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2024 Compensation Best Practices Report

Payscale’s 15th annual Compensation Best Practices Report (CBPR) distills data and insights from the largest known survey on compensation management best practices.
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Salary Budget Survey (2024-2025)

The Salary Budget Survey (SBS) from Payscale provides insights on what organizations are planning for base pay increases in 2025 in the United States, Canada, and select international locations as well as what pay increases actually were in 2024.
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2024 Gender Pay Gap Report (GPGR)

Payscale’s 2024 gender pay gap report reveals how much women are paid compared to men, both overall and controlled for job, and analysis by parent status, job-seeking status, remote work status, and more.

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Research Reports

2024 Compensation Best Practices Report

Payscale’s 15th annual Compensation Best Practices Report (CBPR) distills data and insights from the largest known survey on compensation management best practices.
Research Reports

2023 Compensation Best Practices Report – Manufacturing Edition

Learn how manufacturing employers are responding to multiple challenges with the goal of bringing sustainable change in compensation management that will see fairer, more transparent pay as we adapt to a new landscape of work. 
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Manage Pay for a Remote Workforce

Switching to a remote work approach has many benefits; however, it can also create new challenges for employers – including how to determine compensation for remote employees.
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Lessons in Pay Transparency From the Public Sector

This expert brief provides insights and advice from three public sector comp and HR pros who have experienced the benefits and opportunities of managing pay transparency for their public organizations.
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2023 Compensation Best Practices Report – Enterprise Edition

Payscale’s 2023 Compensation Best Practices Report – Enterprise Edition highlights relevant data, employment, and compensation needs in enterprises with 1,200 employees or more.
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Compensation Management Solution Perspective

Read about why global enterprise organizations, market leaders, and growing businesses trust MarketPay to deliver the comprehensive capabilities they need for compensation.
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Comp Quick Guide: Managing Pay Compression

Compression is the result of numerous issues and typically flares up in times of high economic uncertainty. In this quick guide, you’ll find the data, professional perspective, and the five actions to help assess and manage pay compression.
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Comp Quick Guide Pay adjustments after M&A

Read about how to effectively manage employee compensation before, during, and after a merger to positively impact your ability to retain and engage talent.
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2024 Q3 Payscale Index US

The Payscale Index tracks quarterly changes in total cash compensation for full-time, private industry employees in the US and the six largest metropolitan areas of Canada.
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2024 Q3 Payscale Index Canada

The Payscale Index tracks quarterly changes in total cash compensation for full-time, private industry employees in the six largest metropolitan areas of Canada.
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Salary Budget Survey (2022-2023)

A mid-year research report providing insights on actual and anticipated pay increases planned for the coming year by employee type, industry, company size, and location for budget planning purposes.
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The Hottest Skills of 2021 Report

This mini report from Payscale reveals the top competitive skills that commanded pay premiums in 2021 by occupational group.

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