Compensation Professional — compensation library, answers, and wage-compliance data MCP Server

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Compensation Professional — compensation library, answers, and wage-compliance data is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Read-only access to Compensation Professional's compensation-focused book library, query-shaped...

Uptime history 40 hours of history · worst hour 80%

40 hours agonow

98.9%

Uptime 24h

92 of 93 checks

Tools

read from the server

388 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 9 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

9 Sep a tool appeared get_membership_offer

Compensation Professional — compensation library, answers, and wage-compliance data does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 99.3% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add discovery --transport http https://compensationprofessional.com/api/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discovery": {
      "url": "https://compensationprofessional.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.discovery]
url = "https://compensationprofessional.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discovery": {
      "url": "https://compensationprofessional.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discovery": {
      "url": "https://compensationprofessional.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

library

get_library_work

Returns one compensation library work's bibliographic record and (when profiled) its thesis.

search_library

Search or list the compensation-focused book library by title/author substring and/or classifier tag. No filters returns the first page.

answer

get_answer

Returns one authored /answers page as structured content: question, short answer, problem frame, and citations. Known slugs (13): how-to-set-pay-ranges, what-should-we-pay-for-a-role, is-our-pay-competitive, how-to-tie-executive-pay-to-performance, executive-compensation-components, how-much-executive-pay-at-risk, business-case-for-changing-rewards, make-financial-case-for-compensation, ….

compensationprofessional

list_compensationprofessional_feeds

List Compensation Professional's free machine-readable feeds and their MCP/REST availability. OpenAPI is also published at https://compensationprofessional.com/openapi.json.

membership

get_membership_offer

Returns the Compensation chapter of the Bicycle Cooperative membership offer: five options (enterprise member, practitioner member, worker, practitioner rent, enterprise rent) with chapter substitution applied and this front's join URL.

wage

get_wage_jurisdiction

Returns one tracked jurisdiction's current minimum-wage rate, effective date, validation status, and next scheduled step. 113 known jurisdictions, e.g.: federal, alaska, alabama, arkansas.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://compensationprofessional.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	307 ms	3 min ago

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Compensation Professional — compensation library, answers, and wage-compliance data — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Compensation Professional — compensation library, answers, and wage-compliance data do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_answer, get_library_work, get_membership_offer, get_wage_jurisdiction, list_compensationprofessional_feeds, search_library. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Compensation Professional — compensation library, answers, and wage-compliance data working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 93 checks got a reply (98.9%), average response time 388 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Compensation Professional — compensation library, answers, and wage-compliance data?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Compensation Professional — compensation library, answers, and wage-compliance data need an API key?

No. Compensation Professional — compensation library, answers, and wage-compliance data completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Compensation Professional — compensation library, answers, and wage-compliance data?

It answers our handshake in 388 ms on average, which is faster than 42% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.