Your client needs pay ranges for their first formal compensation structure. Instead of starting from scratch, CompAnalyst matches jobs to real-world market data and generates benchmarked salary bands in a single session. CompAnalyst handles the heavy liftingājob matching and range creationādrawing from 800 million HR-reported data points across 15,000 roles, 225 industries, and 42,000 geographies. That means youāre not guessing or generalizingāyouāre working with data that reflects the actual market your client competes in. Export presentation-ready visuals directly from the platform to walk your client through the logic with clarity and confidence. What used to take weeks of manual research now happens in an afternoonāfreeing you up to focus on implementation, communication, and change management.
Salary.com
Enterprise-grade compensation data and AI-powered solutions that help fractional HR leaders deliver faster, more defensible pay strategies.
Salary.com gives fractional HR leaders the data to deliver evidence-backed compensation strategies. Our unified Total Compensation Management platform brings together market data, compensation planning, job architecture, and pay equity analysisāso you can deliver enterprise-level expertise without building infrastructure from scratch.
Our solutions include:
- CompAnalyst
- Benchmark jobs, model salary structures, and analyze pay equity in one platform. Presentation-ready outputs make it easy to communicate decisions clearly with leadership.
- CompXL Compensation Planning
- Move beyond spreadsheet chaos. CompXL combines the flexibility of spreadsheets with structured workflows to manage merit increases, bonuses, equity, and total rewardsāwhile giving leadership real-time visibility into spend.
- CompAnalyst Pay Equity Suite
- Identify, understand, and address pay disparities with confidence. Analyze comparable roles, model internal equity, surface gaps, and generate audit-ready insights that support fair, defensible decisions.
- JobArchitect
- Build and manage scalable job architecture with structured content, market alignment, and AI-guided workflowsāso every role fits within a consistent, defensible framework.
- SalaryIQ
- Tap into real-time intelligence from millions of job postings across 35+ countries. Understand competitive pay, identify hiring trends, and forecast workforce needs with current market signals.
- And More
- Backed by 25+ years of innovation, Salary.com continues to advance compensation with AI, native integrations, and new solutions designed to make your work faster, more efficient, and better connected.
Whether you're advising a startup on its first compensation framework or helping a scaling company navigate pay transparency requirements, Salary.com gives you the credibility, speed, and scalability to support multiple clients with confidence.
Stop piecing together data from disconnected sources. Start delivering compensation strategies that stand up to executive scrutiny and evolving regulatory expectations.
"CompAnalyst AI Suite is proving to be a valuable planning resource. It enables the team to efficiently analyze large volumes of job descriptions that would otherwise take months to sort through manually."
Fractional People People and Salary.com
Fractional People leaders are building the future of work one client at a time. You're designing compensation frameworks, navigating pay equity conversations, and advising executives on talent strategyāoften without the internal resources that full-time teams rely on.
Salary.com exists to close that gap.
We believe fractional practitioners deserve the same enterprise-grade tools that Fortune 500 companies use. Not stripped-down versions. Not DIY spreadsheets. Real infrastructure that helps you move from opinion to evidence, from reactive firefighting to proactive strategy.
We share FPP's values of abundance, joy, and human-centered work. We align with that vision by making compensation fairer, more transparent, and more defensible. When pay is done right, trust grows. Employees feel valued. Organizations thrive. That's the outcome we're building toward together.
Our partnership with FPP is about equipping you with what you need to show up confidently for every client conversation. Fast access to market data. AI that accelerates your analysis. Solutions that help you build repeatable frameworks instead of starting from scratch each time.
You chose the fractional path for a reasonāflexibility, impact, ownership. We're here to make sure compensation never becomes the bottleneck to the work you want to do.
Through our partnership with FPP, we offer exclusive consultant access to Salary.comāso you can use CompAnalyst and market data in a low-risk, three-month engagement. And when your client is ready to scale, youāre not starting over: you can transition them onto Salary.com with a referral fee that recognizes the value youāve created.
Use Cases
The CEO wants to know if their top performer is at risk of leaving for a higher offer. Instead of guessing, pull real-time market data in minutes. CompAnalyst's 800M+ HR-reported data points let you benchmark any role against specific geographies, company sizes, and industries. Show your client exactly where they standāand what it would take to stay competitive. The data is traceable, defensible, and audit-ready, so you can back up your recommendation if the board asks questions. For fractional leaders managing multiple clients, this kind of speed-to-insight is what reinforces your role as a trusted, strategic advisor.
A client preparing for a funding round needs to demonstrate fair, defensible pay practices. The Pay Equity Suite analyzes compensation across gender, race, and other factors to surface potential disparities earlyābefore they become compliance concerns. Generate audit-ready reports that clearly show where adjustments may be needed and why, giving stakeholders confidence in the approach. For fractional leaders, this means adding high-value equity analysis to your services without building statistical models from scratchāprotecting your clients while reinforcing your role as a forward-looking advisor.
Merit cycle season hits, and your client is juggling manager requests, budget constraints, and approval workflows. CompXL centralizes the entire processāmerit increases, bonus planning, equity grants, and total rewardsāin one secure platform. Managers follow guided workflows. Leadership gets real-time visibility into spend. You stay focused on advising, not tracking down spreadsheets. For fractional practitioners supporting multiple clients, this kind of scalability matters. You can build repeatable processes across organizationsāreducing administrative lift while increasing your strategic impact.
Your client needs to add salary ranges to job postingsāand theyāre starting from zero. Salary.com helps you build defensible, market-aligned ranges fast, without guessing or overcorrecting. You get access to wage data across every level, plus tools to generate compliant postings tied to real market positioning. For fractional leaders working across states, this is how you stay ahead of shifting requirementsāwithout getting pulled into legal complexity.
Your client is hiring fast, but roles are inconsistent and loosely defined. JobArchitect helps you create and manage job descriptions aligned with market data and internal leveling, without starting from scratch. You can build a clear, scalable structure where every new role fits instead of reinventing the wheel each time. For fractional leaders, this is how you deliver lasting impact, putting real structure in place and moving on without leaving a mess behind.