Payscale launches global dataset for EU Pay Transparency. Pulse+ strengthens foundation for global pay strategies grounded in country-specific real market dynamics February 11, 2026 Payscale, the leading provider of compensation intelligence solutions, today announced the addition of Pulse+, a new data offering that combines Payscale's employer-sourced data, Peer, with validated external market insights to deliver fresh, consistent, and trusted international compensation intelligence across key markets. As the deadline to comply with the European Union Pay Transparency Directive (EUPTD) nears, global organizations operating in the EU are preparing to meet its transparency and reporting requirements. Key mandates include salary range disclosure for job seekers, the right for employees to request pay data, and mandatory gender pay gap reporting for companies with more than 100 employees. More transparent compensation strategies require accurate, relevant data, enabling employers to defend their pay decisions. Pulse+ aims to meet this need. Payscale's proprietary Peer dataset is the foundation for the Pulse+ data offering. Peer is the largest and most accurate HRIS-based dataset in the market, with more than 3,600 participating organizations and 9 million incumbents across 55 countries. Similar to traditional compensation surveys, the employer-sourced data is standardized and consistently refreshed. The Pulse+ datasets augment and validate this data with additional localized market insights. "Too many organizations are making high-stakes pay decisions using tools that weren't built for global complexity," said Payscale's Chief Product Officer Peh Teh. "In hundreds of conversations with HR and compensation leaders, one reality kept surfacing: current data falls short of what global pay decisions actually require. Pulse+ was built to replace patchwork data with clarity - so organizations can make strategic compensation decisions with confidence." Payscale is rapidly expanding Pulse+ to meet the needs of multinational organizations - especially those preparing for the pending EUPTD. Pulse+ offers bespoke datasets per country, tailored to the unique market dynamics, regulations, and pay patterns of the specific region. Designed to support global job structure design, range alignment, and policy decisions, Pulse+ also harmonizes the data across countries so global compensation teams can compare pay insights across regions more consistently. The UK dataset is available now, with datasets for Mexico, Germany, and Australia expected to launch in Q2. Additional countries will be added later this year. Pulse+ is available in both Payscale's enterprise-level compensation management solution, Marketpay, and scalable compensation management solution, Payfactors. Explore HRtech for the Latest HR Articles and Trends in Human Resources Technology

Payscale redefines compensation intelligence with innovative AI solutions that transform job pricing and prove ROI. Two new solutions empower organizations to price jobs faster, make data-driven pay decisions with confidence, and demonstrate the measurable value of compensation investments BOSTON, Nov. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Payscale, the leading provider of compensation intelligence solutions, today announced two new solutions available within its foundational benchmarking solution, Payfactors. Smart Price is a smarter, faster, and more reliable way to price jobs using trusted, agentic AI. Payscale Compass helps executives link compensation strategy to business outcomes. Smart Price - a smarter way to price jobs with trusted agentic AI Payscale's Compensation Best Practices Report showed that along with increasing pay transparency, improved confidence in market pricing was one of the most important compensation activities planned for 2025. It is believed to be essential to attracting and retaining talent. Smart Price is a smarter way to price jobs using intuitive workflows and actionable insights. Powered by Payscale Verse, a proprietary dataset combining verified HR-reported compensation data with machine-learning models, Smart Price delivers transparent, defensible recommendations for every role. "Smart Price isn't about replacing expertise. It's about amplifying it," Payscale Chief Product Officer Peh Teh said. "Whether you're a tenured compensation professional or an HR leader juggling performance, development, and compensation, Smart Price helps you spend less time pricing so you can spend more time emphasizing the value of compensation." More than automation, Smart Price's agentic AI walks users through four simple steps: * Defining jobs and pay markets * Benchmarking AI job matches that can be reviewed and adjusted * Aligning and viewing the impact on employees * Publishing and reviewing final changes before pricing goes live Payscale Compass - an innovative approach to prove the impact of pay The most recent Sapient Insights Group Annual HR Systems Survey shows that 52% of HR professionals say they're viewed as strategic collaborators. While this is higher than previous years, HR leaders continue to strive to improve their influence on business strategy. Payscale's Compass is a first-of-its-kind executive intelligence solution that translates compensation data into business insights. It enables HR and finance leaders to evaluate the effectiveness of their pay strategy, compare performance to peers, and understand how compensation decisions influence organizational outcomes. Bringing together all of a customer's existing data stored in Payscale, Compass displays a scorecard that allows executives and compensation professionals to quickly diagnose the health of their workforce investments and identify where to make adjustments to remain competitive. This is represented in four directional indicators comparing how a user's organization is performing compared to similar organizations, including investment, competitiveness, health, and architecture. * Investment: Evaluates how much is being spent on pay to align compensation budget to market * Competitiveness: Compares what employees earn to peers at similar organizations to reveal how attractive your pay is in today's job market * Health: Looks at how a workforce is growing, retaining talent, and evolving to support long-term business goals * Architecture: Assesses how employees are placed within pay ranges to reveal risks, gaps, and misalignment in structure and levels Compass translates compensation strategy into the language of executive leaders to show why compensation strategy matters and connects compensation to business outcomes. This unique offering to Payscale shifts the conversation from pricing jobs to prove the impact of pay on business performance to emphasizing the strategic value of compensation. "Both Smart Price and Compass are steps in Payscale's journey to make compensation intelligence accessible to everyone, not just compensation pros and to communicate the outcomes of compensation in a language leadership understands," Teh said. "These innovations lay the groundwork for what's next - using AI to deliver pricing intelligence at scale, automatically surfacing high-quality job matches across entire catalogs to make pay decisions faster, fairer, and more consistent." Learn more about Payscale's comprehensive, intelligent solutions: https://www.payscale.com/products About Payscale Payscale is the original compensation innovator for organizations who want to scale their business with pay and transform their largest investment into their greatest advantage. With decades of innovation in sourcing reputable data and developing AI-powered tools, Payscale delivers actionable insights that turn pay from a cost to a catalyst. Its suite of solutions - Payfactors, Marketpay, and Paycycle - empower 65% of the top companies in the U.S. and businesses like Panasonic, ZoomInfo, Chipotle, Quest Diagnostics, University of Washington, American Airlines, and TJX Companies.