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Payscale Salary Benchmarking
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Spec sheet
- Purpose
- Payscale Benchmarking provides compensation data and software to help organizations price jobs and make pay decisions.Read 30 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
- Intended users
- Payscale identifies compensation professionals, HR professionals, talent acquisition teams, and executive leaders as audiences for benchmarking.Read 30 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
- 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.Read 30 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
- Support
- Payscale offers custom benchmark studies, expert interpretation, implementation training, and change-management support.Read 30 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
- Headquarters
- Seattle, Washington, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
- Founded
- 2002Read 28 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
- AI-assisted pricing
- Smart Price uses AI to match jobs to market data and provide pricing insights and confidence context.Read 30 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
- Benchmark coverage
- The product page says its AI-enhanced benchmarks cover more than 10,800 jobs, 112 industries, and 31,000 cities.Read 30 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
- Data freshness
- Payscale says its foundational HR-sourced peer data is refreshed daily with new pay changes, roles, and participating organizations.Read 30 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
- 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.Read 30 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
- Market scoping
- Users can define a competitive set by industry, organization size, location, or peer group.Read 30 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
- Pricing availability
- The pricing page lists Core, Premier, and Elite with Contact Sales and does not display prices.Read 30 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
- 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.Read 30 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
- Security and compliance
- Payscale lists SOC 2 and TX-RAMP certifications and GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA compliance, with 24-hour security monitoring.Read 30 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
Plans and prices
Core Priced on request Smart Price and Explore · Standard and Smart Reporting · One-way HRIS integration · Custom reporting and certain datasets are add-ons Read 30 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
Elite Priced on request Price a Job on demand · Bulk structure modeling · Unlimited survey load · Two-way HRIS sync · Custom reporting and certain datasets are add-ons Read 30 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
Premier Priced on request Everything in Core · Price at Scale · Survey load and participation · 20 survey loads included · Custom reporting and certain datasets are add-ons Read 30 Sep 2026 · payscale.com
Where Specifiction places it
- Salary Benchmarking Software#26 of 306.7
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