PayScale.com the world's largest online salary source, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AO 100 Top Private Companies for 2007. The fifth-annual elite AO100 list was compiled by the AlwaysOn editorial panel. In order to be eligible for the AO100 list, companies had to be peer-nominated, with AlwaysOn receiving more than 1,000 nominations from venture investors, investment bankers and other industry experts.
PayScale and the AO 100 Top Private Companies for 2007 will be honored at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit to be held July 31 - Aug 2, 2007, at Stanford University. The Stanford Summit is a
two-and-a-half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. The idea behind the AO100 top
private companies list is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global technology industry.
PayScale is a leader in compensation information, possessing over 8 million unique salary profiles and patent-pending search matching technology that provides immediate and current
compensation intelligence. PayScale has launched the concept of anonymously comparing your salary online - in detail - to other real people with similar individual and job characteristics
(I.e., location, company type and size, job, experience, education, skills, and more.) Using an advanced search and proprietary matching technology, PayScale finds a relevant peer group
from their data set that matches the user-provided job information. The system allows every user's job profile to be unique and relevant to his/her different job requirements, thus
creating a level of accuracy that cannot be achieved with traditional methodologies.
A full list of all the AlwaysOn Top 100 Private Companies can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at: www.PayScale.com. PayScale was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Seattle,
Washington.
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