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Survey smarter. Pay smarter.
Pay Decisions Backed by Real Data. For Every Organization.
CompVey is the AI-enabled total compensation survey built for organizations that need defensible market data — without the big-survey price tag or the six-month wait. Submit your census, let AI match your jobs, and get total compensation benchmarks backed by the consultants at HR Data Labs.
Merit · COLA · structure movement · steps · incentive usage — every participant gets the full report free. Closes December 1.
Weeks, not monthsFrom census to results
AI job matchingYour titles, our benchmarks
Total compensationBase, incentives, benefits, PTO
35+ yearsOf survey & comp expertise
Why CompVey
Everything You Need to Benchmark Pay. Nothing You Don’t.
Quick
Traditional surveys take months and a committee. CompVey’s AI matches your job titles to benchmarks, validates your submission on the spot, and turns participation into results in weeks.
Affordable
Participation-based pricing at a fraction of what the major published surveys cost. No five-figure subscriptions, no consultant retainers just to see the data.
Complete
Total compensation means total: base pay, ranges, incentives, overtime, benefits, time off, and allowances — so you can compare the whole package, not just the salary line.
AI-Enabled Benchmarking
The Hard Parts of Survey Work, Handled by AI.
Anyone who has submitted to a comp survey knows where the time goes: matching your titles to someone else’s job catalog, chasing down data errors, waiting for the publisher’s cycle. CompVey’s AI does that work.
- AI job matching. Submit your census with your own titles — CompVey matches them to benchmark jobs and shows its reasoning, so one organization’s “Office Administrator” and another’s “Office Manager” land in the same benchmark.
- Data validation on intake. Pay-unit mismatches, outliers, and missing fields get flagged before they skew results — not discovered after publication.
- Cuts and reports on demand. Filter by industry, size, region, and job family. Generate the comparison you need today, not the one printed last spring.
- Always current. Data refreshes continuously as organizations participate, instead of aging for a year between editions.
Compliance Ready
Built for the Pay Transparency Era.
Pay transparency laws now reach private employers in a growing list of states — posting ranges, defending them, and documenting how you got there. CompVey was built in the public sector, where every pay decision is already public, so defensibility is in its bones.
Salary range documentation templates
State-by-state transparency tracking
Methodology you can hand to anyone
Reporting for boards & executives
Practices Surveys
Practices Answers in Hours. Not Days. Not Weeks.
Pay numbers tell you what the market pays — practices tell you how the market pays. And practices data has never been harder to get. The big surveys publish it once a year, long after the question came up. Networking groups and listservs get you a handful of anecdotes. Calling around gets you whatever five peers remember off the top of their heads. By the time you’ve gathered anything defensible, the decision has already been made.
CompVey spins up a practices survey in hours. Ask the questions comp committees actually ask — and get answers while the question is still on the table.
Standing Practices Benchmarks
Every participant answers the core practices questionnaire: merit budgets (this year’s actual, next year’s plan), 401(k) match and auto-enrollment, pension status, pay structures — steps, grades, broadbands — skill premiums, shift differentials, remote-work pay policy, and pay transparency practices by state. Always current, cut by industry, size, and sector.
Quick Pulse Surveys
Have a question the standing benchmarks don’t cover? We draft it with you, push it to the CompVey participant network, and return results as responses land — in hours, not the weeks a custom survey used to take. “What are you budgeting for merit in 2026?” shouldn’t be a six-week project.
Answers You Can Defend
Every practices statistic shows its sample: how many organizations, which industries and sizes, and when they answered. No statistic publishes from fewer than five organizations. It’s the difference between “I heard most companies match 4%” and a number you can put in front of a board.
Expert Consulting
Data Is Just the Starting Point.
CompVey is built and run by HR Data Labs — compensation consultants, not just software vendors. When the numbers raise questions, the people who built the survey help you answer them.
Compensation Analysis
Our consultants work from the full CompVey database plus additional benchmarking sources to answer your specific questions.
Deep Expertise
35+ years across private, public, and nonprofit compensation: pay structures, incentive design, union environments, job classification, and total rewards.
Beyond the Survey
From a targeted market check to a complete pay structure build, consulting engagements scale to what you actually need.
Who It’s For
Built for the people who have to defend the number.
HR Directors & Comp Managers
“You have to fill the seat.”
Recruit and retain with current market rates, compare against the organizations you actually lose people to, and let AI handle the job matching.
CFOs & Finance Leaders
“You have to budget the payroll.”
Forecast personnel costs with current, market-specific data instead of last year’s survey and a guess.
CEOs & Founders
“You have to pay competitively without a comp team.”
Get defensible ranges for every role at a price a growing company can justify.
Government & Public-Sector Leaders
“You have to answer to the public.”
The platform that started as CountyCompSurvey still serves counties, municipalities, and agencies — now with an even bigger dataset behind it.
Proven in the most demanding comp environment there is.
CompVey grew out of CountyCompSurvey and GovCompSurvey — benchmarking platforms built with the Maine County Commissioners Association, where pay data has to survive union negotiations, public records requests, and elected-official scrutiny. 1,000+ positions benchmarked and growing. Built and operated by HR Data Labs LLC.
Better Compensation Data for Your Organization.
See how CompVey turns a census file into defensible total compensation benchmarks — quickly, affordably, and with experts behind every number.