Compensation benchmarking software that shows its work
Compensation benchmarking software turns market wage data into salary bands you can defend. The band lookup and posted-range generator work in the demo today, and launch adds an org-wide band builder, geo tiers and exports.
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- P25
- $0
- P50 ยท 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.
Get bands for your whole team
Get startedCompensation benchmarking features, cell by cell
Each cell says which plan it comes with. "In the demo today" means you can use it right now without an account; the rest ships with the named plan.
Salary band lookups
Pick a role, market, seniority and company stage and get a P25 / P50 / P75 base-salary band in seconds. Deterministic math on public U.S. BLS wage data, so the same inputs always return the same band.
Posted-range generator
Every band comes with a suggested posted range (P25 to P75, rounded to the nearest $1,000) and a copy-ready snippet for job postings in pay-transparency states.
Methodology transparency
The data source, every multiplier and the rounding rule are published on the how-it-works page and shipped in the calculator source. You can defend any number Wagelist gives you.
Band builder for the whole org
Build pay bands for every role and level you employ, not one lookup at a time. Group roles into job families, set band widths, and keep one consistent structure across the company.
Geo tiers
Define market tiers (national, Tier-1 metro, Tier-2 metro, remote) once and apply them across all bands, so a role pays consistently wherever you hire.
Exports
Export bands and posted ranges to CSV and PDF for offer approvals, board packs and compliance files. Your comp data stays portable.
Multi-entity and comp reviews
Run separate band sets per entity, brand or country unit, and work through comp-review cycles in a shared workspace with priority benchmark coverage.
Enterprise controls
SSO, roles and permissions, an audit log of band changes, an uptime SLA, a DPA and security review, plus invoicing and dedicated onboarding for compliance-driven teams.
Switching from spreadsheets and survey PDFs
If you benchmark in a spreadsheet today
You already have the right instinct: rows, roles, numbers. The problem is the inputs, usually a mix of job-board ranges and memory. Wagelist keeps the ledger format but swaps the guesses for published BLS-derived percentiles and fixed multipliers, then adds the posted range your spreadsheet never produced. Once the rows agree with each other, what you have is a salary structure rather than a list of one-off numbers.
If you buy survey PDFs today
Compensation surveys typically run $5,000 to $30,000 a year and arrive as static files that age from the day they land; we itemized those quotes in what a salary survey actually costs. Wagelist starts at $99 per month, self-serve, with the methodology in the open, built for teams under 200 that need a defensible number this week, not a procurement cycle. Teams facing posted-range rules should also read our pay transparency software page.
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