Education Compensation Survey and Management Solutions

In today’s swiftly changing world, educational institutions are competing to attract students and faculty as well as a wealth of administrative and supportive positions. Payscale provides salary data for all kinds of jobs common to universities and other education-based businesses.

Compensation Challenges for Education

Workplace flexibility

Following the pandemic, employees want to be able to work from home at least some of the time. Educational institutions are considering location-based pay strategies that can accommodate remote work.

Planning for pay increases

After a rough few years with rising inflation and increased opportunity, the talent you are most anxious to keep is also the talent you are most likely to lose if your employees' pay doesn't keep pace with the market.

Hiring in a competitive market

In a hot job market, opportunity is everywhere. Educational institutions need to offer more compelling salaries and total rewards packages to attract and retain the highly skilled talent they need to thrive.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Educational institutions are under increased scrutiny to ensure that commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is observable, consistent, and transparently communicated--starting with pay.

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Salary data in the healthcare industry available from Payscale right now

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Participant growth (2021) - Peer
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Peer is intuitive, easier, and more enjoyable to use than annual surveys, plus there is relevant, real-time data and no need to wait months and months. With the market changes of late, having data that changes with the agility of Peer is required. Peer’s real-time data is the only way to be credible with my leadership team. You simply cannot use quarterly or yearly data in times like these where markets are being directly influenced by the social and economic impacts of 2020 – Peer is the way to go now and in the future.
by Reet Ari, Senior Director, Talent Acquisition, Privia Health
How Payscale customers are leveraging the power of pay
Payfactors is the vendor that has the most accurate data and has given us much more confidence in where we stand in the market. Using Peer by Payfactors is the first time our leadership team hasn’t questioned the data Compensation and HR has presented. I’d recommend Payfactors to anyone in the hospitality industry in a heartbeat. We go to a HR conference each year and most of the other companies we meet with also recommended this as their go to platform.
by Amy Gundaker, Human Resources Specialist, Island Hospitality Management
How Payscale customers are leveraging the power of pay
"After surveying team members on their preferences, we opted to transition to a remote-first workforce and were able to model costs and conduct analysis on pay strategies to develop a globally-centered approach to compensation with geographic differentials that would be fair and equitable for team members. Payscale has been a phenomenal partner during this process and have also provided services to help us deliver asynchronous manager training to communicate our compensation strategy and rationale to team members as part of a pay transparency initiative.”
by Stacey Sutela, Director, Global Compensation & HR operations,  Vistaprint

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Stay in the know with the Payscale Index

The Payscale Index tracks quarterly changes in total cash compensation for full-time, private industry employees and education professionals. In addition to a U.S. trends index, it includes separate indices for specific industries, metropolitan areas, job categories, and company sizes.

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Education Compensation Research and Insights

End of Year Report

Payscale analyzes which positions job seekers were most eager to research salaries for in the 2021 calendar year and ranked the top ten with additional data and insights on the fastest growing jobs by wages and guidance around compensation planning.

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Compensation Best Practices Report

Payscale’s annual Compensation Best Practices Report (CBPR) is the largest survey dedicated to compensation, gathering information from thousands of respondents with data cuts by industry, performance, and organizational size.

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Connect Event Insights: Higher Education Whitepaper

Payscale hosted a Connect Event to hear from and better understand the comp challenges impacting higher education organizations. We then validated those challenges with research data and provided resources for potential solutions in this insights document.

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The Hottest Skills of 2021 Report

Payscale's compensation management software allows employers to calculate how a myriad of skills should impact base pay. This mini report from Payscale reveals the top competitive skills that commanded pay premiums in 2021 by occupational group. Learn what they are now!

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