Best Practices 2025: Salary data and market pricing
Market pricing is a pay methodology that starts with salary data for a job in a specific market. Using market salary data enables organizations to analyze what everyone else is paying for specific jobs in specific markets and establish pay ranges appropriate to their compensation strategy.

Learn how other organizations use salary data
The foundation of compensation management is salary data. Most organizations rely on multiple sources of market data to inform base pay structures and conduct job pricing. This guide is a summary of the responses to related to questions about salary data and market pricing asked in the 2025 Compensation Best Practices survey.