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2025 Compensation Best Practices Report
Payscale’s 16th annual Compensation Best Practices Report (CBPR) distills data and insights from the largest known survey on compensation management best practices.
Salary Budget Survey (2024-2025)
The Salary Budget Survey (SBS) from Payscale provides insights on what organizations are planning for base pay increases in 2025 in the United States, Canada, and select international locations as well as what pay increases actually were in 2024.
2025 Gender Pay Gap Report (GPGR)
Payscale’s 2025 gender pay gap report reveals how much women are paid compared to men, both overall and controlled for job, and analysis by parent status, job-seeking status, remote work status, and more.
Running a second comp cycle
Learn why top-performing organizations do more frequent comp cycles in this guide.
How to Best Leverage Data to Fuel Your Compensation Lifecycle
Join Payscale data experts as they discuss how to use data to accomplish your key compensation initiatives.
2025 Compensation Best Practices Panel
Join leaders from Payscale’s HR and compensation teams for an exclusive deep dive into the 2025 Compensation Best Practices Report.
CBPR highlights: Business Services Industry
Gain valuable insights into the industry's strengths and areas for improvement to stay ahead in the competitive landscape.
CBPR highlights: Construction Industry
Gain valuable insights into the industry's strengths and areas for improvement to stay ahead in the competitive landscape.
Discover CBPR highlights for the Retail industry
This data sheet and deep dive into the Retail industry sheds light on compensation practices. Gain valuable insights into the industry's strengths and areas for improvement to stay ahead in the competitive landscape.
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Tackling talent shortages in manufacturing
Check out our asset for tips to contend with talent shortages.
What’s the price of free salary data?
Discover how (and when) to use real-time labor market data in your compensation data strategy.
Why salary surveys are so darn popular
Payscale equips organizations to make the most of their salary data investment.
How to Strengthen Your Salary Data Strategy
Join Payscale salary data experts as they explore the intricacies of how to design and optimize your compensation data strategy.
The landmines of labor market data
Discover how (and when) to use real-time labor market data in your compensation data strategy.
2025 Gender Pay Gap Report (GPGR)
Payscale’s 2025 gender pay gap report reveals how much women are paid compared to men, both overall and controlled for job, and analysis by parent status, job-seeking status, remote work status, and more.
2025 Compensation Best Practices Report
Payscale’s 16th annual Compensation Best Practices Report (CBPR) distills data and insights from the largest known survey on compensation management best practices.
Pay Transparency Legislation Best Practices in 2025
Join Payscale’s Chief Product Evangelist, Ruth Thomas and Senior Corporate Attorney-Employment, Lulu Seikaly as they discuss the current landscape of pay transparency legislation and dig into exciting new data around how organizations are approaching it in 2025
Sapient Annual HR Systems Survey (report)
In Sapient Insights Group’s 2024-2025 Annual HR Systems Survey Report, Payscale ranked in the Top 5 of Compensation Solutions for User Experience and Vendor Satisfaction for enterprise, mid-market, and SMB.
Q&A from salary survey pros for prevailing during participation season
If you’re a survey participation newbie or a seasoned pro, you’ll find something useful here.
Optimizing your pay increase cycle
Discover how to leverage the right stakeholders and right tools to optimize your pay increase cycle today.
Your guide to successful survey participation
We created this guide to help you minimize the time and effort it takes to participate in surveys and avoid costly mistakes.
Are your wages keeping pace with inflation? - Whitepaper
Runaway inflation caught everyone by surprise, and while inflation has come down, it could quickly become a problem again.
Greatest growth in job postings and wages - Whitepaper
Discover which employees have the most leverage in finding new, better paying positions and what you can do about it.
What jobs are most at risk for turnover? - Whitepaper
We unveil the jobs with the highest quit rates in 2024, and examine industries where turnover is causing the most problems
The Top Jobs of 2024
Payscale’s 2024 End-of-Year Report looks at the state of the job market, the top 10 in-demand jobs by wage growth, the top jobs people are seeking to quit, and top jobs employers are trying to recruit in 2024.
2024 Peer Trends Report
The 2024 Peer trends report examines market data in 2024 to demonstrate trends and provide helpful insights into fast-moving jobs.
CBPR highlights: Food & Beverage Industry
Download the data sheet to explore in-depth insights and actionable strategies for optimizing compensation practices in the Food & Beverage industry.
SBS highlights: Food, Beverage & Hospitality
Our Salary Budget Survey features insightful analysis sourced directly from compensation professionals broken out across key firmographic and geographic segments.
SBS highlights: Retail & Customer Service Industry
Our Salary Budget Survey features insightful analysis sourced directly from compensation professionals broken out across key firmographic and geographic segments.
SBS highlights: Agencies & Consultancies Industry
Our Salary Budget Survey features insightful analysis sourced directly from compensation professionals broken out across key firmographic and geographic segments.
SBS highlights: Technology (including software) Industry
Our Salary Budget Survey features insightful analysis sourced directly from compensation professionals broken out across key firmographic and geographic segments.
SBS highlights: Manufacturing Industry
Our Salary Budget Survey features insightful analysis sourced directly from compensation professionals broken out across key firmographic and geographic segments.
SBS highlights: Healthcare & Social Industry
This guide isolates the data for the Healthcare & Social Assistance industry in particular.
Compensation planning stakeholder checklist 2024
This checklist can serve as a quick guide regarding stakeholder perspectives to consider and address during the compensation planning process.
Compensation planning stakeholder checklist 2024
This checklist can serve as a quick guide regarding stakeholder perspectives to consider and address during the compensation planning process.
Compensation planning stakeholder checklist 2024
This checklist can serve as a quick guide regarding stakeholder perspectives to consider and address during the compensation planning process.
Compensation planning stakeholder checklist 2024
This checklist can serve as a quick guide regarding stakeholder perspectives to consider and address during the compensation planning process.
CBPR highlights: Retail & Customer Service industry
Gain valuable insights into the industry's strengths and areas for improvement to stay ahead in the competitive landscape.
CBPR highlights – Agencies & Consultancies industry
Download the data sheet to explore in-depth insights and actionable strategies for optimizing compensation practices in the Agencies & Consultancies industry.
CBPR highlights: Manufacturing industry
Download the data sheet to explore in-depth insights and actionable strategies for optimizing compensation practices in the Manufacturing industry.
CBPR highlights: Technology (including software) industry
Download the data sheet to explore in-depth insights and actionable strategies for optimizing compensation practices in the Technology (including software) industry.
CBPR highlights: Healthcare & Social Assistance industry
Download the data sheet to explore in-depth insights and actionable strategies for optimizing compensation practices in the Healthcare & Social Assistance industry.
CBPR highlights: Education industry
Download the data sheet to explore in-depth insights and actionable strategies for optimizing compensation practices in the Education industry.
Salary Budget Survey (2024-2025)
The Salary Budget Survey (SBS) from Payscale provides insights on what organizations are planning for base pay increases in 2025 in the United States, Canada, and select international locations as well as what pay increases actually were in 2024.
Equipping people managers - ebook
Navigating pay conversations can be challenging, but they are crucial for fostering transparency and trust within your organization.
Compensation software buyers guide
Get expert insights and practical tips to navigate the complex landscape of compensation software with confidence
College Impact on Compensation Report
This report examines differences in pay between college graduates and non-college graduates and which jobs see the most differentiation with guidance on how to manage graduate premiums equitably.
What’s Next for Annual Reviews?- Webinar On-Demand
Join Payscale’s Chief Evangelist, Ruth Thomas as she considers whether a once-a-year approach to reviewing compensation is enough.
Top Performers Report
Insights on what differentiates top performers from non-top performers when it comes to compensation management practices, with segmentation by smaller and larger organizations.
The Cost of Getting Pay Wrong - Whitepaper
Download this info sheet and learn how to choose the right compensation partner for your business.
Fundamentals of Compensation - Webinar On-Demand
Join Payscale as we go back to the basics and walk through key steps for designing, executing, and administering a comp program.
