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    LaserBeam Software Compass

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ALaserBeam Software offers their flagship compensation management platform Compass, supporting HR teams with compensation analytics, budgeting and forecasting, and administration of merit pay, bonuses, promotions or adjustments, and other wage related changes and management.N/A

    PayScale Payfactors

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/APayfactors, now part of PayScale, provides three data sources to help organizations quickly respond to a changing talent market and the technology for organizations of all sizes to create more equitable and transparent pay practices.N/A
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    LaserBeam Software
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    PayScale, Inc.
    With their multiple compensation databases and the ability to quickly navigate and explore market matches, I can trust that the data is accurate and up-to-date and that I can confidently stand behind my recommendations after doing my in-the-box Payfactors work. PayScale is a company that continues to grow and develop by leaps and bounds , so getting onboard with them now is still essentially the ground floor of something incredible.
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    PayScale, Inc.
    • Real-time market data for the most up-to-date pay bands and ranges
    • Robust internal organizational tools to manage multiple projects and collections of roles
    • Quick Price tool can get a comprehensive compensation pick for a role within seconds.
    • Internal help documents, message board communities, and live help agents are there if you need them
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    PayScale, Inc.
    • I am not seeing an easy way to produce or export compensation summaries for multiple roles at once. I have to pull up multiple at once.
    • The ERD and HRMA reports are in totally different formats and they don't have the same parameters to fine-tune matches.
    • To be honest, I look forward to exploring more built-in features in 2024. It is a great program!
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    PayScale, Inc.
    I continue to use both CompAnalyst and Payfactors simultaneously and they both have many pros and few cons. PayScale seems to have more advanced capabilities and has more robust user-provided tweaking and cutting-edge features. The access to multiple databases is also a major benefit. While the look and feel of Payfactors seems more "21st century" than CompAnalyst, I have to say that CompAnalyst has some very intuitive features, like the ability to select many matches, add them to a list, and then export the lot of them in a single Excel file, that I do enjoy and that I don't believe Payfactors can match. That would be one drawback, however this doesn't really affect the end results, which are incredible, it just changes the path to get there a little bit.
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    PayScale, Inc.
    • Increased capacity to provide accurate and robust compensation analyses
    • Ability to compare and contrast compensation schema between Payfactors and other databases.
    • Access to an enormous database of help documents and lux pdfs regarding pay philosophies, compensation concepts, market developments, etc. Educational resources are phenomenal.
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