Most B2B software is built for enterprise customers with dedicated teams, multi-week onboarding budgets, and $50,000+ annual software contracts. The 50-person professional services firm, the 80-person healthcare administration company, the 30-person non-profit — these organizations are systematically underserved by software that assumes resources they don't have.
Salary Range Builder exists because the HR Manager at a 50-person company facing a Colorado pay transparency deadline on Friday deserves a self-serve tool that works in 30 minutes, not a 6-week enterprise implementation.
Pay transparency laws have expanded rapidly — 16 US states and D.C., 6 Canadian provinces, with enforcement actively ramping up in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and elsewhere. The penalties are real: $1,000–$10,000 per non-compliant job posting.
The current workaround — navigating BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics spreadsheets, manually mapping SOC codes, calculating range spreads in Excel — takes 8–20 hours of specialist effort per cycle and produces no audit trail. An employment attorney asking “can you show me what range you posted and based on what data?” can't be answered with a spreadsheet.
Enterprise tools like Payscale ($27,000/year average) and OpenComp ($9,500/year average) are built for dedicated compensation teams at 500+ employee organizations. They require sales calls, multi-week onboarding, and annual contracts that dwarf the regulatory exposure they're solving.
The $199–$599/month self-serve SMB tier was structurally unoccupied. No tool seeded salary ranges directly from BLS OEWS and Statistics Canada NOC data, produced state and province-formatted compliance PDFs, and maintained a legally defensible audit trail — at a price point accessible to the HR generalist at a 50-person company.
We built it.
Transparent pricing (public, no sales call required). Transparent data sourcing (BLS OEWS and Statistics Canada NOC — government data, public domain, zero licensing). Transparent methodology (range spread defaults are documented and user-adjustable).
The same BLS data that enterprise comp teams use shouldn't require a $27,000/year contract and a 6-week onboarding to access. Same-day activation, 30-minute time-to-first-value, no specialist background required.
Every range is traceable to its source data and methodology. The compliance audit trail exists to protect you in an enforcement action, not just to look professional in a dashboard.
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