level mapping
  • Verified submissions via offer-letter/paystub upload
  • H-1B visa salary data from public filings
  • Employer compensation-benchmarking tools
  • Talent-pool access for recruiters
  • Offer-letter builder and negotiation coaching

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