Compensation IQ vs Culpepper Compensation Surveys

Compensation IQ is a web platform for People teams handling job architecture, salary benchmarking, and EU Pay Transparency work. Its benchmarking data covers 5m+ companies, 80k+ job titles, 100+ countries, and 100+ industries, combining job postings, self-reported data, real-time customer data, and optional Mercer datasets. Job Architecture provides 14 levels, 3 tracks, 34 job families, 21,000+ titles, and 30+ external frameworks. Salary tools include precision filters, a salary-band builder, pay-review tools, and audit trails. The EU product generates Article 7 responses, seven Article 9 metrics, adjusted and unadjusted gender pay gaps, and Article 18 traceability records across all 27 EU Member States, with multi-country, language, and currency support. More than 50 HRIS integrations are listed, alongside CSV upload, API access, real-time refresh, job matching, and pay-equity analysis. Subscriptions include onboarding, training, customer success management, and UK business-hours help. Pricing starts at £2,500/yr.

Culpepper Compensation Surveys provides web-based global market data for organizations benchmarking jobs and making compensation decisions. Coverage is grouped by function, including executive, engineering, healthcare, life sciences, operations, professional services, sales and technology. Outputs include base salaries, pay ranges, allowances, short- and long-term incentives, hourly pay and shift differentials. Customizable reports offer data cuts and filters, statistical measures, and comparisons of an organization's compensation data with market figures. Culpepper reports coverage across more than 70 countries and global regions, including location-specific data cuts and geographic pay zones. The company says it gathers and updates data year-round and publishes new datasets at the beginning of each month. Subscribers must provide current compensation data for employees in jobs and locations covered by their license. Once participation requirements are met and data is imported, online reports can identify jobs above or below market rates. The company says survey data is published in anonymized, aggregate form and customized reports with company or employee data are restricted to authorized licensed users. Pricing is on request; standard licenses include essential support, while premium licenses include professional survey services.