compensation-benchmarking

compensation-benchmarking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from w95/awesome-claude-corporate-skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (4,347 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for comparing employee pay with market rates and designing salary structures. It covers salary bands, pay equity, reviews, and compensation proposals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research pay for roles, set salary bands, review compensation, prepare offers, compare competitors, and analyze pay by demographic groups.
Why use it?
It helps replace scattered salary research and inconsistent pay decisions with a structured way to assess competitiveness and pay gaps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to research pay for roles, set salary bands, review compensation, prepare offers, compare competitors, and analyze pay by demographic groups.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/w95/awesome-claude-corporate-skills/compensation-benchmarking
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add w95/awesome-claude-corporate-skills --skill compensation-benchmarking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/w95/awesome-claude-corporate-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,347 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00062 $0.04347
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.02174
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00869
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00435

Measured 13d ago against content hash 8a360b444745, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compensation-benchmarking scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 13d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

03-human-resources/compensation-benchmarking/SKILL.md · 558 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 558 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Compensation Benchmarking

Overview

This skill helps HR professionals and leaders make data-driven compensation decisions that are competitive, equitable, and aligned to business strategy. It provides frameworks for market research, salary band development, pay equity analysis, compensation proposals, and ongoing market monitoring that attract and retain talent while managing labor costs.

When to Use This Skill

  • Researching market rates for specific roles
  • Building or updating salary bands
  • Creating compensation strategy
  • Analyzing pay equity issues
  • Conducting salary reviews or adjustments
  • Preparing compensation for offer negotiations
  • Benchmarking against competitors
  • Analyzing compensation by demographics
  • Building executive compensation packages
  • Creating retention-focused compensation strategies

Key Components

1. Market Research & Data Sources

Primary Data Sources:

Salary Surveys:

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): Free, government data
  • Salary.com, Glassdoor, PayScale: Self-reported data (consider bias)
  • Robert Half, Mercer, Towers Watson: Professional surveys (cost-based)
  • Industry-specific surveys: Often most relevant but specialized

Methodology:

  • Identify comparable roles in target market
  • Compare: Company size, industry, geography, experience level
  • Collect data from 3-5 sources minimum
  • Weight most recent and relevant data more heavily
  • Adjust for cost of living by geography
  • Account for company size and maturity

Data Points to Collect:

  • Median salary (most reliable)
  • 25th and 75th percentiles (understand range)
  • Benefits and total compensation
  • Bonus and variable comp (if applicable)
  • Stock options or equity (if applicable)
  • Job title and description (ensure comparability)
  • Company size, industry, geography
  • Years of experience required

Critical: Ensure Comparable Roles Don't compare apples to oranges:

  • Title might vary: "Senior Product Manager" vs. "Product Manager III"
  • Scope and responsibility: 1-person team vs. 10-person team
  • Experience level: 5 years vs. 15 years experience
  • Geography: San Francisco vs. Austin (significant cost of living differences)
  • Industry: Tech startup vs. enterprise healthcare
  • Match on as many dimensions as possible

Read the full file on GitHub · 558 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 13d ago First seen · 558 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 8a360b444745

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compensation-benchmarking is a skill published in the GitHub repository w95/awesome-claude-corporate-skills (198 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 4,347 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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