The Market Salary Search is TalentUp’s core benchmarking engine. It allows you to instantly look up the current market salary for any job role in any location worldwide, filtered by your company’s specific profile. Whether you’re setting a salary for a new hire, preparing an offer, or validating your current pay ranges, this tool gives you real-time, data-backed compensation intelligence.

How to Perform a Search

To search for a salary benchmark, fill in two required fields on the left-hand search panel:

Once you click Search, TalentUp returns a detailed benchmark report for that role and location combination.

Refining Your Search with Filters

Below the search button, you’ll find a Filters panel that lets you narrow the benchmark to match your company’s specific profile. These filters are automatically pre-populated with your Company Settings, but you can adjust them for any individual search.

After adjusting filters, click Apply to refresh the results. These filters ensure your benchmark reflects companies that are genuinely comparable to yours — not just the whole market average.

Reading the Benchmark Result

Once your search is complete, the right-hand panel displays the full benchmark report. Here’s what each section means:

The headline figure showing the current market median salary for the role and location. You can toggle between:

The bar below the headline shows the split between Base Salary and Average Stock Options.

This label tells you whether the talent market for this role in this location is:

A detailed breakdown of salary ranges across seniority levels (Junior, Mid, Senior, Lead), shown at P10, P25, P50, P75, and P90. You can toggle between:

Trends in talent availability and demand for the role, including supply/demand metrics and sector comparisons to help you understand the competitive landscape.

Shows how the salary for this role is expected to evolve over time, based on market trends. Useful for planning future compensation budgets.

From any benchmark result, you can click Add Employee to add this position directly to your Internal Pay Analysis roster, saving you from having to re-enter data manually.

Search History

Every search you unlock is saved in your Search History (visible on the right when no search is active). You can click on any previous search to instantly reload the benchmark report — no need to search again. Each history entry shows the role, location, active filters, and the date of the search.

💡 Note: Benchmark searches consume credits. Already-unlocked searches in your history can be reviewed at any time without additional cost.

Searching by Department or Category

Using the Search by tabs at the top of the search panel, you can switch from searching by Position (the default) to:

Common Use Cases