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 your people precisely for where they live
Workforce compositions are changing, and organisations need a fast and adaptive response. Payscale geo differentials data supports international compensation strategies for distributed teams and remote work.
Introducing Geo Differentials Engine
Payscale's Geo Differentials Engine provides companies a pulse on the market with visibility into market trends to adapt quickly to change, drive a location-based pay strategy that encompasses remote work, hire competitively and optimise salary budgets—all in one solution.
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Explore
View geo differentials for over 10,000 locations for the last two years by quarter or by year and drill down to see differentials broken out by job family.
Apply
Apply geo differentials using either our data or yours to understand how your job roles are positioned to market and the salary range through the lens of geographic location.
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Schedule a demoPrice jobs by location the new easy way
Driving a location-based pay strategy was historically manual, time consuming and not built for scale, but with Payscale it's fast, easy, granular and integrated
- Smart: Add differentials en masse across structures and at the employee level
- Simple: Model adjustments to base pay for specific employees by location
- Quick: Apply with one click and bring employees to market instantly
- Timely: Review data any time by quarter and by year with two years of history
Fresh perspectives on remote work and location-based pay
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.
2024 End-of-Year Report
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.
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.
Start applying geo differentials for a location-based pay strategy today
Ask how our compensation software with geo differentials technology can help you develop a location-based pay strategy to support remote work and get pay right. Fill out our form to request a demo.
