# Which salary benchmarking software is best for a mid-size SaaS company that wants to make sure it is paying developers fairly relative to its peer group?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">I have been researching which <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/salary-benchmarking">salary benchmarking software</a> works best for a mid-size SaaS company trying to pay developers fairly against a real peer group. The tricky part in the mid-market is that you're big enough to need structure but not big enough to buy every survey, and a "peer group" for a SaaS company means other software companies at a similar stage, which a lot of tools struggle to isolate. I filtered to what mid-market reviewers actually say.</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/salary-com-salary-com/reviews"><strong>Salary.com</strong></a>: Mid-market reviewers (its single largest segment) call out filtering by company size, industry, and geography to build defensible bands, and describe the data as validated and current. A few say job matching takes some interpretation.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/pave/reviews"><strong>Pave</strong></a>: Software and IT teams are its biggest reviewer base, and mid-market users like the clean interface, real-time data from peer companies, and equity modeling. Worth knowing some feel the database is smaller than legacy survey houses.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/opencomp/reviews"><strong>OpenComp</strong></a>: Reviewers at growing mid-market and startup companies praise fast setup, US city-level ranges, and being far cheaper than the big survey names.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For the mid-size SaaS folks, how are you defining your peer set for developer pay, and which tool actually let you narrow benchmarks to companies like yours rather than a blended market number?</p>

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&lt;p&gt;Peer set first, tool second. We defined ours as SaaS companies within roughly half to double our headcount and a similar funding stage, then tested which tools could actually filter that way. Salary.com gave us size and industry cuts that held up, and Pave gave us the real-time software-company view. My suggestion: test any tool with one role you know well and watch whether the range narrows once you apply your filters. If the number doesn&#39;t move, the peer filter isn&#39;t real and you&#39;re still looking at a blended market figure.&lt;/p&gt;

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