TalentUp | Salary Benchmarking Platform Documentation

The Market Salary Search is TalentUp’s core benchmarking tool. It gives you the current market salary for any job role in any location, filtered to match your company’s specific profile. Use it when setting a salary for a new hire, preparing a compensation offer, validating your pay ranges, or exploring what different markets pay for roles you are planning to hire.

Market Salary Search interface showing search fields for Position and Location, filter options, and search history with previous searches — The Market Salary Search: enter a role and location, apply filters to match your peer group, and get a full salary benchmark report.

How to Perform a Search

Fill in two required fields in the search panel on the left:

Position: type a job title such as “Frontend Developer”, “Data Scientist”, or “Marketing Manager”. TalentUp will suggest matching roles from its database as you type. You can also enable Match description to search using a free-text job description instead of a title, which is useful for hybrid or non-standard roles.

Location: enter a city or country such as “Barcelona”, “United Kingdom”, or “Dubai”. The benchmark will reflect compensation in that specific talent market.

Click Search to generate the benchmark report.

Refining Your Search with Filters

The Filters panel below the search button narrows the benchmark to companies that match your organization’s profile. These are pre-populated from your Company Settings but can be adjusted for any individual search. Changing filters here does not affect your global Company Settings.

Filter	What it does
Search by	Switch between searching by Position, Department, Category, or Location
Sector	Filter by industry (for example, Fintech, Healthcare, or SaaS)
Type	Company type: Startup, Scaleup, International, IT Consultancy, Research/SMB
Number of employees	Set the company size range you want to compare against
Funding (€)	Set the funding stage range to benchmark against comparable companies
Peer group	Select specific companies to use as a custom peer benchmark reference

Click Apply after adjusting filters to refresh the results. Well-configured filters are important: they ensure you are comparing against companies your candidates actually consider, not the entire market.

Reading the Benchmark Result

The right-hand panel shows the full benchmark report once your search is complete. Each section gives you a different perspective on the data:

Total Market Compensation

The headline figure is the current market salary for the role and location at the selected percentile. Use the controls to adjust what you see:

Median / Mean: switch between the midpoint and the average of the dataset

Percentile selector: view the salary at P10, P25, P50, P75, or P90 to position your offer relative to the market

The bar below the headline shows the split between Base Salary and Average Stock Options, giving you a view of total compensation rather than just cash.

Market Balance Indicator

This label reflects current talent supply and demand for the role in this location:

Balanced Market: supply and demand are in equilibrium, typical hiring conditions apply

High Demand: more companies are competing for this role than there are available candidates; expect longer time-to-fill and upward salary pressure

High Supply: more candidates are available than open positions; you have more flexibility on compensation

Pay Table by Level

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

Salary / Bonus / Stock: view each compensation component separately

Gross / Net: see gross or net figures

Current Quarter / Historical: use the most recent data or review salary trends over time

Market Insights

Supply and demand metrics and sector comparisons that give you context on how competitive the hiring environment is for this role. Useful when deciding how aggressively to position your salary offer.

Pay Trajectory

A forward-looking view of how salaries for this role are expected to evolve based on market trends. Use this when planning compensation budgets for the year ahead or forecasting the cost of a new hire over time.

Add & Compare

From any benchmark result you can click Add Employee to add this position directly to your Internal Pay Analysis roster, so you do not have to re-enter data manually when you switch between tools.

Search History

Every benchmark you unlock is saved in your Search History, visible in the right-hand panel when no search is active. Click any entry to reload that benchmark instantly. Each history item shows the role, location, active filters, and the date of the search.

Note: unlocking a benchmark consumes credits. Benchmarks already in your search history can be reviewed at any time at no additional cost.

Searching by Department or Category

The Search by tabs at the top of the search panel let you switch from searching by Position (the default) to broader groupings:

Department: search all roles within a department such as Engineering or Marketing

Category: search by functional area such as Backend Development or UX Design

Location: browse all available benchmarks for a given city or country

Common Use Cases

Setting a competitive offer: search the role and location before extending an offer to confirm your salary is within the market range, reducing the risk of a rejected offer or an overpaid hire

Validating existing pay ranges: check that your salary bands are still market-aligned, especially in fast-moving sectors like technology where pay can shift significantly quarter to quarter

Preparing for salary reviews: bring objective market evidence into review cycles so that raise and promotion decisions are grounded in data, not subjective judgment

Exploring new hiring markets: planning to open a role in a new city or country? Search that location first to understand what competitive pay looks like and factor it into your hiring budget

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2.1. Market Salary Search