✦ PEER GLOBAL

The compensation data foundation that never stands still

Continuously refreshed, HRIS-sourced benchmarks from 4,500+ organizations — so every base salary, bonus, and total cash decision is built on data that reflects the market today.

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Precision modeling at enterprise scale

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Organizations
10M+
Incumbents
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Countries
36K+
Benchmarked jobs
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OVERVIEW

Global pay decisions deserve more than a once-a-year snapshot

Companies typically anchor on annual survey data alone. Peer Global adds a continuous pulse between cycles, delivering employer-reported compensation data —including base salary, bonus and short-term incentives, total cash compensation, equity and long-term incentives, and ongoing commissions — so you're never working off stale numbers.

TODAY'S REALITY
Reactive, fragmented, delayed
  • Limited country coverage
  • Gaps between survey cycles leave decisions on hold
  • Hard-to-defend cross-border ranges
  • Teams working from different data sets
THE INTELLIGENCE FUTURE
Proactive, connected, continuous
  • See exactly which organizations anchor your data cut — no opaque methodology
  • Custom cohorts — choose which organizations anchor your data
  • No surveys to fill out
  • Coverage for emerging roles that haven't made it into surveys yet
  • Powerful filters by location

The only market data
your peers help create

Peer Global isn’t scraped or modeled. It’s built from actual participant submissions across real organizations and refreshed continuously — so every pricing and planning decision is grounded in real, defensible peer data.

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Employee Records
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Benchmarking
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Access validated market data

Make decisions on data that reflects the market today.

  • Foundational Peer data refreshes continuously with new pay changes, new jobs, and new participating organizations  
  • Coverage for emerging roles that haven't made it into surveys yet
Stand behind every benchmark

Defend every number with clear methodology and audit-ready documentation.
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• Every data point is traceable back to participating organizations with full participation lists  

• Transparent methodology and confidence scoring  

• Built-in audit trails for pay transparency compliance and internal governance

• Transparent to the company level — see exactly which organizations are in your peer set, no opaque methodology or hidden competitors

Connected across the Payscale Intelligence Cloud

One governed data layer that powers job architecture, planning, and execution.

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• Defensible Peer Global benchmarks flow directly into JobNav for compliant job postings  

• Seamlessly integrates with Paycycle for modeling, planning, and merit cycles  

• Powers Ascent with the same defensible global data for advanced benchmarking and analysis  

• Insights surface inside the workflows where pay decisions actually happen

SOLUTIONS

Built for the way compensation teams work

Keep a pulse on market movement between survey cycles with fresh, employer-reported data that powers benchmarking, job management, and compensation strategy.

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By Use Case

Compensation Professionals

Fresh, defensible market data without waiting for annual cycles

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HR Professionals

Reliable and transparent benchmarks they can trust when advising leadership.

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Talent Acquisition

Current market data for faster, more accurate offers.

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Executive Leadership

Clear, defensible market positioning for the boardroom.

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Benchmarking

Fresh, defensible global market data to price roles accurately in between annual survey cycles.

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Job Management

Reliable international benchmarks that keep job architecture and levels aligned to the current market.

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Compensation Planning

Clear, up-to-date global insights that support confident pay decisions and board-ready positioning.

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PEER DATA ECOSYSTEM

Extend Peer Global with complementary datasets

Peer Global provides your core direct-HRIS benchmark foundation. Layer on additional Peer datasets for deep localized international markets, built-in compensation modeling, or industry-specific taxonomy.

Peer Markets

When your talent market crosses borders and local accuracy wins

  • Deeper coverage in 15 high-demand markets
  • UK, Mexico, Australia, Germany, France + more
  • Country-specific filters, localized accuracy
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Peer Enhanced

When data needs comp expertise built in

  • Geographic and location differentials — job by job
  • Regression analysis to normalize outliers
  • Consistent coverage across every role — the comp work, built in
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Peer Industry

When your industry is the benchmark

  • Industry-specific job taxonomy + filters
  • Vertical filters general databases don't have
  • Peer community + quarterly events
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✦ Customer success

Don’t just take our word for it

Hear from comp leaders how Payscale delivers clarity, scale, and trust in their compensation strategy.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Peer Global?

Peer Global is the core HRIS-sourced dataset in the Peer Data Ecosystem. It delivers continuously refreshed benchmarks from 4,500+ organizations across 150 countries — job coverage varies by country — so base salary, bonus, and total cash decisions reflect the market today.

What pay elements does Peer Global include?

Peer Global includes base salary, bonus and short-term incentives, and total cash compensation. Coverage of equity, allowances, and commissions continues to expand as participating HRIS fields grow.

How often is Peer Global updated?

In Ascent Core and Premier, Peer Global is updated daily. New eligible HRIS-sourced records enter the dataset every day as pay changes, new jobs, and new participating organizations join the network. Data age is monitored continuously and stale records are removed — the dataset is not locked to an annual effective date. Peer Global meets DOJ safe harbor guidelines, which require compensation data to be collected more than three months before use.

Do we have to fill out a survey to use Peer Global?

No. Data flows from participating organizations' HRIS systems. There is no traditional survey workbook to complete in order to access the data.

How many jobs and countries does the Peer Data Ecosystem cover?

The Peer Data Ecosystem covers 45,000+ benchmark jobs across 150 countries, drawn from 4,500+ participating organizations and 10.4 million+ employee records. Job coverage varies by country — depth is greatest in markets where HRIS participation is highest.

Can we choose which organizations we benchmark against?

Yes. With Ascent Core and Premier, Peer Global lets you see which organizations sit in your data cut and build custom competitor lists by named company, subject to anonymity thresholds. You can also filter by company size, revenue, geography, industry, business function, and date of hire. Peer Global also meets DOJ safe harbor requirements for anonymity — no individual organization's data can be identified in any output, with a minimum contributor threshold enforced across all data cuts.

Does Peer Global use third-party survey publishers?

No. Peer Global is Payscale's proprietary HRIS-sourced network. Third-party publisher surveys can still live alongside it in the platform as complementary sources, but they are not part of the Peer Global methodology.

What is the methodology behind Peer Global?

Participant data passes through five steps before entering the dataset:

  1. Jobs data is uploaded directly from an organization's HRIS:
  1. Customer jobs are matched to Peer Global benchmarks using purpose-built AI with expert review
  1. Employee compensation — including base, variable, and total cash where available — is applied to matched jobs
  1. Records are validated through automated outlier and freshness checks plus review by compensation experts
  1. Validated data is aggregated with other organizations' data for the same benchmark job to produce statistically reliable market rates.

Full methodology documentation is available — because at Payscale, transparency in data is non-negotiable.

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