Does your pay curriculum make the grade?

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With unfair pay driving 37% of talent "dropout,” more academic institutions turn to Payscale for rapid, accurate, and dependable solutions to elevate compensation as a "scholarship" for attracting and keeping top faculty and staff.

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Colleges & Universities trust Payscale to make critical compensation decisions

Overwhelmed by scale

Education faces tight budgets and pay lags behind the broader market, with higher variability in salaries for executive and faculty roles

Blinded by data gaps

Confidence in market pricing and pay equity is high priority, but disconnected systems bury insights amid pay transparency pressures

Exposed to risk

Education organizations lag in compensation maturity — with many still relying on spreadsheets and case-by-case pay communications — increasing exposure to unfair pay perceptions, compliance scrutiny, and talent loss

Get to the head of the class

Education enterprises don’t need another spreadsheet workaround. They need a framework they can trust. Payscale helps you execute consistently:

Automate survey management and participation: Eliminate manual pulls and error-prone uploads for industry-specific benchmarks.
Confidently price hundreds of jobs, at-scale: Daily updates and unmatched transparency ensure you are pricing at today’s market rate - whether it’s faculty, staff, admin, or professional roles.
Apply a unified framework to job families & structures: Align grades and ranges enterprise-wide, handling complexities like executive/faculty variability and tight budgets with fewer fire drills.

Pass the grade with the colleges & universities Peer Industry Network (PIN)

With over 150 participating institutions, only Payscale connects you to a collaborative network of peers for precise, industry-specific benchmarking.

Customized job lists & compensable factors: Tailored to education complexities, covering nearly 1,500 roles across academic, administrative, and support functions, with scopes for executive and faculty variability and pay equity.
Advanced peer filters: Segment data by institution type, AAU membership, or Carnegie Classification to create highly targeted and relevant insights.
Real-time market trends and incentive planning: Spot pay pressures early, with insights on variable pay, merit increases, and promotions amid tight budgets.

Spot pay shortfalls and fix them first

Education comp teams have more data than ever, but not always the clarity they need for retaining qualified staff. Payscale unifies pay and org data, then flags risks and outliers so you can focus where it matters most:

Zero in on impact work: Spend time on what drives the business, like addressing pay equity for faculty and administrative roles.
Give leaders fast, defensible answers: Arm execs with clarity they trust, using AI-assisted job matching for nuanced positions.
Stay ahead of risk: Catch compliance and pay equity issues early, with transparent data compliant with antitrust guidelines.

Work smarter with expanded HRIS API integrations from Payscale

Enterprise education organizations rely on Payscale to make informed, real-time pay decisions (without the inefficiencies of system hopping).

Our seamless API integrations with leading HRIS providers ensure your compensation data flows securely and at scale.

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“Payscale changed my life. I can’t imagine doing compensation work without it now.

The three things I can attribute to [Payscale] directly are quality, consistency, and efficiency. I get calls all the time from other software vendors, but I don’t even want to entertain the idea of using someone else, because I love it so much. And obviously the service is out of this world.”

Michelle Huse

Associate Vice President, Culture & Talent at Baylor University

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