Payscale Salary Benchmarking

6.0easy start · #17 of 35
in Pay Transparency Software

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Payscale Salary Benchmarking is ranked #17 of 35 in pay transparency software on The Geeks Club. It runs on Web. There is no free plan.

Payscale Salary Benchmarking plans and pricing

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Core Not published Smart Price and Explore · Standard and Smart Reporting · One-way HRIS integration · Custom reporting and certain datasets are add-ons payscale.com · 30 Sept 2026

Premier Not published Everything in Core · Price at Scale · Survey load and participation · 20 survey loads included · Custom reporting and certain datasets are add-ons payscale.com · 30 Sept 2026

Elite Not published Price a Job on demand · Bulk structure modeling · Unlimited survey load · Two-way HRIS sync · Custom reporting and certain datasets are add-ons payscale.com · 30 Sept 2026

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Workflow scope: both
Employee visibility: Yes
Range governance: Yes

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The record

Purpose: Payscale Benchmarking provides compensation data and software to help organizations price jobs and make pay decisions.
Data freshness: Payscale says its foundational HR-sourced peer data is refreshed daily with new pay changes, roles, and participating organizations.
Benchmark coverage: The product page says its AI-enhanced benchmarks cover more than 10,800 jobs, 112 industries, and 31,000 cities.
Market scoping: Users can define a competitive set by industry, organization size, location, or peer group.
AI-assisted pricing: Smart Price uses AI to match jobs to market data and provide pricing insights and confidence context.
Reporting: Smart Reporting supports natural-language questions and produces governed, explainable insights, while custom reporting and data exports are add-ons on all listed plans.
Integrations: Payscale advertises 14 HRIS API integrations, and its plans list one-way sFTP/API integration for Core and Premier and two-way sFTP sync for Elite.
Security and compliance: Payscale lists SOC 2 and TX-RAMP certifications and GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA compliance, with 24-hour security monitoring.
Data governance: Payscale says each data cut requires at least five contributing companies and no single company can account for more than 50% of a cut.
Support: Payscale offers custom benchmark studies, expert interpretation, implementation training, and change-management support.
Intended users: Payscale identifies compensation professionals, HR professionals, talent acquisition teams, and executive leaders as audiences for benchmarking.
Pricing availability: The pricing page lists Core, Premier, and Elite with Contact Sales and does not display prices.
Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, United States
Founded: 2002

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