Payscale Events

Compference26

Compference26 is a free, three-day virtual event where you’ll gain the strategies, confidence, and tools to unify compensation decision-making across your entire organization—from recruiting to finance to management—powered by fresh market data, proven practices, and real-world practitioner insights.

Upcoming Live Webinars

July

9:00 am

How to prevent offer and pay alignment issues that create hiring delays

Hiring has never moved faster, but many organizations are still relying on disconnected job structures, manual approvals, and inconsistent pay decisions behind the scenes. The result? Offer delays, frustrated recruiters, and candidates who accept another opportunity before your offer is ready.

August

9:00 am

How to plan salary budgets in an unpredictable labor market

Learn how compensation teams are adapting job pricing strategies using AI-assisted matching, skills insights, and unified market data workflows. Join Payscale’s live webinar on modern compensation benchmarking.

August

9:00 am

How to pay for emerging AI skills before your market data falls behind

Pay transparency is raising expectations for how organizations explain pay decisions, but transparency itself is not the challenge. The real challenge is whether employees, managers, and leaders understand how pay works.

August

9:00 am

How to align talent acquisition and compensation before hiring decisions break down

Hiring breakdowns rarely happen at the offer stage—they start much earlier, when Talent Acquisition and Compensation aren’t aligned on job definitions, leveling, and decision ownership.

September

9:00 am

How to defend your compensation and total rewards budget to finance

Compensation and Total Rewards leaders are facing more pressure than ever to justify workforce investments. Annual planning cycles are being disrupted by changing market conditions, evolving talent needs, and increased financial scrutiny, making it harder to build budgets that remain credible throughout the year.

Pay conversations, freshly brewed

Get ready to gain valuable insights about comp strategies from the lively conversations on Payscale’s podcast: Comp & Coffee!

Join us as we explore the delicate balance between the art and science of compensation, delving into the latest trends that shape the way organizations reward and retain their talent.

Missed a webinar? Access on-demand

July 8, 2026

How to design a compensation program ready for pay transparency

June 24, 2026

Why your top performers may be a flight risk

Flight risk is rarely loud. Most of the time, it shows up quietly in compensation data long before it shows up in resignation letters.

June 11, 2026

The right and wrong way to use AI in job descriptions

AI can speed up job description creation. It can also introduce bias, inconsistency, and pay transparency risk.

May 28, 2026

EU pay transparency directive is here. What HR leaders must do before it's too late

The clock is ticking on one of the most significant shifts in compensation regulation in decades.

May 21, 2026

2026 Compensation Best Practices Panel On-demand webinar

Join HR, compensation, and talent leaders for a special 90-minute panel exploring the biggest findings from this year’s 2026 compensation best practices report.

May 7, 2026

Compensation risk in the age of AI: Why more data is not better decisions

Compensation teams have more data than ever before. Survey data, job postings, internal data, and AI-generated insights are all available. But having more data has not made compensation easier.

April 3, 2026

Beyond Benchmarking: How Leadership Teams Use Compensation Signals to Navigate Workforce Risk

Join us for an exclusive look at Compass – the strategic intelligence layer that helps executive teams understand whether their workforce outcomes reflect intentional strategy or emerging drift.

March 29, 2026

What your ELT really wants to know about pay. A CPO and CFO conversation

Compensation is no longer just an HR process. It is a business decision that leadership teams are paying close attention to. In fact, 68% of executive leaders now view compensation as a strategic driver of business success, and 75% are requesting compensation reporting regularly, according to Payscale’s 2026 Compensation Best Practices Report.

March 20, 2026

Managing pay equity and pay gaps in an age of transparency | On-demand webinar

Join us for a data-informed discussion with pay equity leaders from Trusaic and Payscale as we explore how transparency is changing the rules — and what that means for your strategy, reporting, and pay equity conversations.

March 16, 2026

AI skills are changing roles. Are your job descriptions ready?

AI expectations are rapidly being added to job descriptions across nearly every function. But many organizations are doing so without a clear structure or framework.

February 27, 2026

Build a retention strategy for today's workforce On-demand webinar

Join livingHR and Payscale for a webinar which will explore practical, high-impact strategies for retaining critical talent in a volatile environment, with a focus on why traditional, siloed approaches to compensation intelligence are holding organizations back.

February 19, 2026

Mastering merit season: Best practices for success On-demand webinar

In this webinar, our compensation experts will share best practices for making the most of merit season—from early planning to execution and communication.

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