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Equity Resources

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Compensation Resources

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Equity Resources⁠

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Salary Surveys / Planning

I’ve written an

extensive guide on picking and implementing salary surveys here⁠

. Check it out!

On Free(mium sources): many of these data sources are based on user reported data or are public surveys that don’t give a lot of granular information.

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This comment on LinkedIn⁠

captured it perfectly: “free comp data always comes with a "shadow" price. which most of the time is accuracy.”

My recommendation is to defer to subscription/account based services but to refer to these for general grounding.

Compensation Resources

Compensation Resources

Resource

Link

Cost

Notes

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Radford

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Paid

Open

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Pave

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Paid

Open

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Advanced-HR

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/ Option Impact

Paid

Open

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Carta Total Comp

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Paid

Open

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Payfactors Market Data Reporting

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Paid

Open

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Kamsa

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Paid

Open

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ERI Salary Assessor

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Paid

Open

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Culpepper

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Paid

Open

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HiringPlan

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Paid

Open

Carta’s State of Startup Compensation (Q4 2023)

Free(mium)

Open

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Payscale’s Best Practices Compensation Report (2023)

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Free(mium)

Open

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Gitlab’s Compensation Calculator

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Free(mium)

Open

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Comp.fyi

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Free(mium)

Open

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Robert Half Salary Reports

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Free(mium)

Open

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Perl Meyer’s Intern Compensation Repor

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Free(mium)

Open

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Stack Overflow’s Annual Developer Survey

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Free(mium)

Open

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NerdWallet’s Cost of Living Calculator

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Free(mium)

Open

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LinkedIn’s Salary Tool

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Free(mium)

Open

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Sequoia’s 2020 Benefits Benchmarking Report

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Free(mium)

Open

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Dice Tech Salary Report

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Free(mium)

Open

Buffers Salary Calculator

Free(mium)

Open

Betts Recruiting Salary Survey

Free(mium)

Open

Betts Recruiting Equity Benchmarking

Free(mium)

Open

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Hired’s State of Salary Surveys

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Free(mium)

Open

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Hired’s (high level) Salary Calculator

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Free(mium)

Open

BuiltIn Market Reports (see notes)

Free(mium)

Open

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Barley (platform for managing comp cycles)

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Paid

Open

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Lattice Comp

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Paid

Open

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Compete

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Paid

Open

Pavillion: B2B Sales Benchmarks (2024)

Free(mium)

Open

Gapsquare: Pay Transparency by State

Free(mium)

Open

ICONIQ Reports (sales)

Free(mium)

Open

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For context on surveys,

this was a really good post⁠

about bias within different HR circles on given comp surveys. It’s good to get to know what surveys are commonly used by your peer group of companies.

Educational

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Kamsa: Compensation Roadmap⁠

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CompTool: A Guide to Developing a Compensation Philosophy⁠

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CompTool has a lot of great content across

their blog⁠

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Payscale: EU Directive on Compensation Transparency⁠

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Shelby Wolpa’s Guide on Pay Transparency⁠

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Compaas: Understanding Salary Bands and Job Grades⁠

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ERI: How to initiate Pay Transparency in your Compensation Program⁠

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Comp and Coffee⁠

(Podcast)

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Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation⁠

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Joshua Levy’s Guide to Equity Compensation⁠

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Coursera’s Managing Employee Compensation Course⁠

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Payscale’s Compensation Today resource center⁠

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Pay Up for Progress Toolkit⁠

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WorldatWork Pay Equity Resources⁠

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Good article:

The Impact of Pay Compression on Pay Equity⁠

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Creating an Effective Compensation Strategy⁠

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WorldAtWork:

Labor versus Living⁠

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Prosper Consulting - Cost of Living, Cost of Labor, and Inflation⁠

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ERI’s Common Compensation Terms Guide⁠

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ERI’s Internal and External Equity Primer⁠

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OpenComp’s Guide to Remote Compensation⁠

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CompensationForce⁠

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Recently, enjoyed this post⁠

on maxing out compensation bands

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Compensation Cafe⁠

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Why Salary Increases Do Not Keep Pace With Inflation⁠

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Layoffs.fyi Benefits Tracker⁠

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People Managing People: Why Pay Transparency Is A Good Business Practice And How To Approach It⁠

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World at Work: Why Pay Equity is more than a once-a-year statistical analysis⁠

(really great primer material)!

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The Definitive Guide to Pay and Benefits (Infographic Overview, Bersin)⁠

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Complete’s Compensation Philosophy Builder⁠

(has a lot of great questions to think about as you’re designing a philosophy)

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Assemble: Ebook Collection⁠

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Barley.io: A Step by Step Guide to Creating Pay Bands⁠

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Head-of-Total-Rewards-Report-2022-COEC.pdf

7.2 MB

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American Alliance of Museums: Museums and the Living Wage: How Filoli Developed a Bold Pay Equity Initiative⁠

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This is a great article about how nonprofits can improve their compensation programs. (Filoli is a nonprofit which I have been a member at).

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Lattice: Explaining Pay-for-Performance: Scripts for Managers to Use⁠

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PostHog - Compensation Calculator⁠

(similar to other open source ones that existed previously)

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Carta - overall compensation guide⁠

and

deeper dive on compensation philosophy⁠

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Plus,State of Startup Compensation

1H23⁠

and

1H24⁠

(report updated twice a year)

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Pay Transparency⁠

Guide by Konstantin Tskhay

Lattice:

Pay Transparency: How to Implement It and Get Executive Buy-In⁠

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Lattice:

How Inflation Affects Employee Compensation⁠

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Fledge:

Total Rewards Survey⁠

Example

Compete:

Founders Guide to Compensation⁠

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Career Paths / Leveling

General Frameworks

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Progression.fyi⁠

(career ladders from various orgs)

Notable examples

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Monzo’s Progression Framework⁠

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CircleCi’s Engineering Competency Matrix⁠

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Envoy’s Bands and Principles⁠

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Radford’s Guide to Global Job Leveling⁠

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Greenhouse: How to Understand the ROI of Investing in People⁠

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Lattice: Career Path Ratios⁠

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CharlieHR: Building a Career Progression Framework⁠

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Figures: Job Leveling: How does it work and free leveling frameworks⁠

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Buffer: Level and Step Placement Guide⁠

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Juro: Career framework⁠

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Sales Compensation

Pssst! I have a pretty in depth guide to incentive comp on

my labs site⁠

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Sales Hacker’s Compensation Blueprint⁠

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Xactly’s Blog⁠

(lots of other posts, but this is a good one)

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The Sales Development Playbook⁠

by Trish Bertuzzi

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Anaplan’s Guide to Incentive Compensation for Sales⁠

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SaaStr:

A Framework for your First SaaS Sales Compensation Plan⁠

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HRSoft’s Compensation Strategy Development Guide⁠

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Pave: Getting to 50 / 50 - the data behind sales compensation⁠

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Compensation, Equity and Leveling Frameworks

⁠💸⁠ Compensation Resources

Salary Surveys / Planning

Educational

Career Paths / Leveling

General Frameworks

Sales Compensation

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Compensation Resources