Payscale^® Services Documentation

The below and linked Payscale Services Documentation (“Documentation”) applies to the Payscale Services purchased by Customer. This Documentation, together with the applicable Master Subscription Agreement and the applicable Order Form(s), comprises the Agreement. All capitalized terms used and not defined in the Documentation will have the meanings given to them in the Master Subscription Agreement or Order Form, as applicable.

We use the term Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) to refer to machine-based systems that generate predictions, recommendations, or other outputs based on human-defined objectives and/or input data. AI, as used herein, includes statistical modeling, machine learning, and other computational techniques, including both generative and non-generative approaches. Payscale is not responsible for the content produced with third-party generative AI features and does not guarantee that it is error-free, up-to-date, appropriate, suitable for its intended purposes, or free of bias. Please note that failure to provide clear prompts to any generative AI features (e.g., shorthand or undefined acronyms) may result in the AI feature’s failure to generate responsive suggestions.

Documentation relating to Implementation, Subscription Service, and Managed Services is available at: Implementation, Subscription Service, and Managed Services

Documentation relating to Success Tier and Professional Service Projects is available at: Success Tiers

Payscale Products

Payscale Payfactors^®

Payfactors is a compensation management platform that provides market data and technology to leverage data to help organization design, implement, and manage effective compensation strategies. Payfactors is available at the following levels:

1. Payfactors Basics: Access Payscale data and technology to market price jobs. The product functionality at this package level includes:

• Company Administration: Control functionality and data access to Payfactors users.

• Quick Price: Access multiple data sources for market pricing on the fly. 

• Pricing Projects: Access multiple data sets in a sandbox environment and move to market pricing. 

• Pay markets: Apply competitive sets based on industry, size and location to apply to your job pricings.  

• Employees: Manually add employee data to Payfactors.

• Jobs: Manually add job data to Payfactors.
  

• Data: Explore market data with Payscale Verse.

• Explore: Find relevant and timely compensation and labor market data and insights using AI-powered semantic search.

• Payge: Get answers to basic “how to” and “common issue” inquiries about the Payscale platform using this AI chatbot.

• Smart Assistant in Collective: Generate AI summaries of Payscale support documentation and community content in Collective, Payscale’s professional on-line community, with this AI-powered assistant.

2. Payfactors Professional: Market price your roles in alignment with your current employee and job data. Additional tools are available to implement consistency in job pricing. This package level includes everything from Payfactors^® Basics, in addition to:

• Employees: Import HRIS data through APIs for select vendors, SFTP, or manual upload to keep your employee and job data up to date. Information for import may include pay, pay changes, and employee details.

• Jobs: Import and centralize job information from your HRIS, including job titles, codes, and families.

• Data Insights: Access to pre-built reports and visualizations and create custom-build reports through an integration with Tableau.  

• Salary Structures: Build, edit and maintain salary structures using job-based or grade-based ranges. Sandbox functionality is also available.  

3. Payfactors Advanced: Scale your compensation program and streamline your survey management and participation. This package level includes everything from Payfactors^® Professional, in addition to:

• Survey Management: Centralize and manage all third-party surveys in a single location and monitor utilization.

• Survey Participation: Complete participation templates, audit participation and save for future re-use.

• Price-at-Scale: Apply consistent pricing rules across surveys at scale, with configurable data source preferences and optional AI-assisted match suggestions.
• Year-Over-Year Pricing Updates: Update annual survey matches using AI-assisted match suggestions. 

Add-ons (subject to additional fees):

1. Peer Global Network: The dynamic compensation benchmarking service developed by Payscale using Aggregated Data sourced from Payscale’s participating Customers. Customers who have purchased Peer Global Network may also purchase Peer Industry Networks, which are industry-specific data cuts available within Peer Global Network.

2. Smart Price: The Smart Price (“Smart Price”) feature is an AI-powered job pricing workflow available within Payscale Payfactors. Smart Price is designed to guide Customers through a structured pricing process of selecting their company’s jobs and suggesting relevant job matches from market data to support consistent, data-backed compensation decisions.

Functionality

Smart Price enables Customers to:

• Submit at least one Company Job and one Pay Market to initiate pricing.
• Receive AI-driven match suggestions based on job title and any additional job-related inputs provided.
• Review, accept, modify, or ignore suggested matches prior to publishing pricing.
• Price roles using purchased Payscale proprietary datasets and third-party surveys.

Data Sources

Smart Price supports pricing using:

• Verse data (included)
• Peer data (as purchased separately)
• Pulse+ data (as purchased separately)
• Up to ten (10) third-party survey datasets (surveys must be purchased separately)

Smart Price includes the ability to integrate third-party survey datasets as data sources within the pricing workflow. Smart Price does not include the purchase of third-party surveys. Customers may separately purchase the ability to integrate additional third-party surveys.

3. Smart Price Essentials: The Smart Price Essentials (“Smart Price Essentials”) feature is an AI-powered job pricing workflow available within Payscale Payfactors. Smart Price Essentials is designed to guide Customers through a structured pricing process of selecting their company’s jobs and suggesting relevant job matches from market data to support consistent, data-backed compensation decisions. Smart Price Essentials does not include the ability to integrate third-party survey datasets as data sources within the pricing workflow.

Functionality

Smart Price Essentials enables Customers to:

• Submit at least one Company Job and one Pay Market to initiate pricing.

• Receive AI-driven job match suggestions based on job title and any additional job-related inputs provided.

• Review, accept, modify, or ignore suggested matches prior to publishing pricing.

• Price roles using purchased Payscale proprietary datasets.

Data Sources

Smart Price Essentials supports pricing using:

• Verse data (included)

• Peer data (as purchased separately)

• Pulse+ data (as purchased separately)

4. Smart Price Additional Surveys - Pack of 10 USD/GBP/EUR

The Smart Price Additional Surveys – Pack of 10 USD/GBP/EUR (“Smart Price Additional Surveys”) is an add-on feature available to Customers who have purchased Smart Price. Smart Price Additional Surveys are not available for Smart Price Essentials.

Smart Price Additional Surveys provides the ability to integrate up to ten (10) additional separately purchased third-party survey datasets as data sources within Smart Price. Smart Price Additional Surveys does not include the purchase of third-party surveys; they must be separately purchased. Each survey slot corresponds to a single separately purchased third-party survey dataset.  

Functionality

Upon purchase of Smart Price Additional Surveys Customers may:

• Allocate up to ten (10) additional separately purchased third-party survey datasets for use within Smart Price.

• Utilize those separately purchased third-party survey datasets within the Smart Price workflow for pricing and match recommendations.

Customers are solely responsible for ensuring proper licensing and use of third-party survey data in accordance with applicable survey provider terms and the Agreement.

5. Payscale® Kickstart

The Kickstart (“Kickstart”) feature suggests pre-configured job pricing within select Payscale products. Kickstart is designed to enable Customers to access market pricing data upon activation by providing pre-built, industry-specific job shell suggestions aligned to a selected Peer Industry Network.

Functionality

Kickstart enables Customers to:

• Select a designated industry from available Peer Industry Networks.

• Access a predefined set of industry-aligned job shell suggestions (“Kickstart Jobs”).

• View associated market pricing data for those roles upon setup.

• Use the preloaded job suggestions as a foundation for further refinement and alignment to internal job architecture.

Customers may modify, align, map, or replace Kickstart Jobs or create additional jobs outside of the provided job set at any time. Customers may update titles, job codes, job levels, and descriptions to match internal structures and compensation philosophy.

6. Compass

The Compass (“Compass”) feature is an executive intelligence layer designed to help Customers understand how their compensation strategy compares to peers by analyzing aggregated, de-identified organizational data and positioning against comparable organizations (“cohorts”) to support strategic, data-driven workforce and compensation decisions. (Only available for Payfactors Professional and Payfactors Advanced.)

Functionality

Compass enables Customers to:

• View a benchmarked, directional summary of their compensation strategy across key workforce indicators, expressed as percentile positions relative to a selected cohort.

• Compare their organization to cohorts of similar companies using aggregated, de-identified platform data.

• Leverage AI-powered modeling to analyze compensation positioning at both the organizational and workforce segment level, including comparisons across equivalent job families, even when labeled differently across organizations.

• Use modeled insights to support executive-level planning and identify where compensation investment may be above or below cohort norms.

7. Job Description Management:  The Job Description Management ("JDM") feature is a centralized repository designed to help Customers create, manage, and maintain job descriptions whilst enabling controlled governance, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic consistency across their organization. (Only available for Payfactors Professional and Payfactors Advanced.)

Functionality

JDM enables Customers to:

• Create and structure job descriptions using customizable templates that enforce content standards and organizational consistency.

• Collaborate through built-in editing and approval workflows, allowing multiple stakeholders to contribute, review, and approve changes before finalization.

• Maintain a complete audit trail of historical versions, making it easy to compare descriptions against prior iterations or similar role descriptions.

• Leverage a pre-built job description library populated with competencies, skills, and role summaries derived from Payfactors compensation data to accelerate content creation.

• Generate initial job summary drafts using AI-powered modeling that synthesize basic job information, reducing manual drafting effort.

• Distribute finalized job descriptions to employees through acknowledgment workflows or direct sharing, creating documented records of employee notification.

Additional Terms

Your use of the AI-Generated Job Summaries feature is subject to the terms contained in the Microsoft Azure Legal Information, the Azure OpenAI Service Documentation, the applicable Microsoft Azure Product Terms, and the Code of Conduct for Azure OpenAI Service. For more information on the Azure OpenAI Service, you may further consult the Transparency Note for Azure OpenAI Service and this note on Azure OpenAI’s privacy and security practices. If you have any questions about these terms, please contact Microsoft directly.

‍8. Total Rewards Statements: Create customized statements that clearly communicate each employee’s total compensation package, including monetary and non-monetary rewards. (Only available for Payfactors Professional and Payfactors Advanced.)

9. Survey Management – Pro

Activate advanced survey functionality for up to 2 surveys loaded into the product. This add-on includes:

• Survey Management: Centralize and manage third-party surveys in a single location and monitor utilization.

• Survey Participation: Complete participation templates, audit participation and save for future re-use.

• Price-at-Scale: Apply consistent pricing rules across surveys, with configurable data source preferences and optional AI-assisted match suggestions.

• Year-Over-Year Pricing Updates: Update annual survey matches using optional AI-assisted match suggestions.

(Only available for Payfactors Professional.)

10. Smart Reporting

The Smart Reporting feature allows Customers to type a query into an AI chat interface to instantly produce reporting charts, tables, or visual summaries based on their loaded data in Payfactors. The AI model in Smart Reporting will provide responses to queries like "Show me a pay equity analysis by department and tenure" or "Compare our salary ranges to market data for engineering roles." Smart Reporting uses compensation data structures and compensation-specific templates, and understands the vocabulary of total rewards (compa-ratio, pay equity, merit bands, etc.) natively. This empowers Customers to generate board-ready compensation analyses without building complex tabular reports or switching to Excel. (Only available for Payfactors Professional and Payfactors Advanced.)

Functionality​

Smart Reporting enables Customers to:​

• Ask questions in plain English – the model provides answers to questions with an instant chart or summary.​
• Use pre-built standard report templates for common compensation analyses.​
• Filter Customer’s loaded data by department, job level, location, date range, and more.​
• Create, save, and share reports and dashboards.

Usage Limits​

Smart Reporting usage may be subject to limits as set forth in the applicable Order Form.

Payscale Marketpay

Marketpay is a compensation platform that delivers survey management and compensation management functionality that helps strategize for the future and execute across global markets. The following modules are included in Marketpay:  

• Survey Participation: Complete participation templates for specific formats needed for major data providers

• Survey Management: Manage all surveys in a centralized location and automatically receive updates as they are available.  

• Structure and Merit Modeling: Model scenarios for how changes to ranges, structures and merit will impact your pay strategy and budget.  

• Price at Scale: Apply your company’s pricing philosophy across groups of jobs

• Market Pricing: Match jobs to market data with a variety of tools either one by one multiple jobs at a time.  

• Reporting and Analytics: Access over 100 pre-built reports that can be customized. Integration with Tableau available for more visualized reporting is available.

• AI Match Suggestions to streamline the job match process for Customer’s survey

• Settings: Customize User permissions to provide groups access based on their role.  

Payscale Paycycle^™

Paycycle is a compensation review and adjustments solution that helps facilitate the increase cycle by bringing together market data, compensation budgets and internal guardrails to front line managers and their HR team. The following items are included as part of a standard Paycycle Implementation:

• Live environment with single sign on and branding (Logo and 2 colors) and user acceptance testing environment  

• One language

• Schedulable flat data import and historical information loaded (Up to three years of data imported and displayed in drilldowns)

• Up to 5 simple awards (per review)

• Up to 3 review screens (per review)

• HRBP Access (4 HRBP accounts per 1,000 employees per review)

• Budgets and guideline recommendations: Allow managers to allocate dollars as they see fit while allowing them to see varying scenarios and potential impact

• Recommendation history panel: Allow managers to see historical pay information of an employee for added context in their decision-making process

• Constraints: Apply hard and soft constraints on managers to maintain governance

• Actionable insights: Dashboards allow managers to review impact of award allocation before submitting.

• Customizable letters: Share updates with employees with a personalized compensation letter or email.  

• Benchmarking data: Incorporate raw or blended salary benchmarks to ensure awards are in line with the market.  

The following items can be added to the contract. Additional fees may apply:

• Complex awards (non-discretionary)

• Training environment one-time (1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year)

• Training environment recurring (1 year)

• Additional languages (translation must be provided by customer)

Payscale Datapeople Platform

Payscale Datapeople Platform is a recruiting intelligence and job description optimization platform that helps companies write, structure, and analyze job descriptions to create more effective hiring processes. By combining a massive, curated dataset of job postings with deep integrations into major applicant tracking system (ATS) and HR systems, Datapeople provides real-time suggestions on language, pay transparency, and job architecture.

The following items are included as part of the Payscale Datapeople Platform:

Account Setup & Configuration

• Up to one (1) 2-way ATS integration with a compatible  applicant tracking system (currently supports Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, SmartRecruiters, Gr8People, iCIMS, Greenhouse, and Lever)
• Automated periodic job import and management from company career page
• AML 2.0-based Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Secure environment hosted on AWS Cloud

Core Functionality

Smart Editor

Smart Editor uses a range of AI-based capabilities for natural language processing to deliver real-time suggestions to promote inclusive, compliant, and engaging job descriptions. This is based on a combination of statistical tools and computational linguistics models. All suggestions provided undergo human review prior to deployment. While we believe Smart Editor suggestions allow for contextual improvements to job posts, we do not guarantee that it is error-free, up-to-date, appropriate, suitable for its intended purposes, or free of bias, and you should not rely on it to perform in this way. Any suggestions should be reviewed by a human with appropriate qualifications for accuracy and propriety before it is used. Smart Editor includes the following functionality:

• Auto-save and version control
• Filterable library of job content
• Templating and flagship jobs to lock down best-in-class and frequently used content
• A similar jobs feed to surface similar previous job postings or similar jobs posted by other employers in the local talent market

Datapeople Anywhere

Datapeople Anywhere is a browser extension companion app for Chrome and Microsoft Edge that makes the Payscale Datapeople Platform’s templates and repositories available wherever you work.

Datapeople Insights

Datapeople Insights is a recruiting analytics feature that provides the following functionality:

• Real-time recruiting performance dashboards
• Real-time pay transparency compliance reports
• Weekly, content, and language snapshot reporting
• Funnel and pipeline performance tracking (2-way ATS integration required)
• Usage reporting

Datapeople First Draft

Datapeople First Draft is an LLM-based integration to the Payscale Datapeople Platform that helps companies get started with a powerful first draft to their job content. The content produced by First Draft is generated by an artificial intelligence (“AI”) language model, hosted through the AWS Bedrock Service and built with Meta Llama 3, and trained on job description data provided by Payscale. The following terms apply to your use of the First Draft feature. If you do not agree with these terms, or if you do not wish to engage with an AI language model, please do not use this feature.

Input. Specific sections of your job description like the title, location and/or the job description are used as inputs (the “Input”). You are solely responsible for any Input you provide to the feature. We will use the Input to provide the service subject to your agreement with Payscale. Once the Input has been used to generate job content, we do not store the Input to further train the AI language model that supports this feature. Please do not provide sensitive, personal, or highly confidential information as Input.

Output. The use of generative AI requires human review. The First Draft feature is not a substitute for human or professional advice or judgment. Payscale is not responsible for the content generated by First Draft (the “Output”) and expressly disclaims all liability in connection with your use of the Output. The Output should always be reviewed by a human with appropriate qualifications for accuracy and propriety before it is used.  While we believe First Draft can generate compelling job content quickly and easily, we do not guarantee that it is error-free, up-to-date, appropriate, suitable for its intended purposes, or free of bias, and you should not rely on it to perform in this way. Please note that failure to provide clear prompts to the AI (e.g., shorthand or undefined acronyms) may result in the AI’s failure to generate responsive job content.

Additional Terms. First Draft is built using Meta Llama 3, which is subject to the Meta Llama 3 Community License Agreement.

Questions? If you have any questions about the First Draft feature, please contact support@payscale.com.

Support & Enablement

• Dedicated account management
• Up to 2 virtual training sessions for recruiter and hiring manager enablement
• Live chat support (US Eastern time zone business hours)
• Self-serve learning center

Add-ons (subject to additional fees):

• Custom reports
• Custom guidance (e.g. brand or employer value proposition related checks)

Datapeople has been built using data from GeoNames.org, which is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Such data is used and modified as needed to provide accurate geographical and location-based information within our service.

Payscale^® Pay Equity

Pay Equity is a self-service pay equity analysis solution that provides functionality to complete controlled and uncontrolled pay equity analysis. Organizations can use this data to develop remediation plans with current budgets.

Payscale^® Data Services

Customer’s access to and use of Payscale Data Services are subject to the following terms and conditions.

Payscale^® Licensed Third Party Surveys

Customer’s use of Third Party Surveys licensed to Customer by Payscale through the Compensation Management Services is subject to the Survey Publisher’s terms below:

Aon Consulting, Inc. (“Aon”). Compensation surveys and publications published by Aon are subject to the terms and conditions available here: Terms and Conditions (https://www.payscale.com/content/dg/faq/Aon+Product+Terms+for+Payscale.pdf)

Culpepper and Associates, Inc. ("Culpepper"). Compensation surveys, data, and services provided by Culpepper are subject to the terms of service available here: Terms and Conditions (https://ww3.culpepper.com/TermsofService)

Empsight International, LLC (“Empsight”). Compensation surveys and publications published by Empsight are subject to the terms and conditions available here: Terms and Conditions (https://755961.app.netsuite.com/core/media/media.nl?id=419940&c=755961&h=feSYdnWda0-fmE0JZWiJGjvdpMoh33z7DAq8t4V54dNlFefM)

Korn  Ferry (US) (“Korn Ferry”). Compensation surveys and publications published by Korn Ferry are subject to the terms and conditions available here: Terms and Conditions (https://www.kornferry.com/terms/korn-ferry-order-form-terms-and-conditions)

Mercer (US) Inc. (“Mercer”). Compensation surveys and publications published by Mercer are subject to the terms and conditions available here: Terms and Conditions (https://www.imercer.com/productuseterms).

Pearl Meyer & Partners, LLC ("Pearl Meyer"). Compensation surveys and publications published by Pearl Meyer are subject to the terms and conditions available here: Terms and Conditions (https://pearlmeyer.com/terms-use) and as follows:

• The summarized market data contained in the Survey represents the copyrighted work product of Pearl Meyer based upon the contribution of member companies. Distribution to non-member companies is in violation of the terms of survey participation.
• The data and other information reported in the surveys may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or distributed or disclosed in any form by any means by any non-member company; including but not limited to electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of Pearl Meyer.
• The data and other information contained in the survey will be used only in connection with your internal human resources management and in the documents prepared for your company’s management.
• Any data provided to Pearl Meyer will be used only for compensation data reports and will maintain the highest degree of confidentiality.
• Under no circumstances are clients authorized to share their Pearl Meyer Survey Client portal login credentials (user ID, password) with others.

Third Party Services

Payscale^® Integrations

“Payscale Integrations” are APIs or other tools that allow Payscale Services to connect with a Third Party Service.

Support and Training. Customer understands that no training or support is provided by Payscale in connection with the implementation, maintenance, or use of a Payscale Integration.

Payscale^® For Consultants

Consultant Usage: Customer’s use of Payscale Services (including Payscale Data) to provide services to Customer’s clients (“Customer Client”) are subject to being specifically listed on an Order Form (including any scope limitations) and to the following terms and conditions:

Definitions:

“Payscale Report” or “Report” means a report generated through Payscale® Payfactors™ or Payscale® Marketpay using Payscale Data and Customer Data and created by running a certain Unique Job Code or Payscale Job Title in a Unique Pay Market.

“Payscale Job Title” means the job title used by Payscale to identify certain jobs tied to Payscale Data and located under the Payscale Job Title header when Customer runs a Report through the Payscale Service.

“Unique Job Code” means the job code used to identify a specific job.

“Unique Pay Market” means a combination of city, state, region, industry, company size, and other relevant labor market factors.

Use Restrictions. Customer may only use the Payscale Data or Payscale Report (together, “Report”), and the information contained in a Report as a part of a comprehensive bundle of services provided to a Customer Client. Customer understands and agrees that Payscale and its licensors have no obligation to provide any services (e.g., support services or Professional Services) directly to Customer Clients and that Customer is solely responsible for interacting with Customer Clients and solely liable to Customer Clients. Customer Clients are not an intended third party beneficiary under this Agreement. Customer must not: (a) grant Customer Clients direct access to Customer’s Account, a Payscale Report, or the Payscale Service; (b) sell the Payscale Reports on a standalone basis or charge a Customer Client a separate fee for all or any part of a Report; (c) advertise, promote, or communicate the sale of a product or service that is the same or similar to a Payscale Service, but at a lower cost than Payscale’s list price for such Payscale Service; (d) in Payscale reasonable discretion, solicit or attempt to sell the Payscale Service or Payscale Reports to any Payscale customer or prospective Payscale customer; or (e) use the Payscale Service or Payscale Reports for the benefit of a Customer Client who has a subscription to a Payscale Service. If Customer violates this Section 2, then such violation will be deemed a material breach by Customer.

Subscription Scope:. Unless otherwise agreed by the parties in the Order Form, the Payscale Service’s Annual Subscription Fee is based on the number of Reports generated by Customer through the Payscale Service. The annual limit on the number of Reports that Customer may generate through the Payscale Service is set out in the applicable Order Form (“Report Count”). For purposes of determining the number of Reports counted toward the Report Count, the following is included: (a) the initial creation of a Report; (b) any refreshes to an existing Report after modification to the Unique Pay Market or the Payscale Job Title; and (c) any refreshes to an existing Report that was created prior to the anniversary date of Customer’s subscription. For clarification, even if Customer deletes a Report in its Account, such deleted Report will still be counted toward the Report Count and any changes made only to the compensable factors of a Report will not create a new Report and is not included in the Report Count. If Customer exceeds the Report Count during the Subscription Term, the Annual Subscription Fee may be increased to reflect the additional usage based on the pricing set out in the Order Form (or if no pricing is specified, based on the pricing then in effect), except that Customer will be notified in advance of any adjustment to the Annual Subscription Fee.

Customer Client Data. For purposes of this Agreement, any Customer Client data provided to Payscale or loaded into a Payscale Service by Customer (or by Payscale on Customer’s behalf) will be deemed “Customer Data” under this Agreement and all licenses, warranties, rights, and other protections Customer has granted to Payscale in this Agreement regarding Customer Data will also apply to such Customer Client data.

Audit Rights. At any time during the Term of this Agreement and for up to 3 years after its termination or expiration, Payscale may (a) access Customer’s Account, and (b) audit Customer’s relevant records and files (including, pertinent portions of Customer’s contract with a Customer Client) (“Customer Records”), to ensure that Customer is using the Payscale Services and Reports only as permitted under this Agreement. Customer Records will be deemed Customer’s Confidential Information subject to the confidentiality requirements set out in the Master Subscription Agreement. Customer will provide Payscale a copy of requested Customer Records within 30 days after a request is sent. If Payscale discovers that Customer is using the Payscale Service or a Report in violation of this Agreement, then such violation will be deemed a material breach and Payscale may immediately suspend Customer’s access to its Account.

Report Count. If no report limit is listed in the Order Form, Customer is limited to a total of 100 reports during the Term.

Payscale^® Services for Renewal Only

Payscale^® Benchmark

Customer’s access to and use of Payscale Benchmark is subject to the following terms and conditions. All data included in Payscale Benchmark is Payscale Data.

Purpose and Definitions. Payscale Benchmark allows Customer to access Payscale Data and generate Market Reports. A “Market Report” means a report generated through the Payscale Service using Payscale Data and created by running a Unique Job Code in a Unique Labor Market. A “Unique Job Code” means the job code used to identify a specific job. A “Unique Labor Market” means a combination of city, state, region, industry, company size, and other relevant labor market factors.

Subscription Scope. Payscale Benchmark’s Annual Subscription Fee is based on: (a) the number of employees covered by Customer’s subscription; (b) the number of Market Reports Customer may maintain under its Account; (c) the job count, which is the number of Unique Job Codes in Customer’s Account; or (d) a combination of any of the foregoing subsections (a), (b), or (c) (“Benchmark Scope”). The Benchmark Scope is set out in the applicable Order Form. For Customers whose Benchmark Scope is based on Market Reports the maximum number of Market Reports that Customer may create through the Payscale Service is as follows:

Once a Market Report is established, a User may:

• Get updated market data on a Market Report an unlimited number of times during the relevant Subscription Term;
• Change any attribute of a Market Report’s Unique Job Code or Unique Labor Market with no effect on the total number of Market Reports that is counted toward the Benchmark Scope;
• Delete a Market Report which will reduce the count of Market Reports and create space for a new Market Report;
• Create a new Market Report that will count toward the Benchmark Scope; and
• view current and historical use of Market Reports, Unique Job Codes, Unique Labor Markets, and data updates to Market Reports through Customer’s Account.

If Customer exceeds the Benchmark Scope during the Subscription Term, the Annual Subscription Fee may be increased to reflect the additional usage based on the pricing set out in the Order Form (or if no pricing is specified, based on the pricing then in effect), except that Customer will be notified in advance of any adjustment to the Annual Subscription Fee.

Payscale^® Insight

Payscale® Insight includes access to Payscale® Pulse, a Data Sharing Service.

The Subscription Scope outlined above is not applicable and the below terms apply:

Subscription Scope. Unless otherwise agreed by the parties in the Order Form, the Annual Subscription Fee for Payscale® Insight is based on: (a) the number of employees covered by Customer’s subscription; (b) the job count, which is the number of unique job codes in Customer’s Account; or (c) a combination of the foregoing (“Insight Scope”). The Insight Scope is set out in the applicable Order Form. If Customer exceeds the Subscription Scope during the Subscription Term, Payscale reserves the right to increase the Annual Subscription Fee or charge an overage fee to reflect the additional usage based on the pricing set out in the Order Form (or if no pricing is specified, based on the pricing then in effect).

Payscale^® Insight Lab

Payscale^® Insight Lab includes access to Payscale® Pulse, a Data Sharing Service.

Payscale^® Pay Equity Services with USC Race and Equity Center

Payscale^® Pay Equity Services with USC Race and Equity Center. Payscale Pay Equity Services with USC Race and Equity Center is a pay equity service provided by Payscale in conjunction with the USC Race & Equity Center (“USC”). As a condition of Customer’s use of Payscale® Pay Equity Services with USC Race and Equity Center through the USC Payscale Account, Customer hereby authorizes (i) Payscale to transfer Customer’s Confidential Information (including Customer Data) to USC and (ii) USC to receive, possess, use and retain such data, in each case as may be required for USC’s implementation, administration, and management of Pay Equity Services with USC Race and Equity
Center.