2025 Compensation Best Practices Report
Payscale’s 16th annual Compensation Best Practices Report (CBPR) distills data and insights from the largest known survey on compensation management best practices.
Compensation planning software
Comp management is about more than the initial salary offer. You also have to plan for regular pay raises to keep up with inflation, reward performance and adjust to the changing market, all while maintaining pay equality.
Payscale makes compensation planning easy
With Payscale, you get continuous access to fresh salary data on how the market has changed, the ability to review employee performance alongside merit increases, and AI-powered tools and templates to model how pay increases will impact salary budgets and pay equality.
Collaborate directly with managers on pay raises
Payscale's compensation planning software streamlines how you share information with managers about salary data and budgets, collaborate on recommendations for pay raises both in and out of the pay increase cycle, and obtain approvals to get pay right.
- Invite managers to be part of the process
- Configure workflows with the right people
- Communicate in one secure location
- Steer managers in the right direction
- Provide visibility into budget availability
- Enable effective pay communications
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Improve collaboration
With customisable workflows, HR can directly and seamlessly interact with managers on pay increases to maximise salary budgets, reward performance and ensure fair pay for team members.
Foster transparency
By inviting people managers to be part of the pay increase process, you enable stronger pay communications between employees and their managers and build trust in HR across the organisation.
Streamline processes
Payscale software sends notifications, enables chat, records change history and manages permissions so you can focus less on administrative tasks and more on getting pay right.
What's next? Manage equal pay alongside pay raises
Payscale bakes pay equality into compensation planning
Payscale wants to help you take compensation planning and the pay increase cycle a step further. With the evolving features of our compensation management software suite, Payscale offers increased functionality to monitor internal pay equality at the same time as recommending raises for high-performing employees.
Get help with compensation planning for pay increases
Payscale has managed service teams with compensation consultants to help you get the most from your compensation software
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Fresh perspectives on compensation planning and the
pay increase cycle
Sapient Annual HR Systems Survey (report)
In Sapient Insights Group’s 2024-2025 Annual HR Systems Survey Report, Payscale ranked in the Top 5 of Compensation Solutions for User Experience and Vendor Satisfaction for enterprise, mid-market, and SMB.
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.
Top Performers Report
Insights on what differentiates top performers from non-top performers when it comes to compensation management practices, with segmentation by smaller and larger organizations.
Ready to start streamlining collaboration on pay increases?
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