SmartSalary AI features and pricing (October 2026)

SmartSalary is a Chinese compensation data platform for HR and reward teams, offering salary benchmarks, custom pay reports, job evaluation and pay structure design based on a large market data set processed with AI methods.

SmartSalary, legally Xinzhi Internet Technology (Shanghai), started in 2017 as a big data unit of the Chinese HR software vendor eRoad and became independent in 2018. The platform provides monthly updated salary benchmarks, custom reports against up to 20 named peer companies and up to 100 specified peer positions, job evaluation, internal equity and external competitiveness checks, pay structure design with cost modeling, and 162 HR indicators such as raise rates, graduate starting pay and turnover. The vendor reports 528 million salary samples and more than 59,000 client companies.

• Calculates market pay levelsThe platform combines data from several sources and uses AI regression and hierarchical analysis to estimate pay levels for a position, industry and city. Reward teams get a benchmark without commissioning a separate survey for each role.
• Maps jobs across companiesAn AI knowledge graph links job titles, companies and industries across the data set, so non-standard positions can be matched to comparable roles. HR can benchmark roles that do not appear in classic salary surveys.
• Processes pay data inputAccording to the vendor, AI handles tedious steps such as parsing submitted forms, matching positions and entering salary data. Reward teams spend less time preparing and cleaning survey data before they can compare pay.

• Custom reports can name up to 20 specific peer companies and up to 100 positions at those companies.
• Covers China only, with 3,162 market positions and 113 industry segments according to the vendor.
• Combines external benchmarks with internal equity checks and pay structure design in one tool.

Headquartered in Shanghai and spun out of the Chinese HR software vendor eRoad in 2017; the vendor says its pay data covers more than 3,000 positions in 113 industry segments in China.

SmartSalary suits reward teams that need Chinese market pay data, for example for a subsidiary or for expatriate and local pay decisions in China. Ask how the underlying data is collected and whether your own payroll data is uploaded, since the hosting location is not published and the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) applies. The vendor describes its AI methods only briefly, so request a sample report before buying.

• PIPL gives employees a right to refuse automated decisions
• Platforms must negotiate algorithm rules with unions
• Exemption for cross-border transfer of employee data

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