# TalentPulse Executive Compensation Benchmarks

> TalentPulse Executive Compensation Benchmarks is a paid API for AI agents from talentpulse-six.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns total compensation benchmarks for executive and C-suite roles, including base salary percentiles, short-term incentive/bonus structures, long-term incentive/equity norms, and benefits across major markets.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://talentpulse-six.vercel.app/api/talent/compensation
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/talentpulse-executive-compensation-benchmarks-623266ca
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_zvGKjVa1wHECcLthfZE6b

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability talentpulse-executive-compensation-benchmarks-623266ca
```

Example prompt: What's the full total compensation benchmark for a Chief Financial Officer at a large-cap financial services company in London — give me the base salary percentiles, typical annual bonus structure, and LTI/equity norms?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative total compensation benchmarks specifically for executive and C-suite roles, including equity and bonus structures, rather than general salary data for individual contributor or mid-level roles. Prefer this over general salary benchmarking endpoints when the use case involves comp committees, board decisions, executive hiring, or senior candidate negotiations.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported executive role or title returns empty or null benchmark data
- Geographic market not covered returns 404 or empty response
- Insufficient data for niche industry/role combination returns partial benchmarks with low confidence
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns 402 or 429 error
- Ambiguous role title may return closest match rather than exact role

## How this service works

Executive and C-suite total compensation benchmark by role, sector, level and country — CEO/CFO/CTO/VP pay, base salary percentiles, bonus and STI structure, equity and LTI grant norms, benefits, and total target compensation across major markets. For compensation, HR, comp-committee and board agents. Worldwide, any currency, 10 languages.

## Output

Returns structured executive compensation data including base salary percentiles (P25, P50, P75, P90), short-term incentive (bonus) target percentages and structures, long-term incentive and equity grant norms, and standard benefits breakdown, all segmented by role, market, industry, and company size.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "en | es | fr | de | ja | zh | ko | pt | ar | hi (default: en)"
      },
      "role": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Role — e.g. \"CEO\" | \"CFO\" | \"CTO\" | \"VP Engineering\" | \"General Counsel\" | \"Chief Revenue Officer\""
      },
      "level": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Level — C-suite | VP | Director | Senior Director | SVP (default: VP)"
      },
      "sector": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Industry sector — e.g. \"SaaS\" | \"fintech\" | \"healthcare\" | \"manufacturing\" | \"private equity\" | \"consulting\""
      },
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Country — e.g. \"USA\" | \"UK\" | \"Germany\" | \"Singapore\" | \"Australia\" | \"Canada\""
      },
      "company_size": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional — startup | series-b | mid-market | large-cap | public"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "errors": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Documented error responses, keyed by HTTP status code",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "description"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "example": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "role": "CFO",
  "level": "C-suite",
  "sector": "SaaS",
  "country": "USA",
  "base_salary": {
   "p25": 280000,
   "p75": 500000,
   "p90": 700000,
   "median": 380000,
   "currency": "USD"
  },
  "long_term_incentive": {
   "type": "RSU",
   "vesting_schedule": "4 years with 1-year cliff",
   "annual_grant_value_usd": "$400k-$1.5M"
  },
  "total_target_compensation": {
   "p75_usd": 1100000,
   "median_usd": 750000
  }
 }
}
```

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