Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)

Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) is a specialized enterprise compensation management platform built to help HR and compensation professionals streamline market pricing, salary benchmarking, and pay structure design all within a single, consolidated system. The platform consolidates multiple salary survey sources in one place and automates survey participation through partnerships with leading providers, dramatically reducing what would otherwise be months of manual effort to just days. With AI-powered job matching capabilities, users can input job descriptions and receive intelligent benchmark recommendations, while bulk market pricing rules, limitless pay structure modeling, and merit matrix generation give compensation teams the analytical firepower to build and test strategies with confidence. Robust reporting tools, employee data uploads, multi-user auditing, and integrations with systems like Workday HCM, Deltek Costpoint, and JDXpert make it a practical fit within larger HR tech ecosystems. Payscale Ascent is best suited for mid-market to enterprise organizations — particularly in healthcare, higher education, information technology, and utilities — where compensation teams manage large, complex job architectures and need reliable, accurate market data to stay competitive and compliant with evolving pay legislation. Backed by a dedicated customer success team and the Payscale Collective community for ongoing peer engagement and education, it serves as both a day-to-day operational tool and a long-term strategic resource for compensation professionals looking to move beyond spreadsheets.