Company lists · Data refreshed August 2026
Top 25 Compensation consulting firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,353 compensation consulting firms worldwide as of August 2026 and tracks 23,757 professional contacts across them, including 8,687 with verified work emails and 5,425 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers compensation consulting firms worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed August 31, 2026. Country and city lists for compensation consulting firms follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest compensation consulting firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,189 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Salary.com® remains the technology leader in providing employee compensation data, software, and services to enterprises, small businesses, and individuals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,148 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Segal is a leading employee-owned consulting firm with more than 1,100 professionals across North America, including 150+ credentialed actuaries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 803 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Create confidence in your compensation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 411 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mercer believes in building brighter futures by redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and well-being.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 400 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Eckler, we help organizations make confident decisions about risk and financial security.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 391 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1992, Normandin Beaudry is Canada’s leader in actuarial and total rewards consulting services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 265 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mercer believes in building brighter futures by redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and well-being.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Criada em 1986 pelo renomado headhunter Bernt Entschev, a consultoria de recursos humanos De Bernt Entschev é hoje uma das maiores do Brasil em seu segmento e se destaca por…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 246 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondé en 2019 par des associés de grands cabinets de conseil, Exiom Partners est un cabinet spécialisé dans les Services Financiers pensé pour proposer un modèle de management…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avec plus de 600 collaborateurs, Mercer est en France une référence pour le conseil et les services en ressources humaines, protection sociale et avantages sociaux.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 177 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Equity Methods provides valuation, financial reporting, and human resources advisory services related to equity compensation and other complex securities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Consulting Point is a multi-award-winning talent strategy and advisory firm headquartered in the United Kingdom, with a truly global reach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 161 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Connecting People, Purpose, and Performance.™ Pearl Meyer is the leading advisor to boards and senior management helping organizations build, develop, and reward great leadership…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The McLagan Data & Analytics platform, a product of Aon’s rewards practice, delivers compensation insights to the world’s leading financial services companies, including asset…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From the beginning, Frederic W.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For the past 30 years, the consulting firm Arthur Hunt has been supporting companies from all sectors in all of their HR challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 65 years, QTI has been an active member of the business community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HR Anexi is a strategic human capital consulting organization with a complete array of capabilities in talent assessment, organization development, employee engagement, HR…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a full service employee benefits, actuarial, investment, compensation, and HR consulting firm with over 40 years of experience providing consulting services to clients in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to OMAM Consultants - Pioneers in Perfecting Human Relations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Meridian Compensation Partners provides the most effective solutions and independent advice in executive compensation and corporate governance consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Semler Brossy is a leading independent consulting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1991, The Goodkind Group is a full-service recruitment consulting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Temos orgulho em dizer que nosso software é a principal solução do Brasil para gestão, comunicação e contabilização de planos de remuneração variável.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At CompIntelligence, we empower organizations to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of finance and technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: compensation consulting firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names compensation consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of compensation consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name compensation consulting firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Compensation consulting firms worldwide at a glance
As of Aug 31, 2026Companies by employee count
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among compensation consulting firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- 17 countries, largest first: the United States, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Germany, the United Kingdom, India, France, Argentina, Spain and 7 more. Country and city lists for compensation consulting firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “compensation consulting firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names compensation consulting firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among compensation consulting firms, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 8,687 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between August 31, 2026 and September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Compensation consulting firms by location
24 lists · largest firstEvery Compensation consulting firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Compensation consulting firms based in the United States1,015
- Compensation consulting firms based in Brazil244
- Compensation consulting firms based in Canada136
- Compensation consulting firms based in Mexico114
- Compensation consulting firms based in Germany112
- Compensation consulting firms based in the United Kingdom111
- Compensation consulting firms based in India107
- Compensation consulting firms based in France105
- Compensation consulting firms based in Argentina70
- Compensation consulting firms based in Spain70
- Compensation consulting firms based in Chile60
- Compensation consulting firms based in Australia44
- Compensation consulting firms based in Switzerland40
- Compensation consulting firms based in the Netherlands36
- Compensation consulting firms based in Italy33
- Compensation consulting firms based in Peru30
- Compensation consulting firms based in Sweden26
Cities
- Compensation consulting firms based in Sao Paulo, Brazil85
- Compensation consulting firms based in London, United Kingdom68
- Compensation consulting firms based in New York, United States62
- Compensation consulting firms based in Paris, France52
- Compensation consulting firms based in Toronto, Canada31
- Compensation consulting firms based in Atlanta, United States27
- Compensation consulting firms based in Chicago, United States26
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names compensation consulting firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many compensation consulting firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,353 compensation consulting firms worldwide as of August 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
salary.com, headquartered in Waltham, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most compensation consulting firms?
The United States leads with 1,015 companies, followed by Brazil (244) and Canada (136). Every compensation consulting firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most compensation consulting firms?
Sao Paulo leads with 85 headquartered companies, followed by London (69) and New York (58).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 8,687 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,353 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between August 31, 2026 and September 14, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.