Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)

Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) is a comprehensive, AI-powered compensation management platform designed to help organizations make confident, data-driven pay decisions by centralizing salary benchmarking, market data analysis, and compensation planning in a single scalable solution. The platform enables HR and compensation professionals to price any job against current market data, build and maintain salary structures, manage pay grades and ranges, and monitor pay equity — all while consolidating compensation survey management to maximize the return on survey investments. Key capabilities include an intelligent job matching engine that uses AI to align internal roles to market benchmarks based on job duties rather than titles alone, a Job Description Management (JDM) module, dynamic market insights through an intuitive data exploration interface, and integrations with leading HRIS and payroll platforms such as Workday, ADP Workforce Now, UKG Pro, and Paylocity. The solution is best suited for mid-market to enterprise organizations across industries including healthcare, financial services, retail, and manufacturing, and is particularly valuable for compensation managers, HR analysts, and total rewards professionals who need to replace manual, spreadsheet-driven processes with a more consistent and defensible approach to pay. By bringing together crowdsourced peer data, third-party survey sources, and internal compensation data in one place, Payscale Ascent helps teams reduce the time spent gathering and validating market data, eliminate potential bias from compensation decisions, and build greater organizational confidence in their pay practices.