TalentUp is a salary benchmarking and compensation intelligence platform built for HR teams who need reliable, current market data to make fair and competitive pay decisions. It gives you a single workspace to benchmark any role, analyze your team’s compensation health, research competitors, and build the pay transparency reports required by law.
The TalentUp platform: a single workspace for salary benchmarking, internal pay analysis, competitive intelligence, and compliance.
Why TalentUp?
Traditional salary surveys are expensive, slow, and often outdated before you can act on them. TalentUp replaces that cycle with a continuously updated database and analytics tools that surface insights you can use immediately.
With TalentUp you can:
Benchmark any role in any location against live market data in seconds
See how your entire team’s compensation compares to the external market
Identify employees at risk of leaving due to below-market pay before they resign
Detect and report on gender pay gaps and internal salary inequities
Research how specific companies structure their compensation packages
Compare salaries across multiple roles and locations side by side
Produce the data and reports needed to comply with the EU Pay Transparency Directive
Who is TalentUp For?
TalentUp is designed for everyone involved in compensation decisions:
HR Managers and HR Business Partners: benchmark your team’s full salary data, run pay equity audits, and generate compliance reports
Compensation and Benefits Specialists: build market-aligned salary bands, validate pay ranges, and keep compensation data current
Recruiters and Talent Acquisition Teams: set competitive offers, understand what different markets pay, and avoid losing candidates to better-paying competitors
CFOs and Finance Leaders: plan compensation budgets with accurate market data and understand total compensation costs across the organization
Founders and People Leaders at Growing Companies: build a fair, competitive compensation framework from day one without relying on expensive consultants or outdated salary surveys
The Four Core Features
TalentUp is organized around four main tools, all accessible from the top navigation bar:
Feature
What it does
Internal Pay Analysis
Upload your team’s salary data and benchmark every position against the live market. Get Compa Ratios, risk labels, and a full pay equity insights dashboard.
Market Salary Search
Search the market salary for any job role in any location. Get a detailed Pay Table, market balance indicator, supply and demand data, and pay trajectory.
Company Finder
Look up salary and workforce data for specific companies, ideal for competitive intelligence and offer negotiations.
Compare Salaries
Run side-by-side salary comparisons across up to 10 roles and 10 locations simultaneously, anchored to a reference location.
Key Platform Concepts
Salary Benchmarking
A salary benchmark is a reference data point showing what the market pays for a specific role, in a specific location, for a specific type of company. TalentUp’s benchmarks are built from a continuously updated database covering 650+ job roles in 200+ locations worldwide.
Percentiles
Salary data is expressed in percentiles (P10 to P90), which show where a salary falls within the market distribution:
P10: only 10% of professionals in this role and location earn less than this amount (very low end of market)
P50: the market median; 50% earn more, 50% earn less. The standard reference for “competitive” pay
P75: this salary is above 75% of the market, reflecting above-average, talent-attracting pay
P90: only 10% of professionals earn more than this, representing the top of market
Your company’s compensation philosophy determines which percentile you target. Most organizations position between P50 and P75 depending on the role and talent market.
The Compa Ratio (Compensation Ratio) shows how an individual employee’s salary compares to the market median for their role and location. A ratio of 1.00 means they are paid exactly at market median. Below 1.00 means below market; above 1.00 means above market. This is the primary metric used in Internal Pay Analysis to assess your team’s compensation health at a glance.
Company Settings are global filters that ensure every benchmark reflects your company’s actual peer group: your sector, company type, size, and funding stage. Configuring these correctly is the first step to getting meaningful results. They apply automatically to all searches across the platform and can be updated at any time from the Dashboard.
TalentUp and the EU Pay Transparency Directive
The EU Pay Transparency Directive (2023/970) requires companies operating in EU member states to report on gender pay gaps, disclose salary information to employees, and demonstrate pay equity. TalentUp is built to support these obligations by providing:
Gender pay gap calculations and visual reports
Pay-by-quartile breakdowns across your workforce
Compa Ratio analysis to identify and address pay inequities
Market benchmarking data to justify and document salary decisions
See Section 5: Implement Salary Transparency for a dedicated guide on using TalentUp for Pay Transparency compliance.
World’s leading Salary Benchmarking Solution
TalentUp helps companies handle salaries effectively by offering clear, compliant, and data-based information that allows teams to create successful pay strategies and follow transparency rules.
