Effective Date: July 30, 2025
Last Updated: July 30, 2025
URL: https://www.compatlas.com/about-us
CompAtlas isn’t just another salary website — it’s the compensation intelligence engine redefining how the world understands pay.
Our About Us story begins with a single frustration: the world’s biggest salary platforms still fail to answer what professionals truly care about — What do I actually take home? What’s it really worth where I live? And is this job worth it for me?
That’s where CompAtlas steps in.
We exist for the globally mobile, the remote-first, the relocation-bound, and the cross-border hiring world.
In a digital landscape flooded with inflated gross salary figures and vague, outdated averages, CompAtlas delivers what truly matters:
→ What you keep after tax,
→ What it’s worth in your city,
→ And how far your compensation will actually take you in real life.
Our mission is simple but radical:
To bring crystal-clear visibility into the full picture of compensation — so that people, employers, and economies make smarter, fairer, more grounded decisions.
Whether you’re a software engineer comparing offers in Dublin vs. Kuala Lumpur, a recruiter calibrating geo-adjusted pay bands across LATAM and Europe, a remote worker juggling cross-currency offers, or an expat trying to decode tax deductions and housing costs — CompAtlas was built for your version of salary reality.
CompAtlas isn’t about being “another job site” or “salary tool.”
We go beyond generic benchmarks and ballpark estimates.
We decode compensation in its truest, most actionable form — factoring in tax regimes, net pay, cost of living, benefits, hidden deductions, and lifestyle essentials.
Because in the end, CompAtlas isn’t just about what you earn. It’s about what your work is worth — to your wallet, to your well-being, and to your world.
Who We Are
CompAtlas Global Intelligence is a compensation benchmarking platform built from the ground up to answer the real questions people ask:
- How much will I actually take home after tax?
- Will I be able to live well in that city?
- Is this job worth it after factoring rent, childcare, and tax slabs?
- What’s the pay-to-survival ratio in my industry?
Founded by a team of economists, data engineers, global mobility experts, and tech professionals, CompAtlas is based on one belief:
“Compensation without context is confusion.“
That’s why we go deeper — building the first platform that layers gross salary, net pay, tax logic, city-level cost of living, and verified peer data into one seamless salary intelligence system.
Why We Exist
Global professionals face three dangerous illusions:
- Gross Salary = Pay
Nope. Your offer letter might look impressive — until you subtract social security, income tax, health premiums, and other deductions. - Same Pay, Different Cities = Same Life
False. ₹20L in Delhi ≠ ₹20L in Singapore ≠ ₹20L in Zurich. Rent alone can reverse your financial standing. - Averages are Accurate
Never. A “UI Designer salary in Europe” means nothing unless you know country, seniority, sector, and net pay.
CompAtlas corrects these illusions — by combining verified data with country-specific tax engines, cost-of-living metrics, and peer comparisons.
Our Edge: Unrivaled Salary Intelligence
Here’s how we’re built differently — and why you’ll never see salary data the same way again.
We Show What You Actually Take Home
Our platform calculates net take-home pay after tax, insurance, pension contributions, and deductions. From the US to Germany, from UAE to Canada — every local rule is modeled.
→ Example: A gross $120,000 job in New York nets around $78,000 — not even close to what most salary sites show.
We Compare Across Borders — Fairly
You can’t compare ₹35L in India to €65K in Germany without adjusting for tax load and city living costs. CompAtlas equalizes everything with a Real Income Index and Pay ROI — telling you where the job actually works for your lifestyle.
→ Example: A Senior Analyst in Lisbon might earn less than in Dubai, but net pay and COL favor Portugal.
We Localize to the City Level
Our data is city-calibrated, not just country-wide. The difference between São Paulo and Brasília, or Amsterdam and Rotterdam, is massive — and we reflect that.
→ So a UX Designer earning €45K in Rotterdam (low rent) gets more life-value than one earning €50K in Amsterdam.
We Use Verified Peer Submissions + Official Data
We blend user-submitted salaries (reviewed for patterns and anomalies) with official tax rules, cost indices, and compensation surveys — giving you a layered, validated dataset.
Feature Comparison
Here’s how CompAtlas stacks up against most other salary tools:
| Feature | Others | CompAtlas |
|---|---|---|
| Gross Salary Benchmark | Yes | Yes |
| Net Take-Home Pay | No | Yes |
| Tax Breakdown | No | Yes |
| Cost of Living Adjusted | No | Yes |
| Pay ROI Calculator | No | Yes |
| Cross-Country Comparison | No | Yes |
| Localized Salary by City | No | Yes |
| Recruiter Geo Pay Tools | No | Yes |
| Verified User Submissions | No | Yes |
Use Cases: Who We Serve
Professionals
You’re comparing job offers from Berlin, Manila, and Toronto.
We show you what you’ll take home, how rent compares, what your savings rate will be, and which city gives you the best quality-of-pay.
Recruiters
You’re hiring across regions.
We help build geo-adjusted salary bands and localize pay fairly — with zero guesswork, and no spreadsheets.
Relocation Experts
You handle mobility for companies.
We give you tax-modeled, COL-adjusted relocation packs that show true impact on take-home pay and lifestyle.
Remote Teams
You pay people across borders.
We ensure you benchmark fairly — avoiding overpaying in low-COL zones or underpaying in high-tax cities.
Policy Advocates & Researchers
You need labor transparency.
We reveal where wages are outpaced by living costs — helping shape fairer laws and migration policies.
The CompAtlas Data Stack
What powers all this? Our proprietary stack blends:
- Tax Engines per country (gross-to-net calculators)
- Social Security & Pension Rules
- Housing + Utility Cost Indexing
- City-Adjusted Expense Multipliers
- Seniority-Calibrated Salary Curves
- Exchange Rate Sensitivity
- Work Visa Impact Models
And it’s continuously improved — by feedback, peer submissions, recruiter dashboards, and government datasets.
Global Fair Pay, Backed by Data
We believe pay transparency = empowerment.
By exposing how much people really earn — not in hype but in hard numbers — we help drive:
- Geographic Pay Equity
- Gender Compensation Gaps Awareness
- Informed Immigration & Job Mobility
- Diversity in Global Hiring
We’re used by:
- Career changers comparing post-tax salaries
- Remote-first startups creating country pay bands
- HR teams conducting equity audits
- Universities advising global students
- Professionals planning family relocations
What’s Coming Next
We’re building:
- Pay Normalizer Tool — plug in any offer, see its adjusted worth globally
- Negotiation Engine — get suggested counter-offers based on local market standards
- Expat Tax Simulators — understand deductions and exemptions in seconds
- Recruiter Intelligence Dashboards — visualize pay gaps, trends, and hiring ROI
All powered by the same deep salary logic we pioneered.
Built on Trust
Your data powers the system — and we protect it with:
- GDPR, CCPA, DPDP, PIPEDA, PDPL compliance
- No third-party selling of user data
- Fully encrypted data in transit and at rest
- Cookie choice, session control, opt-out at any time
We believe ethical data = reliable insights.
Talk to Us
We’re not a black box. Whether you’re a jobseeker, HR pro, policy researcher, journalist, or someone trying to make sense of numbers — write to us.
Email: contact@compatlas.com
Website: https://www.compatlas.com
CompAtlas: See your job’s true value. Anywhere in the world.
Because salary isn’t just what you earn — it’s what you keep, what it buys, and what it’s worth.