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Salary Guide Maker

Turn your annual salary guide into an interactive flipbook clients read in the browser with Flipbooks AI. Pay ranges by role and region, hiring trends and your own commentary sit in a document that turns like a printed report on any phone or laptop. Built for recruitment agencies, executive search firms and in-house talent teams. Every feature is free, there are no watermarks or ads, and you can publish as many salary guides as your regions need.

Salary Guide Maker

Turn a Salary Guide PDF Into a Flipbook

1

Upload the Guide

Upload the salary guide PDF your designer exported. Flipbooks AI builds an interactive preview straight away, with your tables, charts and layout exactly as they were set.

2

Brand It and Add Links

Set your colours, add your logo, and link each sector chapter to the consultant profiles, live vacancies and booking calendar that belong with it. Add a video introduction if you have one.

3

Publish and Send

Publish in one click, then copy the link into your launch email, embed the guide on your insights page or print a QR code for an event. Password protect the edition if it is for clients only.

How to Create a Salary Guide Flipbook

How to Create a Salary Guide Flipbook

Publishing the guide with Flipbooks AI takes one sitting and no design skills. Start with the salary guide PDF your designer exported. Upload it and a flipbook preview appears straight away. Choose a page turn style, add your logo and brand colours, link the sector chapters to the matching pages on your site, and decide whether the guide is open to everyone or password protected for retained clients. Check it on your own phone, publish, and copy the link into the launch email. Nothing in your tables or charts is edited or re-typed along the way.

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What Is a Salary Guide?

A salary guide is the report a recruitment firm publishes once a year: pay ranges by role, by seniority and by region, alongside notes on what is happening in the hiring market. Flipbooks AI takes that report as a PDF and turns it into an interactive flipbook whose pages turn like a printed edition. Clients stop hunting for an attachment in an old email thread and open a link instead. The tool never touches your numbers and never reads your tables. It presents the document you researched and wrote, exactly as your team laid it out, in a form people can read on a train or on a laptop in a budget meeting.

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What Is a Salary Guide?
What Is a Salary Guide?
What Is a Salary Guide?
What Is a Salary Guide?

Every Kind of Recruitment Report

The tool suits the whole shelf of documents an agency publishes. Annual salary guides carry pay ranges by role and region. Sector reports cover one market in depth. Market updates land between editions when hiring shifts. Benchmarking and benefits reports sit beside them. Candidate insight studies, day rate guides for contract work and year in review pieces all take the same shape: a designed document people need to read rather than store. Each becomes a flipbook with its own link, and they can live together on one insights page.

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Every Kind of Recruitment Report

Trusted by Fortune 500 Companies

Keep the Guide Looking Like Your Firm

Keep the Guide Looking Like Your Firm

A salary guide is a piece of brand work, so it should not arrive wrapped in another company branding. Flipbooks AI lets you set your own colours, add your mark to the viewer, choose a background and pick how the navigation looks. If your firm publishes in more than one language, each edition can have its own version. When the guide matches the rest of your marketing from cover to cover, clients recognise it in a crowded inbox and take the research more seriously.

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Why a Flipbook Beats a PDF Download
Why a Flipbook Beats a PDF Download
Why a Flipbook Beats a PDF Download
Why a Flipbook Beats a PDF Download

Why a Flipbook Beats a PDF Download

Most salary guides are published as a download, and a download is where the conversation ends. A flipbook keeps it going. Upload the guide, get a link, and put that link in the gated form, the newsletter and the follow-up email your consultants send. Nobody waits for a large file, nobody opens last year version by mistake, and nobody needs a PDF reader that behaves properly on a phone. When you correct a figure or add a region in week two, you republish and the same link carries the change. The guide stays the current edition instead of a snapshot of the day it was mailed.

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Help Clients Find the Guide in Search

A salary guide is one of the few things a recruitment firm publishes that people actively search for. A flipbook embedded on your insights page gives search engines real content to read and keeps visitors on the page longer. Give the guide a clear title and the words hiring managers actually type, such as the sector, the job family and the city or region it covers. Link to it from the vacancy pages it relates to. The guide you built for existing clients then quietly brings in the ones who have never spoken to you.

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Help Clients Find the Guide in Search

Salary Guide Tool Alternatives

Canva

Canva

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  • Clickable Links
  • Reading Analytics
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  • Fast Loading
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  • Secure Hosting
Flipbooks AI

Flipbooks AI

  • Free & Unlimited
  • No Watermarks
  • Clickable Links
  • Reading Analytics
  • Mobile Ready
  • Embed Video
  • Fast Loading
  • Password Protection
  • Instant Sharing
  • Secure Hosting
FlipHTML5

FlipHTML5

  • Free & Unlimited
  • No Watermarks
  • Clickable Links
  • Reading Analytics
  • Mobile Ready
  • Embed Video
  • Fast Loading
  • Password Protection
  • Instant Sharing
  • Secure Hosting
Issuu

Issuu

  • Free & Unlimited
  • No Watermarks
  • Clickable Links
  • Reading Analytics
  • Mobile Ready
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  • Fast Loading
  • Password Protection
  • Instant Sharing
  • Secure Hosting
Interactive Parts That Bring In Enquiries

Interactive Parts That Bring In Enquiries

A guide earns its keep when a reader can act from the page they are on. Flipbooks AI lets you build that in. Put a booking link beside each sector so a hiring manager can request a call with the consultant who wrote that chapter. Link a role to the live vacancies you have for it. Embed a short video explaining how the research was gathered, and a one page summary a manager can forward to a finance director. Add a contents list that works with a thumb. These small links are what turn a guide people admire into a guide that starts conversations.

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Features Recruitment Firms Actually Use

Flipbooks AI gives a recruitment marketing team what it needs to publish the guide properly. Add clickable links from every section to your consultant profiles, your vacancy pages and a booking calendar, so a hiring manager reading the finance chapter can request a call from that page. Embed a short video from your managing director introducing the year. Make the whole guide searchable, so a reader jumps straight to the job family they care about. Add a contents page that works with a thumb. All of it is free, with no watermark stamped across your cover and no cap on how many pages the report runs to.

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Features Recruitment Firms Actually Use
Features Recruitment Firms Actually Use
Features Recruitment Firms Actually Use
Features Recruitment Firms Actually Use

One Guide, Many Regions and Sectors

Firms rarely publish one salary guide and stop. Flipbooks AI makes a set easy to run. Send one link to your whole database, or build a version per region, per sector or per office and share each with the audience it was written for. See which versions get opened so you know where the interest is this year. Give every consultant the same link to send, so nobody is circulating a draft from three weeks ago. A national launch stops being an exercise in attaching files to hundreds of emails.

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One Guide, Many Regions and Sectors
Get Sign Off Before the Guide Goes Out

Get Sign Off Before the Guide Goes Out

A salary guide passes through a lot of hands: researchers, consultants who know their market, a marketing lead and usually a director who wants a last read. Flipbooks AI fits that. Share a preview link so people can review the real thing on their own screen rather than a flattened proof. Keep versions ready for different offices and line the launch up with the date your campaign starts. Feedback comes back against something everyone can see, which is faster than a chain of marked up attachments.

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Fits Every Size of Salary Guide
Fits Every Size of Salary Guide
Fits Every Size of Salary Guide
Fits Every Size of Salary Guide

Fits Every Size of Salary Guide

A two page pay snapshot for one city and a two hundred page national guide covering a dozen sectors both work here. Upload the designed PDF your studio produced and it becomes a flipbook in minutes, with the layout, charts and typography untouched. Split a large guide into a version per sector or per region and give each one its own link, so a manufacturing client is not scrolling past technology roles to reach their own. Publish a short mid year update between annual editions when the market moves. The tool does not care whether the guide is a lead magnet, a client gift or a piece your consultants quote in calls all year.

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Cheaper Than Printing the Annual Guide

Printing a salary guide is expensive: design, proofs, paper, a print run sized by guesswork, and postage to a client list that has moved on since last year. Flipbooks AI removes all of that. Publish as many editions and regional versions as you like at no cost. Correct a figure the week after launch and everyone sees it through the same link instead of waiting for a reprint. Reach clients in other countries at the same price as the ones down the road. And you learn what was read, which a printed run could never tell you.

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Cheaper Than Printing the Annual Guide

Who Publishes Salary Guides

2456+

Recruitment Agencies

6

Executive Search

13

Staffing Firms

24

Talent Teams

65

HR Consultancies

9

Job Boards

Readable for Everyone on Your List

Readable for Everyone on Your List

Your client list includes people who use a screen reader, people who never touch a mouse and people reading on a bright train window seat. Flipbooks AI covers the basics without extra work from your side. Screen reader support means the guide can be read out. Keyboard navigation moves through the pages. Clear text and uncluttered spreads keep long tables legible. It widens who can use the research you paid to produce, and it saves an awkward reply when a client asks for an accessible version.

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Reads Well on a Phone in a Meeting

Hiring managers open a salary guide in odd places: between interviews, on a commute, in a budget meeting where somebody asks what a role should pay. Flipbooks AI makes sure the guide holds up on a small screen. The layout adapts to the device, page turns stay smooth, and a reader can pinch to zoom into a pay range table without losing their place in the report. Tapping a link opens your vacancy page or the profile of the consultant who wrote that section. Everything runs in the browser, so there is no app to install and no download to finish before the answer is in front of them.

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Reads Well on a Phone in a Meeting
Reads Well on a Phone in a Meeting
Reads Well on a Phone in a Meeting
Reads Well on a Phone in a Meeting

Opens Fast, Even on Hotel Wifi

A salary guide is a large document, and a large download is where readers give up. Flipbooks AI loads a flipbook quickly on almost any connection. Compression keeps charts and photography sharp while the file stays light, and the first pages appear while the rest arrives in the background. A hiring manager who taps your link from a conference network reaches the pay ranges instead of a loading bar, which is the difference between a guide that gets quoted and one that gets closed.

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Opens Fast, Even on Hotel Wifi
Works With the Tools Your Team Has

Works With the Tools Your Team Has

Flipbooks AI sits alongside what your marketing team already runs. Export the guide from InDesign, Canva or Google Slides and upload the PDF. Link out to your CRM forms, your booking calendar, your vacancy pages or a survey collecting next year data. Drop the embed code into your website or your client portal so the guide sits with the rest of your insights. Nobody has to learn a new design tool, and the guide keeps the layout your studio signed off.

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A Free Salary Guide Tool With No Watermark
A Free Salary Guide Tool With No Watermark
A Free Salary Guide Tool With No Watermark
A Free Salary Guide Tool With No Watermark

A Free Salary Guide Tool With No Watermark

Flipbooks AI is completely free, and the useful parts are not held back for a paid tier. Other tools stamp their own logo across a report that carries your brand, limit how many pages you can publish, or keep the reading data behind a subscription. Here you get unlimited pages, a cover with nothing on it but your own design, and every option switched on from the first upload. A boutique agency publishing its first guide gets the same tool as a national firm, which matters when the guide is the marketing budget rather than a line inside it.

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Keep Every Past Edition Online

Old salary guides are worth more than a folder on a shared drive. Keep every edition published and linked, so a client can look back at last year and see how the market moved. Consultants can point to the previous edition in a call rather than hunting for a file. When the next guide is due, the last one is right there as the starting point. Your research builds into a library that shows a firm which has been reading this market for years.

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Keep Every Past Edition Online

What Recruitment Teams Say About the Salary Guide Tool

We publish a salary guide for four regions every January and the printing bill was the biggest line in my marketing budget. Now each region gets its own flipbook and its own link. Consultants send it straight from their phones, and I can finally tell the board which chapters clients actually read.

Marketing team
Marketing team

Product catalogs

Our guide is the reason a lot of hiring managers call us for the first time, so it has to look like us and nobody else. There is no watermark, the cover is our own, and the booking links on each sector page have brought in meetings we can trace back to a single chapter.

Studio owner
Studio owner

Client lookbooks

I run marketing for a search firm with eleven consultants. Uploading the designed PDF took minutes and the guide was live the same afternoon. When we had to correct a job title in the technology section, I republished and the link everyone had already sent kept working.

School office
School office

Newsletters and programmes

We used to email a heavy PDF and hope. Half of it never arrived. The flipbook opens on a phone in a second, and the drop off data showed the methodology page was losing readers before page three, so we moved it to the back for the next edition.

Independent designer
Independent designer

Portfolio flipbooks

Keep Client Only Editions Private

Keep Client Only Editions Private

Some editions are not for everyone. A guide written for retained clients, an early copy for a launch event, or a version with commentary you would rather not publish openly can sit behind a password, so only invited readers open it. You can also turn downloading off, which keeps a private edition from spreading further than you meant. Secure hosting takes care of the rest, so a confidential piece of research stays with the people it was written for.

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Send the Guide to Every Client at Once

When the guide is ready, distribution takes minutes. Copy the share link into the launch email, the social post and the signature block your consultants will use for the next three months. Embed the flipbook on your insights page so the guide lives on your site rather than behind a form nobody fills in. Print a QR code for a careers fair stand or a client breakfast. If an edition is for retained clients only, put a password on it so only the people you invited can read it, and keep the open edition for everyone else.

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Send the Guide to Every Client at Once
Send the Guide to Every Client at Once
Send the Guide to Every Client at Once
Send the Guide to Every Client at Once

Give Readers Reasons to Come Back

A salary guide is read hardest in the first fortnight and then forgotten, which is a waste of a document that stays useful all year. Flipbooks AI gives you ways to keep it in circulation. Add sharing buttons so a hiring manager can pass a chapter to a colleague writing a job spec. Link to a form for anyone who wants the next update. Publish a short mid year supplement and point the same audience to it. A guide people return to is worth far more than one that peaked on launch day.

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Give Readers Reasons to Come Back

Compare Salary Guide Publishing Tools

ApplicationRatingUnlimited CreditsUsage RatingDescription
10/10Yes1

Flipbooks AI publishes unlimited salary guides free of charge, with no watermark on your cover, clickable links to consultants and vacancies, embedded video and reading analytics. It suits recruitment firms who want the annual guide to look like their own work and to know how it performed.

FlipHTML5

5.2/10No2

FlipHTML5 has been converting PDFs for years and gives you a lot of viewer settings to play with. Free accounts keep its branding, and the reporting a marketing lead wants after a launch belongs to a paid plan.

Publuu

7.1/10No3

Publuu is quick to learn and produces tidy flipbooks with useful link tracking. The features an agency leans on for a yearly report, including the deeper statistics, sit on paid tiers, and free documents stay limited.

Issuu

8.3/10No4

Issuu is a publishing platform with an audience of its own and a genuinely good reader. Free publications carry Issuu branding and upload limits, so a salary guide that has to look entirely like your firm generally needs a subscription.

Canva

6.4/10No5

Canva is a strong choice for laying the guide out when you have no studio, and its charts are easy to build. Its viewer is basic though: no real page turns, and none of the reading data a marketing team needs after launch.

Adobe InDesign

7.8/10No6

Adobe InDesign is where most professionally set salary guides are made, and nothing beats it for typography and long tables. It is a design tool rather than a publishing one: no hosted flipbook, no share link and no analytics.

Heyzine

6.9/10No7

Heyzine is one of the quickest ways to get from a PDF to something presentable, and its editor is friendly. The free tier caps how many documents you keep and marks them, with the launch day extras reserved for paid accounts.

Flipsnack

8.1/10No8

Flipsnack is aimed at catalogues and offers useful tracking alongside its editor. Free use is restricted, and taking the branding off a guide that represents your firm means a monthly fee.

Marq

6.5/10No9

Marq keeps a marketing team inside approved templates, which is genuinely useful when several offices produce their own material. The reading side is thin next to a proper flipbook, and the team controls need a business plan.

Gated PDF Download

7.6/10No10

The usual approach is a form and a PDF download. It works, but the file is heavy on a phone, the version people keep is the one they downloaded months ago, and you learn nothing about which sections anyone read.

Editions for Events and Campaigns

Editions for Events and Campaigns

Build a version of the guide for the moment it is used. A launch breakfast, a sector roundtable, an exhibition stand or a client webinar can each have a flipbook with the chapters that fit the room and links to that event follow up. Track each one separately so you learn which audience actually reads afterwards. It lets a marketing team react to what clients ask for instead of pushing the same file at everyone twelve months at a time.

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See Which Sections Clients Read
See Which Sections Clients Read
See Which Sections Clients Read
See Which Sections Clients Read

See Which Sections Clients Read

A salary guide is a marketing asset, so it helps to know how it performed. Flipbooks AI shows you how many people opened the guide, which pages held attention and where readers stopped. If the technology chapter is read twice as long as the rest, that tells your consultants where to start a conversation. If everyone leaves at the methodology page, next year it moves to the back. You get evidence for the months the guide took to produce, and a shortlist of the sections worth expanding in the next edition.

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A Guide That Keeps Working Next Year

Publishing a salary guide should not mean rebuilding it when browsers or phones change. Flipbooks AI keeps up with the web and the devices your clients use, and updates arrive without your team doing anything. Editions you published two years ago keep opening from the same links you sent. Because everything is hosted, there is no software for your IT team to maintain and no plugin to worry about. The research stays readable long after the year on the cover.

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A Guide That Keeps Working Next Year

Frequently Asked
Salary Guide Maker

What is a salary guide flipbook?

It is your annual salary guide PDF turned into an interactive document with real page turns. Flipbooks AI does that for free, so clients read the pay ranges and market commentary in a browser on any device, with clickable links through to your consultants and live vacancies.

Is Flipbooks AI free for recruitment agencies?

Yes. It is completely free, with no watermarks, no page limits and no ads. Branding, sharing, password protection and reading analytics are included for every edition you publish, whether you are a two person agency or a national firm.

Does the tool change my pay range data?

No. Flipbooks AI presents the PDF you upload exactly as your designer laid it out. It does not edit, recalculate or re-type your tables, and it never supplies salary figures of its own. The research and the numbers stay entirely yours.

Can I gate the guide behind a form?

Yes. Keep your form on your own site and send the flipbook link once someone submits it, so the guide still works as a lead magnet. For editions meant only for retained clients, add a password so nobody outside that list can open it.

How do clients open the guide?

Send them a link by email or on social, embed the flipbook on your insights page, or print a QR code for an event. Flipbooks AI hosts the guide, so there is nothing to download and no attachment to get stuck in an inbox.

Can I see which sections clients read?

Yes. Analytics show how many people opened the guide, which pages held attention longest and where readers stopped. That tells you which sectors to expand next year and gives your consultants a reason to follow up.

How long can the guide be?

There is no page limit. A short regional pay snapshot and a full national guide covering every sector you recruit for are both fine, and adding chapters later costs nothing at all.

Can I update the guide after launch?

Yes. Correct a figure, add a region or fix a typo whenever you need to and republish. Everyone sees the current edition through the link you already sent, so there is no second email explaining which file to use.

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