Pay too little and your best people leave. Pay too much and you're bleeding budget.
With Wage Magic, you can hit the sweet spot every time.
Perfect for analysts exploring compensation trends
For HR teams and compensation professionals
Everything in Wage Magic, plus:
Tailored solutions for large organizations
Everything in Premium, plus:
Traditional surveys cost $5,000–$25,000 each. Enterprise platforms run $27,000–$75,000+ per year. Those prices made sense when the only way to get compensation data was to fund a national employer survey. That's not the only way anymore.
| What You'd Otherwise Need | Typical Cost | What Wage Magic Does Instead |
|---|---|---|
| Roles You'd Need to Hire | ||
| Software Engineer | $95/hr | Cloud hosting, data pipelines, database builds, public data repos |
| Data Engineer | $80/hr | Automated ingestion from verified sources, updated daily |
| Data Scientist / Economist | $75/hr | NLP classification engine & labor market forecasting, built in |
| BI Analyst / Comp Specialist | $50/hr | Dashboards, data visuals, and pay-equity analysis on demand |
| Tools & Services You'd Need to Buy | ||
| Comp-survey subscriptions | $20k–$60k/yr | Live percentiles — no more static Radford / Culpepper PDFs |
| External pay-equity audit | $15k–$40k/cycle | Instant gap analysis + exportable board deck |
| Executive comp consultants | $250–$400/hr | Built-in equity pacing & peer-group medians |
| Custom HRIS dashboards | $8k–$25k one-off | Plug-and-play dashboards & nightly data drops |
| Hidden Costs You'd Incur | ||
| Recruiting agency mark-up | 20–30% of 1st-yr salary | Competitive offers reduce time-to-fill & agency reliance |
| Pay-range compliance fines | Up to $10k/posting | Range generator keeps every listing compliant |
| Offer renegotiations | 2–4 weeks lost | Real-time data minimizes lowball / overpay errors |
| Employee churn from pay opacity | $40k rehiring cost | Shareable reports boost trust & retention |
| Spreadsheet maintenance | 5–10 HR hrs/mo | Auto-refresh datasets; kill manual VLOOKUPs |
Search compensation data by role, location, and industry with real-time benchmarks. You get AI-driven taxonomy, bookmark analytics, high-level trends, and unlimited reports. No credit card required.
Wage Magic is our skills-first classification engine. Paste a job description or enter a role, and it maps the position based on actual skills, tools, and certifications — not just the job title. You get market rates, percentile breakdowns, and geographic comparisons in seconds.
BLS publishes annual data with a 12-18 month lag, covering ~830 SOC codes at the metro level. We update daily, cover 3,000+ counties and 2,000+ industries, and classify roles based on skills — not just standardized occupation codes. We also include 13 years of historical trends so you can track movement over time.
No. Unlike platforms that require survey participation before you can access benchmarks, Wage Magic gives you answers the day you sign up. No data exchange, no waiting.
Premium pricing is customized based on your team size and needs. No setup fees. No per-lookup limits. Contact us for a quote.
Programmatic access to every data point we have. Integrate real-time compensation data directly into your ATS, internal tools, or workflows. For unlimited API volume and custom integrations, see our Enterprise plan.
Yes. The Wage Magic tier gives you full access to compensation search, AI-driven taxonomy, and unlimited reports — no credit card required.