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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 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.

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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Research Reports

Discover CBPR highlights for the Retail industry

This data sheet and deep dive into the Retail industry sheds light on compensation practices. Gain valuable insights into the industry's strengths and areas for improvement to stay ahead in the competitive landscape.

May 13, 2025
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Business Insights
Comp Strategy & Structure
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Growth
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Tackling talent shortages in manufacturing

Check out our asset for tips to contend with talent shortages.

May 13, 2025
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Aggregate salary data strengthens job pricing confidence

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.

May 13, 2025
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MarketPay Customer Summit: Confidently Navigate the Future of Compensation

Join Payscale's CEO and CPO for an exclusive MarketPay customer event designed to help you stay ahead in an evolving compensation landscape. In this one-hour virtual summit, we’ll dive into our product vision and roadmap—highlighting how we’re delivering innovation through a modern user experience, data-driven insights, continuous value delivery, and the integration of AI across our platform. You’ll get a front-row look at what’s coming next and how it can help you drive stronger outcomes for your teams and business.

April 21, 2025
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Stay Ahead of 2026: Ensure Compliance and Build a Stronger Compensation Strategy

Join us for a webinar where Payscale's SVP of Marketing will walk through how organizations can get ahead of these changes using compensation data, benchmarking, and strategy-driven tools to build salary structures, improve internal equity, and communicate compensation with clarity and confidence.

April 18, 2025
Webinars
Pay Transparency
Whitepapers

A guide to compensation management

What are the seven essentials of compensation management? From creating a compensation philosophy to using the right blend of salary types, this whitepaper offers a crash course in getting pay right.

April 15, 2025
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Quick Guide

What’s the price of free salary data?

Discover how (and when) to use real-time labor market data in your compensation data strategy.

April 15, 2025
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Why salary surveys are so darn popular

Payscale equips organizations to make the most of their salary data investment.

April 4, 2025
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Unlock Instant Access to the Market’s Top Salary Surveys - Webinar On-Demand

Join our upcoming webinar to discover how Payscale simplifies your access to the most trusted compensation survey source.

March 28, 2025
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Webinars

How to Strengthen Your Salary Data Strategy

Join Payscale salary data experts as they explore the intricacies of how to design and optimize your compensation data strategy.

March 25, 2025
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Quick Guide

The landmines of labor market data

Discover how (and when) to use real-time labor market data in your compensation data strategy.

March 25, 2025
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Research Reports

2025 Gender Pay Gap Report (GPGR)

Payscale’s 2025 gender pay gap report reveals how much women are paid compared to men, both overall and controlled for job, and analysis by parent status, job-seeking status, remote work status, and more.

March 21, 2025
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Pay Transparency
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