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Our Company's Story

Salary.com connects people, pay and performance through integrated data and technology that helps employers achieve greater results in the workplace. Salary.com solutions empower business executives and HR professionals to attract, motivate, and retain the talent critical for business success.

Empowering Meaningful Discussions about Pay and Performance
Today, it's typical for both employees and employers to have access to information about compensation, but that wasn't always the case. In 1999, Salary.com's CEO Kent Plunkett had a vision for making compensation data accessible and building on-demand software and tools to enable better, more informed discussions between employers and employees about people, pay and performance. Salary.com was born out of a need for individuals and employers alike to have equal access to previously shrouded pay information. By creating compensation data, tools and software for employers and individuals, Salary.com fulfilled several long-neglected compensation and performance-related needs.

Evolution as a Leading Provider of Human Resources Software
In 2001, Salary.com expanded its offerings with on-demand human resources software, recognizing the need for HR departments to play a more strategic role in the business process and develop sound business cases for talent management programs that link pay to performance. The company introduced new tools to automate, streamline and optimize critical talent management processes including:
  • payroll, benefits, and HR administration
  • market pricing
  • compensation planning
  • performance management
  • competency management
  • learning and development
  • succession planning
Built with compensation and competency data at the core, Salary.com solutions provide businesses of all sizes with the most productive and cost-effective way to manage and inspire their most important asset -- their people.