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Q1 2026 Report — Live Dataset

The numbers your
competitors
already have.

4,217 verified SaaS operator responses. 47 roles benchmarked. 6 verticals covered. The compensation and market intelligence that VP-level operators use to set bands, close offers, and anchor board-level strategy.

4,217 responses
95% confidence
Q4 2025 data
VP-level verified
Benchmark Dashboard v2.1
Live
4,170responses collected
Median OTE$247K↑ 12.4% YoY
Equity P500.18%Series B avg
Response Demographics
4.2K
Series A–B38%
Series C+29%
Bootstrap21%
Enterprise12%
Top Role Benchmarks
VP Engineering94%ile
Head of Product81%ile
Sr. AE (Mid-Market)73%ile
Data Scientist II68%ile
HR Business Partner57%ile
RoleP25P50P75Equity
VP Eng$198K$231K$274K0.25%
Dir. PM$172K$204K$239K0.18%
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The Problem

Are you setting comp bands from gut feel?

Most HR directors and VP-level operators are building compensation frameworks on data that's 18 months stale, sourced from a competitor's public job post, or extrapolated from a single Glassdoor thread. That's not a benchmark. That's a guess wearing a spreadsheet.

The Cost
68%

of SaaS companies

…missed their Q3 headcount plan because comp bands were misaligned with market by more than one band tier. The average cost of a mis-hire at VP level: $340K all-in.

— Benchmark 2025 Report, Chapter 4: Attrition Drivers

Report Preview — 8 Chapters

Enough to know the data is real. Not enough to act on it.

Ch. 02 — Compensation Tables47 roles tracked
RoleP25P50 ▲P75EquityYoY
VP of Engineering$198K$231K$274K0.25%↑8.2%
Director of Product$172K$204K$239K0.18%↑6.7%
Head of Customer Success$141K$168K$201K0.12%↑11.3%
Sr. Data Scientist$162K$189K$224K0.15%↑9.8%
Staff Software Engineer$195K$228K$271K0.22%↑7.4%
GTM Strategy Lead$148K$177K$214K0.14%↑13.1%
Chief of Staff$131K$159K$193K0.09%↑5.9%
Ch. 01 — Methodology
01

Survey Design

Validated by 3 independent HR researchers

02

Distribution

14-week collection across 6 SaaS verticals

03

Cleaning

Outliers removed via IQR × 1.5 threshold

04

Verification

Cross-referenced against 3 public comp databases

Confidence Interval95%
Margin of Error±1.4%
By the Numbers
4,217Verified Responses
47Roles Benchmarked
6SaaS Verticals
$2.1BTotal Payroll Covered
Participant Voice
"We were 22% below market on two engineering bands and had no idea. This report saved us three senior hires we were about to lose to competitors we didn't even know were in the market."

Priya Nair

VP People Ops · Series C SaaS

Ch. 05 — Equity Benchmarks

Median equity grant (% of company) by stage

Seed65 bps
Series A48 bps
Series B31 bps
Series C18 bps
Dataset Integrity
4,217
Verified Responses
Q4 2025 collection
94%
VP-Level or Above
Decision-maker density
14 wks
Collection Window
Feb–May 2025
±1.4%
Margin of Error
95% confidence interval
$2.1B
Total Payroll
Represented in dataset
Participating Organizations (sample)+340 more companies
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What you get

Sharp intelligence.
One work email.

The full 8-chapter report. Interactive data tables. Filterable by role, stage, and geography. Updated quarterly. Used by 340+ SaaS companies to set comp bands, benchmark equity, and anchor board presentations.

Full 47-role compensation table (P25/P50/P75)
Equity benchmarks by funding stage
Geographic differential multipliers
Q1 2026 forecast models
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