CompShop
The independent directory of salary & compensation surveys. Search 350+ reports across 17+ vendors (Mercer, WTW, Aon, SullivanCotter, Gallagher, Pearl Meyer, Empsight, Culpepper, Milliman, MRA, LOMA, Birches Group, Western Management Group, and more) by job title, industry, geography, or publisher.
Tech stack
- Framework: Next.js 14 (App Router) + TypeScript + Tailwind
- Database: SQLite (
better-sqlite3) with a file-backed DB bundled in the repo - Search: server-side FTS-ish query across vendors, reports, job families, positions, and participating orgs
- SEO: ~3,500 statically-generated indexable pages (vendor / report / family / position) with JSON-LD, OG/Twitter tags, canonical URLs, and an auto-generated sitemap
Local dev
npm install
npm run dev
Open http://localhost:3000.
Data pipelines
Loaders are in scripts/. Each writes to data/compshop.db.
# Add/refresh a vendor (parent row)
npm run db:add-vendor <path-to-json>
# Add/refresh a single report (with optional XLSX position/participant lists)
npm run db:add-report <path-to-directory>
# Batch-load many reports at once
npm run db:add-report-batch "scripts/data/mercer-*"
See scripts/SCRAPING.md for the full data-loading workflow.
Deployment
Deploys to Vercel out of the box. The SQLite DB file (data/compshop.db) is committed to the repo and read at request time by the serverless routes; almost all pages are pre-rendered statically at build time via generateStaticParams + force-static.
Set NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL in your Vercel project settings to your production domain (e.g., https://compshop.io).
Server Config
{
"mcpServers": {
"compshop": {
"url": "https://www.comp-shop.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}