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Whether you’re new to salary benchmarking or have been doing it for ages, it’s always interesting to poke around in someone else’s process.  That’s what we’re going to do today: let you poke around in […]

If you’re trying to figure out what to pay your employees, Payscale is the best compensation planning tool on the market. It’s got the most reliable data for compensation benchmarking, the best customer support, and

They seem simple enough at face value, but creating salary bands isn’t easy. It’s like building a product—the first iteration is going to be terrible. Salary band management takes multiple iterations and rounds of feedback.

Salary.com is a leading compensation benchmarking tool. We’ve used it ourselves, and it offers some of the most comprehensive compensation management tools without being pricey. Still, the truth is that compensation tools can be off

Many companies rely on accurate salary ranges to determine compensation and create pay equity among employees. If salary ranges become out of date, salary compression and unfair wages could result.  Whether your company is beginning

Salary range penetration compares an employee’s current salary with the pay range for their position. Essentially, it allows managers to see where an employee’s pay falls within a pay range to make it easier to

Need to do some salary benchmarking? It can be hard to pin down exact costs for a salary benchmarking tool like Payscale.  But we used Payscale for a year to learn how well it works—and

If you need accurate compensation data, go with Payscale. But you’ll have to pay $6-10K. Glassdoor is free but I’d be extremely skeptical of any data. I’d only use it for quick checks and rough

Salary.com and Payscale are two of the most popular compensation benchmarking tools. So which one has the best data? In my own analysis, the data quality of Payscale and Salary.com were comparable. Both products had