How does Salary Confidential differ from traditional salary surveys or Glassdoor?
Traditional salary surveys are broad, slow, and usually vendor-run. Glassdoor and similar sites rely on self-reported, public data whose provenance is deliberately vague.
How it works here
Salary Confidential operates more like a micro-survey network: small, specific, and peer-verified. Each Poll you launch defines your own private compensation study, and every Respondent who participates gains access to the same aggregated results.
Why it’s different
Our model treats salary information as shared intelligence — not user-generated content.
We prioritize control and relevance over volume: you receive a smaller set of results, but from precisely defined peers. To preserve privacy, the platform acts as an escrow — a trusted third party that enforces confidentiality.
Results are released only once the data reaches both anonymity and statistical value (three or more responses). The outcome is private, precise, and ethically collected: participants see peer data that truly match their role, company scale, and region, while the ability of connecting a data point to a specific person is blurred to protect individuals.
If you want to know more about the specific ways we make survey data privacy-safe, even for very small surveys
Salary Confidential is unique in the systematic approach we've taken to how we collect, release and present our survey data to keep the data useful and precise (because the peer set is intentionally very narrow), without exposing the identity of respondents even when the requester knows exactly who they have invited