For compensation analysts and managers

Check minimum wages. Plan pay ranges.

Compensation Professional gives you free US minimum-wage checks and practical guides for setting pay.

1 · Check minimum wages · free

Check minimum wages

Free checks for up to 50 US locations. No account needed.

This is the legal wage floor, not a job-title salary estimate. Need market pay instead? Open Market Pay Benchmark in Compensation Toolbox and choose a job level and function.

Opens your results page, with effective dates, scheduled changes, source citations and a free CSV download.

Advanced: check many locations at once

One place per line: a city and state (Spokane, WA), a state (Texas or TX), or a location code (seattle-wa). Up to 50. A city with no minimum-wage rule of its own gets its state's rate, marked as such. Find your location code. Give a range minimum to flag any location where the legal floor already exceeds it, now or at the next scheduled change.

How the rates are sourced →

2 · Set a pay range

Read the guide free. Buy the take-away.

The minimum wage is a floor. Use the pay-structure guide to choose market evidence, job levels and salary bands.

The full guide is free to read; one-time $30 buys the take-away: PDF, EPUB, and 508 worked templates, checklists, and case bodies.

Read the pay-structure guide →

Take-away: one-time $30. No subscription.

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Check the sources behind wage rates and the references behind our pay guides. Published by Mike West.