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Make offers candidates accept.
Anchor every offer to the market median, not a job-board guess. You stop losing good people over a number you could have known in five minutes.
Benchmarks on public BLS data
Salary benchmarking software
Salary benchmarking software for teams under 200
Wagelist turns public U.S. BLS wage data into defensible pay bands and a compliant posted salary range for 66 common office and tech roles. Build a real band first, no email address needed.
- Compensation benchmarking without the $15,000 survey
- P25, P50 and P75 base salary, plus a posting-ready range
- No credit card, no sales call
Pay band builder
U.S. BLS OES, May 2024
- P25
- $0
- P50 · Median
- $0
- P75
- $0
Suggested posted range
Built from public U.S. BLS OES wage data (May 2024 release), adjusted for market, seniority and company stage by the multipliers published in our methodology.
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Software Engineer
$130,500
Mobile Engineer
$129,000
Data Engineer
$127,000
QA Engineer
$101,000
Network Engineer
$129,500
Engineering Manager
$171,000
Inside Sales Representative
$51,000
Customer Success Manager
$80,000
Marketing Manager
$148,000
SEO Specialist
$65,000
Growth Marketer
$94,000
Copywriter
$72,000
Program Manager
$110,000
Logistics Coordinator
$54,000
Accountant
$80,000
Controller
$156,000
Tax Accountant
$85,000
UX Designer
$95,500
Graphic Designer
$59,000
Technical Support Engineer
$68,000
- 01 BLS OES public wage data
- 02 Methodology published
- 03 Compensation benchmarking for teams under 200
Why Wagelist
Four things you stop guessing
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Post compliant salary ranges.
Transparency laws in a growing list of states require salary ranges in job postings. Generate a posting-ready range you can defend.
03
Build pay bands for the whole team.
Set salary bands for every role and level in one sitting. When someone asks why a number is what it is, you have an answer.
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Skip the $15k survey.
Survey vendors charge $5,000 to $30,000 for a static file that is stale on arrival. Wagelist starts at $99 per month, self-serve.
How it works
Three steps to a defensible band
Step 01
Pick the role.
Search about 60 common roles across engineering, sales, marketing, ops, finance, design, support and HR.
Step 02
Pick market and level.
US National, Tier-1 or Tier-2 metro, or Remote. Then set seniority and company stage.
Step 03
Get your band and posted range.
P25, P50 and P75 base salary, plus a posting-ready range you can copy into the job ad.
New to this? Read how to benchmark salaries, step by step, including the full methodology.
For HR directors and CFOs
Compliance has a deadline. Guessing has a cost.
The EU Pay Transparency Directive must be written into member-state law by June 2026. In the US, posted-range laws already run in Colorado, California, New York, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington DC. Every posting and every offer needs a number you can defend. That is the job of pay transparency software, built on a company-wide salary structure.
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EU directive, transposition deadline
June 2026
02
US states with posted-range laws
CO CA NY WA IL +
03
Survey vendors, per survey
$5,000 to $30,000
04
Wagelist Growth, per year
$3,588
Survey figures are the real category range. Wagelist figures are our pricing.
The worked example
A widely used HR estimate puts the cost of one mis-hire at about 30 percent of first-year pay. Run that against a year of Wagelist:
One mis-hire, $90,000 role
$27,000
A year of Wagelist Growth
$3,588
Left in your budget
$23,412
Enterprise signals
- SSO
- Roles and permissions
- Audit log
- SLA
- DPA and security review
- Invoicing
All part of the Enterprise tier.
Cost check
What does salary data cost you today?
Survey vendor, per year
$15,000
Wagelist Growth, per year
$3,588
$299 per month
Kept in your budget
$11,412
Assumes a $15,000 survey line item, the midpoint of the $5,000 to $30,000 vendors charge per survey.
Survey and mis-hire figures are real category estimates. Wagelist pricing is our pricing.
The honest comparison
Where Wagelist fits, and where it does not
Payscale, Pave and the big survey vendors are good tools for the companies they were built for. Most of those companies are not yours. Full write-ups: Payscale alternative, Pave alternative, Mercer salary benchmarking, Salary.com alternative and Carta Total Comp alternative, plus the full roundup of compensation management software.
| Wagelist | Payscale | Survey vendors (Mercer, Radford) | Pave | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price anchor | From $99/mo | About $10k to $25k+ per year | $5,000 to $30,000 per survey | Paid suite; entry tier requires HRIS data sharing |
| Self-serve? | Yes. Sign up and build a band | No. Sales-led | No. You buy a file | Partly. Connect your HRIS first |
| Contract | Monthly or yearly | Annual contract | Per survey, refreshed yearly | Annual for the paid suite |
| HRIS required? | No | No, but setup is heavy | No | Yes, for benchmarks |
| Built for teams under 200 | Yes. That is the whole point | Built for enterprise comp teams | Built for dedicated comp analysts | Skews to funded tech startups |
Based on public pricing and sales pages as of mid-2026. Spot an error? Email us and we will fix it.
You might be thinking...
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"Do I have to talk to sales first?" No. You create your account, build bands and pick a plan yourself. A person is involved only on Enterprise, when you ask for one.
02
"Can I defend these numbers?" Bands are built from public U.S. BLS wage data with published multipliers. You can show your work to a board or an auditor.
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"My roles are unusual." The dataset covers about 60 common roles today. Coverage grows every month. Tell us what you need and we will prioritize it.
Pricing
Priced for teams under 200, not procurement
Full detail on the salary benchmarking cost page.
Starter
$99/mo
$79/mo billed yearly
Founders making a few offers a quarter.
- 25 benchmarked roles
- Band lookups
- Posted-range generator
Most popular
Growth
$299/mo
$239/mo billed yearly
HR teams building full pay bands.
- Unlimited roles
- Band builder for the whole org
- Exports and geo tiers
Scale
$799/mo
$639/mo billed yearly
Multi-team, multi-market comp reviews.
- Everything in Growth
- Multi-entity workspaces
- Comp-review workspace, priority benchmarks
Enterprise
Talk to sales
Custom yearly pricing
200+ employees, compliance-driven.
- SSO, roles and permissions
- SLA, DPA and security review
- Invoicing, dedicated onboarding
FAQ
Fair questions, honest answers
01 Where does the data come from?
Sample bands are derived from public U.S. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2024), adjusted with documented market, seniority and company-stage multipliers. The methodology is published, so you can check our work.
02 How accurate is it?
BLS OES is the largest public wage survey in the United States, so the base percentiles are solid. Our multipliers are estimates and we say so. For most roles at a company under 200 people, that gets you a defensible band instead of a guess.
03 How do I get started?
Create your account with your work email, confirm it from the link we send, and benchmark your first role free. Pick a plan when you need more than one band.
04 How much does it cost?
Starter is $99 a month, Growth $299 and Scale $799, each cheaper billed yearly. Enterprise is priced per company. Full detail on the pricing page.
05 Is my email safe?
We store your email, the bands you save and the page you signed up from. Card details go to Stripe and never reach us. We do not sell your data and we send no marketing beyond account email. Details in our privacy policy.
06 Does it cover my country and my roles?
The data is US only, since BLS is a US source, and covers about 60 common roles. We expand markets and role coverage every month. Tell us what you need and we will prioritize it.
Want the longer version, starting with what is salary benchmarking? It is all on the FAQ page.