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2026 Gender Pay Gap Report (GPGR)

Payscale’s 2026 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.

2026 Compensation Best Practices Report

Survey data and insights from HR and compensation professionals to support best-in-class compensation management in a year of strategic alignment.

2026 Salary Increases Preview Report

The Pay Increase Preview Report provides an early snapshot of what is in the full Compensation Best Practices Report, which reveals what salary increases organizations actually gave last year in 2025 and what they’re giving this year for 2026.

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Ebook

Comp 101 - Ebook

The Payscale Index tracks quarterly changes in total cash compensation for full-time, private industry employees in the six largest metropolitan areas of Canada.

November 14, 2022
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Quick Guide

Pay Transparency Legislation

While many states have already enacted salary history bans and Equal Pay laws, below we have provided information focused on disclosing salary ranges to candidates and internal hires either on the job posting or during the interview process. Here you can stay up to date with current transparency legislation in the United States, Canada and European Union.

September 7, 2022
Quick Guide
Pay Transparency
Whitepaper

The Anatomy of Modern Compensation

In this whitepaper, we lay out the anatomy of modern compensation — the heart, head, guts, and face of this critical process — and what sorts of changes organizations need to be making to remain competitive when it comes to managing sustainable fair pay for the workforce.

August 17, 2022
Whitepaper
Comp Strategy & Structure
Compensation Planning & Pay Increases
Modernizing Comp
Pay Communications
Ebook

A Resilient Approach to Managing Compensation Challenges

This ebook provides an overview of the compensation challenges you will face as a compensation professional as well as how to become more strategic in your approach to compensation management.

August 11, 2022
Ebook
Compensation Planning & Pay Increases
Pay Equity
Pay Trends & Hot Topics
Retention
Whitepaper

How To Manage Pay Compression With Agile Comp

Learn how to manage pay compression with Agile compensation planning using specific tools from Payscale to analyze pay compression and maintain pay equity.

June 27, 2022
Whitepaper
Compensation Planning & Pay Increases
Pay Equity
Pay Trends & Hot Topics
Retention
Whitepaper

Compensation Strategy: Responding to Rising Inflation & Cost of Labor

Analysis of the job market, quits rates, and average turnover by industry during the Great Reevaluation.

May 25, 2022
Whitepaper
Labor Markets
Webinar

Pay Structures Strategies: Why and How to Build Pay Structures

Join PayScale compensation professionals, Jenny Walling and Sam Noble to discuss all things pay structures.

May 11, 2021
Webinar
Comp Strategy & Structure
Compensation Planning & Pay Increases
Business Insights
Salary Data & Market Pricing
Labor Markets
Whitepaper

The compensation data landscape

Interested in the data types other organizations commonly use? Want to know what salary sources inspire the most confidence? Take a peek at our whitepaper

October 9, 2018
Whitepaper
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Whitepaper

Compensation Benchmarking Whitepaper

This guide will show you how to choose relevant data sources for benchmarking compensation and how to create salary ranges that align with your talent strategy.

March 2, 2018
Whitepaper
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Quick Guide

The landmines of labor market data

Discover how (and when) to use real-time labor market data in your compensation data strategy.

January 1, 1970
Quick Guide
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