PayScale Suite

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PayScale Suite provides the right level of data, Assembles a modern compensation strategy and structure and communicate compensation with confidence. Forestall costly turnover and ensure pricing is accurate for every job. Rich in unique features and totally friendly tool to work with.

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Only works on Desktop and Laptop, Android and iPhone/iPad platforms are not supported.

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It's a great tool--they have an impressive amount of data from which they are pulling results. It's one of the more impressive salary tools out there because it takes into consideration factors that other tools are not - such as level of experience, region of the country, how much education you've had, and drills down even more specific than that. You can price by a job title if you are a recruiter or other HR professional or you can price out a potential offer for a position for which you've applied as a potential candidate.

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While it seems to drill down specifically enough to differentiate between the non-profit and for-profit sector, I don't always agree with the results for my region. From my 15+ yrs experience, they seem to be pricing certain positions in the non-profit sector a bit lower. Perhaps they need to survey and add more non-profit data.

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There is versatility, it takes into account things that deviate from the normal duties and requirements of a role.

Nachteile

It is not reliable, data doesn't update appropriately, the sytem is slow.

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PayScale showed me where I ranked in terms of salary and benefits among people in my region with similar titles and backgrounds.

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It relies heavily on keyword matching, and people who have similar titles at different companies could be performing vastly different functions. It would be nice if they included some responsibilities in their questionnaire for a sanity check.

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We have 125 jobs in our company and we were able to match all but two with this one system. These two were very niche to our industry and company so we are very pleased with that. The data is very comprehensive and made our salary structure review project very easy.

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Some customization for us to be able to upload specialized job details would be helpful. We may find that other companies in similar industries have jobs that are hard to match.

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The ease, functionality, and over job reviews

Nachteile

Does not allow you to put enough information in regarding the job duties and not enough job titles

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PayScale has helped us build pay ranges throughout our organization. We now feel like we have a deeper understanding of what the pay should be in our different locations.

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Not a con necessarily but we have several jobs that are hard to match up correctly. Our industry is very specific and pays more with certain experience.

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It's in depth reports for every position researched. Payscale more often than not comes back with great salary data based on our local market, with the ability to tweak depending on position, competition, time in role, qualifications, etc. A great all around tool that we depend on for every position. It also gives you the ability to keep track of all your employees and where their salary falls according to the local market.

Nachteile

Some positions, depending on the job title you have chosen, are mismatched. While this doesn't mean your data isn't available or relevant, a little more digging needs to be done to match up your role with the benchmark you want.

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I use it frequently to look at comp banding for our organization. We have found the data to be relevant to our markets.

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There are positions in our industry that we are unable to get accurate data because there is not a comparable position in the database.

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Very detailed reports on compensation and total rewards, easy to read and utilize, good leverage when trying to convince internal stakeholders to rethink compensation strategy, Formulaic settings help stamp out new reports at the click of a button, good customer support and walkthrough

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A bit confusing to toggle between settings if you are a new user, not entirely organized on the dashboard as it displays your most recent reports first

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The MarketPay product is easy to set up, create and pull reports, and manage from and administrator perspective. The UI is pretty basic without any bells and whistles, but the product works well to store compensation data and to report off of it. Ad hoc pricing is great for pulling data for new roles.

Nachteile

The MarketPay platform UI is pretty dated, but I don’t believe that takes away from the product. The Insight Lab platform is terrible for anyone who needs to price more than 50 or so jobs. The amount of manual work that must be done to match each job is ridiculous, and I don’t know why anyone would think the process is acceptable.

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From a user standpoint, the tool is very easy to use - just like a spreadsheet. As the administrator, it meets most of our requirements.

Nachteile

In V3, as the administrator, I feel like I had to go to Curo to make many of the changes, corrections or updates. While they were prompt in doing so, it would be easier if I could do certain things myself.

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Easy to use and set up. The constant save feature has helped a lot of our managers who have had some poor internet connections avoid losing their work. It's highly configurable, and easy for admins to get around normal issues that occur when conducting remuneration reviews e.g. more people being added/moved/changed last minute, managers going on leave unexpectedly etc, all while having a really robust audit system.

Nachteile

The system was mainly really intuitive, the only slight drawback being that the filtering system is slightly clunky to use for first time users. However, you can see the logic in setting things up that way, and it's still very easy to learn so it's not too much of an issue - it's overall extremely easy software to use.

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From gaining confidence in your current job, embarking on a promotion, to looking for a new job... this is an invaluable resource!! Knowing your worth can be liberating and empowering. It can also give you the much-needed boost to get a certification that would significantly increase your worth. The career advice and informative materials on Payscale are a huge bonus to really get a grip on the current employment climate. Things are changing at a rapid pace and even if you start a new job now, chances are high that things will be very different in a few years if you are looking for a new opportunity again.

Nachteile

I was a little weary of having to put my current company's name in my report because I am part of a VERY small team and they would know it is me. I still get good information from the site without having a complete profile.

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Not much right now, as Payscale is consistently a roadblock in getting my work done.

Nachteile

CONSISTENTLY have trouble accessing the payscale site due to system outages. I have currently been locked out of the site for over a week, with only one successful login, which was not at a time my schedule allowed for the deep work of re-benchmarking positions. As someone that works in the SaaS industry, I understand the technical difficulties and have a great deal of patience in these situations. However, Payscale is NEVER reliable and seems that 8 out of 10 times I try to log in, the system is unavailable. The system is easy to navigate when you can get in. But when you can't get in 80% of the time, that just doesn't do you any good.

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-One of the more progressive tools we reviewed
-Intuitive UI and easy for managers to navigate with little / no instruction or guidance
-Managers liked the ability to drill down within the teams to see what allocations are being made
-Easy for administrators to navigate and review the organization
-Implementation team was fantastic to work with and were able to translate all of our needs into the end product
-Flexibility of the tool to add / distribute funding, move budgets / employees, etc. proved to be very easy to do within the tool
-The team delivered on what was promised

Nachteile

No cons thus far with the tool - overall, we have been happy with the end result.

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I think this gives a good idea where a position is valued as a starting point. I think more information is helpful.

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I don't like that the information in totally accurate for all positions nor do I believe that it should be taken as gold. It's a starting point. Not the end all, be all. What is the value of the employee? Not what is everyone else worth to everyone else!

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PayScale helps you determine market rates and is a great help to any HR Department and employee. I find it to be fairly accurate to current marketplace pay rates and it is a trustworthy reflection of the current pay scale. If you need to gather supporting data and information on pay rates, this is a good source.

Nachteile

It can be a little one note, but it is targeted for a specific purpose, so it cannot be faulted for that.

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Their team worked diligently with us on an aggressive go live date. Their staff were very helpful as we worked through issues and found resolutions through UAT instances. It's important that clients thoroughly test their data.

Nachteile

Managers are missing the ability to indicate when they have reviewed certain recommendations. For Sr level management which everything rolls up to, it makes it difficult to pick up where they left off in the process. Something to think about.

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From a reward professional's perspective the product is very customisable, has excellent reporting functionality and fully meets our needs. From an end user perspective it is also easy to use and we have received very good feedback from managers across the business. The support we receive from the vendor is first class - they are very responsive, flexible and really understand our business and our requirements.

Nachteile

Like any product of this nature there are some limitations but these are generally very small and have no impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of our year-end cycle.

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If managers are used to excel, the learning curve in transitioning to Curo is minimal. It's intuitive and straightforward to the end user.

Nachteile

Our setup scenarios can be complex and thus requires a lot of dependence on the Curo staff. Hopefully in the future we will be more indepedent.

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This provides a clear method to collate, accurately record and manage compensation decisions across our business in a simple and effective way, allowing our compensation experts to focus on just that rather than being wholly wrapped up in processes (albeit valuable proceses but not value add).

Curo are a very friendly team and are easy to work with, offering a fast growing and developing software solution.

Nachteile

You will probably find that you need to improve your own processes and your own data before being able to utilise the full functionality - we did and still are!

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There were many things to like about the service and product offered, but to list a few:

1) CuroComp is a simple tool that does exactly what it is supposed to do and it does it very well. There is no superfluous functionality.
2) Having come from a position where the annual pay-review was a very manual, labour intensive process, Curo enabled us to make the transition from spreadsheets to online system easily and quickly (engagement to roll-out was 4 months). Feedback across the organisation has been very positive - including at our Executive Committee level.
3) The team are fantastic. They were always on hand to answer questions and solve any problems.

Nachteile

Whilst the system is in its infancy, there is still room for improvements, but the team are pro-actively seeking to improve the software by asking for client feedback so that future iterations will meet their needs.

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Nothing - could not find one redeeming feature.

Nachteile

Difficult user interface - not intuitive. Not good comps available, so data meaningless

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Very easy to use. They do a great job with onboarding and making sure that you use the product to the fullest.

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I have not had any issues with the product. So far, one year in, I love the tool and use ifor each new hire.

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Intuitive and straightforward to use and can be customized to meet the requirements of your focal point and bonus program.

Nachteile

We were told the software would have a workflow approval functionality when we signed the contract but the development of the functionality was delayed so we never had it in the version we used for 3 years.

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Payscale is a fantastic site because you can use it to see how much you should be earning at your job. Otherwise how else can you find out how much people in your industry are making? I use payscale to figure out how much I should charge for a job and as a finance writer, I use payscale's survey research all the time to help me write articles about all kinds of careers.

Nachteile

I really like that PayScale uses surveys to gather their data because then you know their numbers are the actual salaries of real people across the states. But some of their careers could use more survey data than they have.

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What I like about PayScale is that I can see what my compensation for my job should be. PayScale tells me the average wages for my job position.

Nachteile

There is no least about PayScale software. PayScale tell me what salary should my job be during the interview.

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Payscale is a great tool for benchmarking compensation for an organization, or simply seeing how much you're worth on the market. Payscale has been great to work with when we've sent job descriptions over to benchmark compensation within our industry and has given us great insight on where our pay strategy needs to be.

Nachteile

Benchmarking hasn't been a breeze for all of our positions, but that's mostly because we have some unique, specialized positions.

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The simply system functionality with intuitive features and the customer service attitude of the CuroComp team. The customer service is outstanding. The configuration stage was led by a subject matter expert who knew the system and the compensation function. We often would ask her opinion of what is a best practice and she delivered the advice on target. The customer support person was very responsive and delivered on requests with amazing speed and professionalism. The overall process met our objective by facilitating an organized and effective annual compensation process. Both HR and operations were pleased with the system and process.

Nachteile

No dislikes the service and product fully met expectations.

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We have used it for competitives analysis, analyzing internal salaries, comparing markets, etc - it has been vital to several different areas of our business.

Nachteile

Sometimes the info I need for a specific city won't come up, but that is not all PayScale's fault - I'm sure it's a lot to keep track of that much data or they don't have enough data to support certain smaller areas.

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Super flexible - it's like a giant pivot table. Design your own system. It's also a fantastic value for the money.

Nachteile

V3 didn't have an open API and needed some UI improvements. Those appear to be enhanced in V4 which is now available.

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There are many things that have impressed us about Curo - here are the top three:
- The system itself - it is extremely flexible, simple to use and user-friendly.
- The implementation process - we were guided by Curo throughout the project and they did a fantastic job making it as stress-free as possible
- The service - customer service at its finest! Every question we asked had a positive response, nothing was too much trouble and even when things changed after the system was built it was never an issue to make amendments. The team at Curo are approachable, friendly and extremely knowledgeable, not only about the system but also about running compensation/remuneration reviews in practice.

Nachteile

There is nothing specific that we disliked about the product or vendor, in fact we were impressed by how flexible the system was and the team at Curo were always willing to implement our suggestions for improvement where ever practicable.

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The flexibility of the software allowed us to perform a complex annual review with relative ease. The support of the Curo team was first rate.

Nachteile

The software can be slow with complicated reviews. There is a need to imporve their servers.

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This is the best compensation system that I have used. It's user friendly and easy to use. I have not heard any complaints from the users (budget managers) and that's a good sign.

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I can't think of any at this moment since the system does what I expected and more.

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There are some built-in job descriptions, but few were relevant to our business.

Nachteile

The data is not current and accurate! We had pay ranges reported that were below minimum wage!

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I love the real-time market data in how much a profession pays and in what market depending on education, experience, etc. I also like the customer service, very helpful in negotiations and even with offering alternative perks to pay for a position.

Nachteile

The three year contract that locks you in is kind of a downside. I truly needed a tool to reference quickly with the limited staff size I have right now so all in all good stuff.

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Powerful insights into compensation. A great tool for organizations who are developing a structured, data driven approach to compensation planning for the first time.

Nachteile

The company (finally) announced an integration with our HRIS (ADP WFN) and it took months to get it right. This didn't surprise me a whole lot, but it was pretty convoluted and messy.

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I have no 'pros' to write for this product

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Not intuitive, no comparable data, customer service is not helpful

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A flexible and intuitive tool that was really well received by users across the business.

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There are things we would do differently in the way we implemented the review but these were largely internal issues and feedback on the system was generally very good.