Payscale

Payscale is a commercial compensation software company that combines salary data, workflows and AI-assisted insights. HR, finance and business leaders use it to benchmark roles against the market, structure jobs, and make pay decisions they can explain and defend, including for pay equity and pay transparency requirements.

Its product line includes Ascent, a newer benchmarking solution, JobNav for job architecture, descriptions and classification, JobNav Recruiter for compliant job postings, and Paycycle for managing merit cycles and pay raises. Use cases are grouped into benchmarking, job management and compensation planning, with offerings aimed at HR professionals, compensation specialists, talent acquisition and executives.

Payscale also publishes research reports, webinars, a blog and customer stories, including an annual salary budget survey. It is a hosted service with a pricing and plans page, and it is not open-source software.