Plan for the future with the latest salary data
Paycycle, formerly Compensation Planning, gives you the tools you need to plan for regular pay raises to keep up with inflation, reward performance, and align with market trends.
Go beyond the initial salary offer with comprehensive planning
Set the standard in pay cycle management with a data-driven platform that seamlessly integrates with existing compensation workflows.
Over 400,000 compensation reviews have been completed in Paycycle by approximately 30,000 managers
Compensation technology users are 20% more confident in their pay increases for retaining and engaging talent than Excel-only users
Get to know Paycycle
Paycycle gives you continuous access to your salary data, plus tools and templates to model how pay increases will impact your bottom line.
Flexible planning and collaboration
Power confident pay decisions with scenario planning and guided workflows, giving clarity to leaders, and speed and control to managers.
Ensure compensation consistency and collaboration with real-time, configurable workflows and alerts
Equip managers with multiple award scenarios to drive home your comp principles
Get real-time visibility into review progress for proactive stakeholder management
Secure data and communication hub
Unify and secure compensation data and communication to minimize risk and ensure control.
Monitor budget spend across the organization in real time
Set clear guardrails to keep managers aligned and on track
Easily and securely share personalized compensation updates with employees directly from the tool
Data-driven insights
Get real-time benchmarks and insights to power precise, fair comp decisions every time.
Leverage real-time dashboards with advanced, data-rich visuals for instant benchmarking
Gain actionable insights to ensure accurate and equitable compensation planning
Achieve a clear line of sight between employee achievement and pay with accurate, accessible employee pay histories
Paycycle features
Discover the product features that make Paycycle the trusted choice for HR teams and compensation managers.
Budget
Save time and increase accuracy with the ability to monitor budget spend across the organization in real time
Configurable guidelines and constraints
Ensure compensation consistency and collaboration with real-time, configurable workflows and alerts
Employee history views
Give managers the data they need to make smart, informed compensation decisions — saving time and reducing errors
Actionable insights
Leverage real-time dashboards with advanced, data-rich visuals to unlock powerful insights that shape smarter, data-driven pay strategies
Letters
Effortlessly communicate pay changes directly to employees and increase pay transparency
Security
Store pay data securely in one place, ensuring integrity and minimizing risk
Confident compensation in action
“It was a fantastic experience. Such a good idea to give the manager, who actually knows their team members, the opportunity to fairly distribute the amounts. Paycycle (formerly Payscale Compensation Planning) is well thought out and brilliant"
Ralph Steward
Vice President of Rewards, Sage
A world leader in advanced medical design and manufacturing, Integer Holdings provides the medical devices, components, and batteries that hospitals, doctors, and patients rely on. With a goal of ensuring their pay-per-performance compensation plan remained competitive, they turned to Payscale. Now, they have a centralized source for all market pricing that leverages real-time data and saves hours of manual work.
A world leader in advanced medical design and manufacturing, Integer Holdings provides the medical devices, components, and batteries that hospitals, doctors, and patients rely on. With a goal of ensuring their pay-per-performance compensation plan remained competitive, they turned to Payscale. Now, they have a centralized source for all market pricing that leverages real-time data and saves hours of manual work.
A world leader in advanced medical design and manufacturing, Integer Holdings provides the medical devices, components, and batteries that hospitals, doctors, and patients rely on. With a goal of ensuring their pay-per-performance compensation plan remained competitive, they turned to Payscale. Now, they have a centralized source for all market pricing that leverages real-time data and saves hours of manual work.
Powerful insights for industry change makers
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, with 3,595 participants representing organizations of all sizes and industries.
"Paycycle was our saving grace of a system because all of our compensation statements used to be done manually for our 800 employees. Ultimately, Payscale really captured everything we needed."
Companies across the U.S. and beyond trust Payscale with the important work of compensation management.
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