Compensation Strategy

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Crafting a Clear Compensation Strategy for 2025 On-Demand Webinar

Join compensation experts as they unpack the latest data, insights, and best practices to help you build or refine a compensation strategy that drives performance, retention, and equity.

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How to Best Leverage Data to Fuel Your Compensation Lifecycle

Join Payscale data experts as they discuss how to use data to accomplish your key compensation initiatives.

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2025 Compensation Best Practices Panel

Join leaders from Payscale’s HR and compensation teams for an exclusive deep dive into the 2025 Compensation Best Practices Report.

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A guide to compensation management

What are the seven essentials of compensation management? From creating a compensation philosophy to using the right blend of salary types, this whitepaper offers a crash course in getting pay right.

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The Basics of Pay Analysis

This whitepaper provides a high level description of pay analysis commonly used by compensation professionals to assess pay fairness to market and retain workers.

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Getting started with job management - Whitepaper

In this guide, we provide data and best practices on managing pay differentials for education plus insights into the shift to skills-based talent management in the age of pay transparency.

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The Cost of Getting Pay Wrong - Whitepaper

Download this info sheet and learn how to choose the right compensation partner for your business.

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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.

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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.

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The New Playbook for Salary Negotiation in the Age of Pay Transparency

In this whitepaper, employers will learn what employees know and expect about the process surrounding salary negotiation today and what you need to do to impress savvy candidates and retain top performers.

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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.

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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

How many organizations have a formal compensation strategy today, and is that number growing?

61% of organizations say they have a compensation strategy, which is an 8% increase since 2024 and rises to 73% for Payscale customers.

Which pay structure are organizations most likely to adopt—traditional pay grades or job-based pay ranges?

While traditional pay grades are the most used pay structure today (66%), job-based pay ranges are most popular when combining current and future targets (44%).

How many organizations have a formal process for where employees land in the pay band and how they move up over time?

55% of organizations have a formal process for determining where employees fall in the pay band and how they progress up the pay band.