Salary.com to Acquire eComp Data Services Division from Aon Consulting

Business Wire, May 8, 2006

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Salary.com Now Offers Twice as Much CEO Compensation Data as Any Other Vendor; Information Covers 12,000 Public Companies And More Than 50,000 Executives.

Salary.com(TM) Inc., the compensation data and technology experts, today announced that it has acquired eComp(R) Data Services, a leading provider of executive compensation data, from Aon Consulting, a global human capital consulting firm. The Aon Consulting executive compensation group will focus on its core consulting services, partnering with Salary.com for executive compensation data.

With this acquisition, Salary.com becomes the largest provider of executive compensation data from surveys and proxy filings for named executive officers, with over 12,000 U.S. public companies and 50,000 senior executives covered - more than twice as many as the nearest competitor. Salary.com will expand its enterprise software offering with the introduction of CompAnalyst(TM) Executive - an enhancement to their award-winning CompAnalyst(TM) suite of on-demand market pricing and survey management tools.

"The acquisition of eComp solidifies Salary.com's position as the leading provider of on-demand compensation data and software solutions," said Kent Plunkett, CEO of Salary.com. "CompAnalyst is the only product to provide a complete market pricing solution for every job type, from entry-level to the executive suite."

CompAnalyst Executive will offer compensation professionals, executives and boards of directors a complete set of on-demand search tools to access the largest and most comprehensive database of named executives, to make benchmarking and designing executive compensation strategies faster and easier.

CompAnalyst Executive was designed by a team of executive compensation experts. Heading up this team are Bill Coleman, a leading authority on executive compensation and Senior Vice President of Compensation at Salary.com, and Joshua Lurie, founder of eComp Data Services who joins the Salary.com CompAnalyst team as Vice President of Executive Compensation and Business Development.

"CompAnalyst Executive builds on my founding vision for eComp," said Lurie. "We're taking the power of eComp's extensive database and combining it with Salary.com's compensation technology to create the most accurate, efficient, and effective way to benchmark and design executive pay solutions."

Under Coleman's leadership, CompAnalyst Executive will offer the industry's most comprehensive view of executive pay, with over a decade of historical trends and the highest standards of data quality certified by the Salary.com team of compensation experts.

"We understand the challenges facing decision makers today - they need to set competitive benchmarks and make informed recommendations to executive and board members in the most efficient way possible. Our suite of on-demand products provide speed, accuracy and customized reports designed by compensation professionals for compensation professionals to make the most effective decisions," said Coleman.

Salary.com's wide range of enterprise products include a full suite of market pricing, salary planning and performance management tools designed to streamline compensation management and help organizations link pay to performance. Salary.com's enterprise offering includes the CompAnalyst(TM) and CompPlanner(R) software suites which offer market leading, on-demand technology to help HR and compensation professionals save time, increase accuracy and quantify ROI. To learn more, contact Salary.com at 1-866-Salary1 or visit, http://www.salary.com.

About Salary.com

Salary.com is a leading provider of compensation solutions providing data, applications, and services to enterprises, small businesses and individuals. The enterprise software helps companies manage their compensation expenditures with real-time, decision-ready data and analytical tools. Backed by a team of more than 30 Certified Compensation Professionals, Salary.com is your partner in compensation.

Salary.com(TM), CompAnalyst(TM), eComp(R) and CompPlanner(R) are trademarks or registered trademarks of Salary.com. eComp(R) is a registered trademark of Aon Consulting. Other product and company names are property of their respective owners.