Real Income powered by ADP®
Tap into the power of accurate, real-time compensation benchmarking. With Real Income, you can make pay decisions backed by reliable data to help attract and retain top talent.
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Unparalleled market and job coverage
Real Income’s market metrics and talent and compensation benchmarks are derived from ADP’s aggregated and anonymized pay data.
42+ million ADP U.S. payroll records
9,000+ job titles spanning 1,000+ industries
1.1+ million clients
Are your pay decisions competitive?
Stop guessing. Learn how ADP Real Income benchmarks your pay against 39+ million U.S. workers in real time.
Develop smarter, data-driven compensation strategies
Real Income is a powerful analytics platform that can help you excel at compensation management. You’ll be able to create new compensation strategies faster with more ease and confidence.
- Import easily: Upload all your organization’s compensation data and watch our job classifier automatically match your jobs to ADP benchmark jobs.
- Analyze data quickly: Examine pay data for all your jobs vs. ADP benchmarks, segmented by location and payment type (salary, bonuses, commission, overtime and tips) – all in one easy-to-use interface.
- Plan strategically: Locate gaps in current pay vs. market rates for every position in your company and assess internal pay scale consistency, so you can quickly expand into new locations.
Robust labor intelligence to expand into new markets
Real Income gives you the ability to compare compensation data for each of your jobs against the market rate in any geographic area so you can see if your pay is leading, matching or lagging competitors. With this information, you can plan job relocations, recruit from a wider range of talent and grow your business into new markets. Real Income’s workforce compensation analysis also provides industry-specific insights, including the latest labor trends and the top skills by job.
Elevate your compensation strategy
A study1 conducted by Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley found that users of ADP compensation benchmarks had superior compensation estimate results than those using other pricing methods.
Promptly address potential pay gaps
Equal pay is essential to your recruitment, retention and compliance efforts. You need a powerful analytics solution like Real Income to help you detect and resolve any pay gaps resulting from potential discriminatory biases within your organization.
- Quantify pay gaps down to dollars and cents and estimate the cost to close them.
- Kickstart the appropriate action plan to help achieve organization-wide pay equity.
- Ingrain fair pay practices into your company’s culture, processes and strategies.
License the most comprehensive U.S. compensation data
Do you need more granularity and flexibility for custom data analysis and modeling using your business intelligence tools? ADP offers data feeds tailored to specific use cases, including consumer demand forecasting, real estate site selection and workforce labor analytics. The data can be further customized to your technical requirements and preferred frequency of delivery, so you’ll have powerful insights seamlessly accessible whenever you need them. Other key advantages include:
- Accuracy: Move beyond outdated survey collections with ADP’s aggregated and anonymized data.
- Timeliness: Access both historical data and the latest compensation benchmarks.
- Comprehensiveness: View all job types across metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), counties and postal codes.
- Depth: Go deeper into specific categories, including NAICS industries, geolocations, job classifications and more.
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- Internal survey of 3,099 RUN Powered by ADP® customers in 2025
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- ADP Internal Research 2025
- As of October 7, 2025 and is subject to change.
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- Internal survey of 2,099 RUN Powered by ADP® customers in 2025 who previously processed payroll with another provider.
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