Compensation Professional↗ compensationprofessional.com
Compensation Professional — the persona front for whoever owns pay without a comp function behind them.
The persona site for the person who owns pay without a comp function behind them — the comp analyst and the total-rewards generalist who inherited the ranges and the questions that come with them.
Pay is the one HR domain where being wrong is both expensive and provable, and it is routinely owned by someone with no specialist bench, no market model they can defend, and a survey cut they cannot interrogate. The reference material that exists is either vendor content selling a benchmark or academic work that never reaches the desk.
Live at compensationprofessional.com: a persona front built on the shared writers'-desk shell — the second reference instance of it — carrying the comp corpus, guides syndicated from the bicycle.guide control plane, and the comp lane of the portfolio's library. Aliases 308 to the primary; satellite domains are mapped in the toolbox domain map.
- 01A persona site, not a product site. The unit is the reader's job, not a SKU — the same corpus and guide engine every property runs, scoped to one professional identity so the SEO and the trust both compound in one place.
- 02Pay framed as explicability rather than equality. The editorial line is that every pay difference should be explainable against profit or job success — which makes transparency the exam you pass once the system is right, not the lever that fixes it.
- 03Shared shell, zero bespoke surface. It consumes the same desk shell, library kit, and guide distribution as its sibling fronts, so a change to the engine reaches it without a port.
Live and measured live (27 commits in the last year, ~5.3k LoC — a thin shell over shared engines, which is the point). It is the comp vertical's canonical home, so the comp catalog that used to dilute peopleanalyst.com has a real destination.
This site exists because of a placement rule the portfolio learned the hard way: peopleanalyst.com carries people-analytics content only, and every other vertical needs one canonical home rather than a shelf on the hub. Comp was the first vertical shed, and it turned out the shed content was strong enough to be a property.