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Compensation Toolbox landing — run compensation without a comp team; drop-in comp capabilities for the tools you already use.

Compensation Toolbox landing — run compensation without a comp team; drop-in comp capabilities for the tools you already use.

Run compensation without a comp team. The comp-vertical sister to the People Analytics Toolbox — a self-serve store of drop-in compensation capabilities (pay ranges, market benchmarking, pay fairness, wage compliance), exported for the tools comp pros already run, with posted prices and a free tier. The same store shape as the PA Toolbox, every spoke pointed at pay.

The problem

Comp pros rebuild the same analyses every cycle in fragile spreadsheets — compa-ratios, market pricing, an adjusted pay gap, a range structure — each assembled by hand under deadline, none reproducible, all of it on point estimates with hidden error. Buying a full survey or a six-figure comp platform is overkill for the questions that actually recur. There's no middle: a defensible, drop-in capability you run on your own data, in the tool you already use.

What I built

Live at compensationtoolbox.com: the comp store — Field Kits and Plug-in Packs (one bounded analytic each, exported for Google Sheets, Excel, Power BI, Tableau), a problem → capability Workspace, two-minute comp wizards, and posted prices (no quotes). The comp catalog: Market Pay Benchmark (OEWS/SOC percentiles with explicit confidence intervals, observed vs. projected flagged), a Pay Pricing Field Kit (titles → SOC → market pay, uncertainty kept visible), Compa-Ratio & Range Penetration, Pay Equity Check (adjusted gap with Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition), Pay Range Designer, and a Wage-Compliance Checker for multi-jurisdiction minimum-wage and classification risk. Free to try; you graduate to AnyComp.AI when one job at a time stops being enough.

What's novel
  • 01The store model, pointed at pay. Every capability is a drop-in for the tool a comp pro already runs — Sheets, Excel, Power BI, Tableau — not another platform to migrate into. Posted prices, no quotes, a free tier: the People Analytics Toolbox commerce model, narrowed to compensation.
  • 02Government-grade data, not crowd-sourced guesses. Market pay anchors to BLS OEWS/SOC labor statistics with explicit confidence intervals and an observed-vs-projected basis flag — a market rate you can see the uncertainty on, the opposite of a salary-site point estimate wearing a suit.
  • 03Honest uncertainty as a feature. Every comp answer ships its own error bars and coverage — thinly-sourced roles are flagged, not smoothed over — so the number survives the calibration room.
  • 04A funnel, not a dead end. Self-serve capabilities are the front door; the org-wide AnyComp.AI concierge is the graduation, when pay has to be decided across all jobs and people at once rather than one capability at a time.
Outcome

Live at compensationtoolbox.com — the self-serve comp store (Field Kits, Plug-in Packs, Workspace, wizards, posted pricing) is public, sister to the People Analytics Toolbox. It is the comp-pro front door of a two-product comp line: self-serve store here, white-glove AnyComp.AI concierge above it.

Compensation Toolbox is the People Analytics Toolbox shape, narrowed to pay: a store of micro-services for everyone, not a platform for a few. The bet is that most comp questions a team actually has — what does this role pay, is our gap defensible, do our ranges hold, are we compliant here — are bounded analytics that should be drop-in tools in the spreadsheet you already live in, priced and posted, free to try. You enter on one capability; when one job at a time stops being enough, you graduate to the AnyComp.AI concierge that decides pay across the whole org.