# Market intelligence

Turn salary benchmarks, time-to-fill comparisons, and competitor signals into hiring decisions instead of dashboard reading.

## Where market intelligence lives

Market signals are spread across the Partner Hub rather than locked in one report:

- **Your Hiring Metrics** — a dashboard widget summarizing your own market position: average salary range across your open roles, average candidates per role with a demand-trend badge, average time to fill compared against an estimated market average, and your count of active roles.
- **Network** — anonymized benchmarks and industry trend comparisons across The Quantum Club partner network, including companies with a hiring profile like yours.
- **Alerts** — market alerts that surface notable shifts so you do not have to watch dashboards daily.
- **Brand** — competitor brand comparison for how your employer presence stacks up against companies you compete with for talent.

## Salary benchmarks

Salary benchmarks show how your published ranges compare with the market and the partner network. Compensation benchmarking also appears at offer time, so you can sanity-check a package before it goes out.

How to act on them:

- If your range sits below benchmark and roles attract few candidates, raise the range or strengthen the non-salary story in your company profile.
- If you are above benchmark but losing offers, the problem is rarely money — look at response speed and process length first.

## Time-to-fill benchmarks

Your average time to fill is shown against an estimated market average — for example, "+6d vs est. avg" means your roles take six days longer than comparable roles. Time to fill is the benchmark most within your control:

- A slow first stage usually means review bottlenecks — check who owns first response and watch the SLA dashboard.
- A slow late stage usually means scheduling friction — calendar integration and instant meetings remove most of it.

## Competitor hiring signals

Competitor signals tell you who you are competing against for the same talent:

- **Target companies** — track the companies you most often hire from or lose candidates to.
- **Competitor brand comparison** — see how your employer brand compares with named competitors.
- **Demand trend** — the candidates-per-role badge tells you whether demand for your roles is rising or cooling.

How to act on them: when a competitor ramps hiring in your space, expect candidates to hold multiple offers — shorten your process and make offers faster. When demand cools, you can afford a higher bar.

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Network benchmarks are anonymized averages across The Quantum Club partner network. You see how you compare with the market; you never see another company's individual data, and they never see yours.
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## Related

- [Success Metrics dashboard](/partners/intelligence/success-metrics)
- [SLA dashboard](/partners/intelligence/sla-dashboard)
- [Make offers](/partners/hiring/make-offers)