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2026 Salary Increases Preview Report

The Pay Increase Preview Report provides an early snapshot of what is in the full Compensation Best Practices Report, which reveals what salary increases organizations actually gave last year in 2025 and what they’re giving this year for 2026.

2025 End-of-Year Top Jobs Report

This annual report from Payscale looks at trends in the labor market and the hottest jobs of the year in 2025 as well as predictions for 2026.

2025 Pay Trends Report

This research report provides data-driven analysis on the state of the labor market, industry wage trends from Payscale Peer, and an exploration of HR-trusted AI-powered compensation tools shaping the future of market pricing in 2025.

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Webinars

Recruiting and Retaining Talent through Economic Uncertainty - Webinar On-Demand

Join us on Thursday, December 1st as we speak with JD “Xpert”, Don Berman about the role HR will play in leading organizations through the predicted economic downturn and how job description technology can be used effectively to consolidate, recruit, and retain.

November 16, 2022
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Whitepapers

The Basics of Pay Analysis

This whitepaper provides a high level description of pay analysis commonly used by compensation professionals to assess pay fairness to market and retain workers.

November 16, 2022
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The Compensation Maturity Journey

This session will cover the landscape of compensation challenges and the journey to mature compensation management, explaining the main steps in building a compensation strategy and program that not only meet your needs of today but can quickly adapt and change with you as the market evolves.

November 16, 2022
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Ebooks

Comp 101 - Ebook

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

November 14, 2022
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Pay Transparency Legislation Series, Ep. 4 - Webinar On-Demand

Join Payscale’s VP of People, Lexi Clarke; Chief Product Evangelist, Ruth Thomas; and Senior Corporate Attorney- Employment, Lulu Seikaly as they answer your most pressing questions surrounding recent and upcoming pay transparency legislation

November 14, 2022
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Pay Transparency
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How to Build Fair Compensation Policies that Support Pay Equity - On demand

Do you know if your compensation policies are working the way they’re supposed to or are they actually contributing to unfairness? A pay equity audit will uncover pay differences and help you to understand what factors actually drive pay variance in your organisation.

November 10, 2022
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Discovering the Value of the Peer Retail Network - Webinar On-Demand

Join the Payscale Peer Team and Retail Network Customer Jessica Lohan, Manager, HR Service Center, Barnes & Noble as they prove the unique value of the Peer Retail Network.

October 18, 2022
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MarketPay Focus Group

Join the MarketPay team as we explore areas for potential areas of product development. We are hoping this group can give us the feedback and insight we need to help MarketPay continue to be the go-to platform that world class compensation teams use to create and maintain fair pay strategies.

October 6, 2022
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5 Things to Prepare for 2023 Compensation Planning Season - Webinar On-Demand

Join Payscale’s Director of Total Rewards, Minde Stone; Chief Product Evangelist, Ruth Thomas; and VP of Data, Kim Taylor as they discuss the top things to think about as you plan for compensation in the new year.

September 23, 2022
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Q3: What’s New in Payfactors - Webinar On-Demand

Join the Payfactors product and data teams for an exclusive customer-only event covering what is new, and what is coming, in the Payfactors platform.

September 8, 2022
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Data Visualizations

Pay Transparency Legislation

While many states have already enacted salary history bans and Equal Pay laws, below we have provided information focused on disclosing salary ranges to candidates and internal hires either on the job posting or during the interview process. Here you can stay up to date with current transparency legislation in the United States, Canada and European Union.

September 7, 2022
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Research Reports

The Top Jobs and Skills in Human Resources

This whitepaper looks at which HR jobs are the fastest growing by wages as well as which jobs in HR are the highest paid overall (excluding executive leadership) and what skills and certifications contribute the most to pay.

September 2, 2022
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