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No. 417 Salary.com

Waltham, MA

Year	2006
Founded	1999
Growth	349.5%
Revenue	$13.8 million
Employees	139

What it does: Provides Web-based software that helps HR departments track employee performance and set appropriate compensation levels. Customers run the gamut from mom-and-pops to Wal-Mart.

Why it's growing: Salary.com began as a free site that provided salary information, but it has since expanded to a subscription-based software service that provides detailed HR information that was once the sole province of pricey consulting firms. Happy customers: Salary.com has a customer retention rate of 90 percent. "Because we're on demand, our customers can call and say they quit, with no warning," says CEO Kent Plunkett. "We fight to keep them happy every month."

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