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Tech Brief: Compensation Tool

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Tech Brief: Compensation Tool

Squirrel is a real-time wage and salary data solution offered by Compensation Tool, an industry-leading benchmarking and salary survey management tool.  Squirrel offers a searchable database of more than 3.5M jobs with real-time salary data in the US, expanding internationally later in 2022.  Unlike traditional salary surveys based on incumbent data, Squirrel is composed of hiring ranges advertised in job postings giving Squirrel the unique advantage of being able to provide real-time data, searchable by company.

For those of you that follow our research in the area of compensation, this kind of product/capability fits right into our research on Compensation Data and Technology providers. We expect to see this area of “emerging data sources” to expand quickly in the near future.

Read the full Tech Brief on the Squirrel product from Compensation Tool

Ben Eubanks

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Ben Eubanks, CEO & Head of Research

Ben Eubanks leads research at Lighthouse Research & Advisory. He is the author of Artificial Intelligence for HR, host of the We're Only Human podcast, and a keynote speaker on AI, talent, and the future of work.

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