Meet the compensation data innovators
For over 20 years, Payscale has led the way in transforming pay into a strategic advantage — empowering forward-thinking organizations with breakthrough insights, trend-defining analytics, and the industry’s most trusted compensation data.
Revolutionizing the world of pay
Driven by the belief that properly rewarding people’s work is the superpower of great organizations, the Payscale team is delivering solutions that help organizations fuel lasting success, growth, and value for their business.
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Purpose-driven for smarter pay
Across the organization, Payscalers collaborate every day to equip employers and employees with the insights they need to ensure compensation works for everyone.
Mission
Payscale empowers people and employers with the strategic power of compensation by delivering the data, services, and software to get pay right.
Vision
Payscale’s vision is to transform the efficiency and equitableness of the compensation industry by delivering the world’s best compensation data, software, and services.
What matters to Payscalers
We're proud to rally around a core set of values that ensure we deliver the very best solutions for our customers.
Respect every individual, work as a team
We believe in creating an inclusive environment where everyone, regardless of level, respects each individual and allows for all voices to be heard. We do this by assuming positive intent and giving and receiving feedback.
When we miss, we own it and don’t point fingers so we can recover quickly and focus on the problem we’re working to solve together.
We take accountability and ownership but share credit and our wins and losses as a team.
Commit to excellence (we give our best everyday)
We’re hard to satisfy. We don’t settle for good enough or believe in mediocrity. We expect excellence and give it our best every day by focusing on outcomes and results instead of activity.
We hold a high bar for delivering to our customers, and an even higher bar for ourselves and those around us.
While we may identify a solution to a problem in the right now, we know we’re at our best when we’re committed to iteration.
Customer first: customer centric
We work towards solving problems in the best interest of the customer instead of the best interest of our own teams.
We spend time deeply understanding our customers so we can design and deliver solutions with them in mind.
We focus so much on understanding our customers that we’re not bothered by the competition.
Bias towards action
We don’t wait until tomorrow to accomplish something we can do today.
The compensation space can change rapidly, and we believe in taking fast action to stay ahead of our competition.
We are intentional in our decision making when we may need to tradeoff speed for more intensive analysis.
Data driven decisions
Data is what we do. We believe in knowing the details, data, and trends behind both what we do and how we do it.
We focus on using data internally to make our decisions, but we don’t get caught in analysis paralysis. We use our judgement to strike the balance.
“The thing that makes working for Payscale so special is the people. It’s the mission, but it’s the way that people show up for our mission and for our customers every single day. We create a safe environment for all our employees, that means a safe environment to learn, to make mistakes, and to get to build every single day on the toolkit that they’re developing in their role today or in their role tomorrow.”
“I know one thing that bonds everybody together at Payscale is that we’re all committed to making sure that every pay decision that is made is a fair decision and I know that’s why many people choose to come to work with us. Even though we’re a remote company, we’re a highly collaborative company working cross-functionally and we also believe strongly in transparency. We help organizations with pay transparency and we believe transparency is really important across the whole organization.”
“Something that’s been really important to me in my career is having the ability to combine mission with an incredible culture and incredible software and when I found Payscale it almost felt a little too good to be true but it hasn’t been and the culture, the mission, the people, the product are best in class.”
A history of innovation
Driven to succeed
Our team’s impact
Payscale’s over 700 employees, including more than 160 engineers, data scientists, security experts, and product managers, drive innovation while serving 16,000 customers and covering 20% of the US workforce.
Paying it forward
Being part of the Payscale team means contributing to a culture that prioritizes integrity, innovation, and continuous learning. The chance to work alongside talented colleagues in the fast-evolving compensation software industry, where we’re shaping the future of pay transparency and fairness, makes it both a rewarding and inspiring place to grow.
The most comprehensive tools for confident compensation
Our suite of products equips HR leaders and compensation managers in companies of all sizes to have powerful, data-driven conversations about pay.
Confident compensation in action
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After years of accelerated team growth due to acquisitions, Centauri Health Solutions needed to formalize a compensation strategy that could align with the speed of their business. They turned to Payscale’s experts to build a pay structure, seeking recommendations on pricing difficult jobs, standardizing job descriptions, and advising on the latest market trends. Today, this partnership has helped balance recruiting and retention efforts with Centauri’s ongoing rapid growth.
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