New York Times Digital Integrates Salary.com's Salary Wizard On NYTimes.com and Boston.com

Business Wire, Oct 23, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

WELLESLEY, Mass. and NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 23, 2000

Agreement Enables Access to Recognized Leader's Online

Compensation Information Directly Through Premier Web Sites

Salary.com, the leader in online compensation information for individuals, business managers and human resource professionals, and New York Times Digital, the Internet division of The New York Times Company, announced today that Salary.com's Salary Wizard(TM) is now available on both the NYTimes.com and Boston.com Web sites. It is also accessible through newyorktoday.com, New York Times Digital's online guide to everything New York.

The Salary Wizard, Salary.com's core database of compensation data, is available directly to the visitors of these premier sites at no charge, further extending the reach of the most comprehensive and authoritative salary data source online. The Salary Wizard can be found on NYTimes.com at www.nytimes.com/jobs and on Boston.com at http://bostonworks.boston.com/salary.> Any employee or employer looking to find the prevailing rate for people in a particular position and industry can do so in three steps by using the Salary Wizard. Users simply choose an industry and position from a series of drop-down menus that are supplemented by detailed job descriptions for each title. Once the appropriate job information and ZIP code are selected, the Salary Wizard instantly returns a detailed salary report for thousands of positions in any given locale.

"Premier Web sites across the country are turning to Salary.com as the definitive source of accurate, timely, comprehensive compensation data," said Kent Plunkett, founder and CEO, Salary.com. "We are pleased that NYTimes.com and Boston.com recognize the value of providing compensation data to their visitors, enabling job seekers to make more informed career decisions, and business managers and HR managers to gain a broader understanding of the compensation landscape in their industries."

"We are delighted to integrate the Salary Wizard into NYTimes.com, Boston.com and newyorktoday.com," said Jason Krebs, vice president and general manager for newyorktoday.com. "We believe this compensation information is a great addition to the tools and services we already offer in our recruitment areas."

About New York Times Digital

New York Times Digital serves a quality audience online by providing high-quality news, information and interaction through its own premier Web sites as well as affiliate partners. New York Times Digital's family of sites includes NYTimes.com, Boston.com, newyorktoday.com, GolfDigest.com, WineToday.com and Abuzz, an online knowledge-sharing network. New York Times Digital is a division of The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT).

About Salary.com

Salary.com is the leader in online compensation information for individuals, business managers and human resource professionals. Based in Wellesley, Mass., Salary.com provides accurate, authoritative compensation data for a comprehensive set of industries and thousands of job titles. Gathered through the compilation of proprietary research and published reports, Salary.com's in-depth salary information is available through compensation surveys such as its current Compensation of e-Business and Information Technology Professionals Survey, a survey of Massachusetts employers; and the Salary Wizard, Salary.com's flagship compensation tool. In addition to compensation data, Salary.com provides editorial content on compensation advice, negotiation tactics and news specific to the compensation marketplace. Content from Salary.com is available at www.salary.com as well as through syndication on portals and other sites. In all, more than 45 career sites, recruitment sites and portals are under agreement to integrate the Salary Wizard in the coming weeks. For more information, contact Salary.com at 781-237-2441, extension 247, or send email to press@salary.com.