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
We exist to unlock an organization’s full potential through compensation intelligence.
Vision
A world where compensation is an always-on strategic driver of performance, culture, and competitive advantage.
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.
Data informed decision making.
Data isn’t just a tool—it’s what we do, and we do it better than anyone else. We trust the facts. We use our judgment. We move with speed.
Succeed together.
We win as one team and we never lose alone. We take ownership of our decisions. We understand that teams are only as strong as their collective effort, so we push ourselves and each other every day.
Customer first. Always.
Customers are our purpose, and their success is our scoreboard. We build both for now and the future. We’re not vendors; we’re partners who bring our deep expertise to help customers lead with confidence in compensation.
Relentless about results. Obsessed with excellence.
“Good enough” isn’t in our vocabulary. We hold ourselves, and each other, to the highest standards, not just in outcomes but in how we get there: direct, accountable, and all-in.
Lead the change. Shape the standard.
We don’t follow trends, we set them. As category leaders, we question the usual, push limits, and raise the standard for our customers, teammates, and industry. We’re not just here to advise; we’re here to lead and boldly innovate what’s next.
“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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