Aggregate salary data strengthens job pricing confidence

Aggregate salary data in compensation software continues to grow in popularity. According to the Compensation Best Practices Report 2025, 49 percent of organizations use aggregate salary data with modeling to fill in data gaps.

Enterprise orgs have also been quick to adopt aggregate salary data, leading to a 10 percent increase in market pricing confidence. While aggregate salary data offers greater confidence in making market pricings, it can be risky.

Many vendors don’t offer transparency about their models calculate pricings. Discover what Payscale is doing with data modeling to overcome the biases inherent in aggregate salary data.