Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review If you don't have a workflow management tool in place and are relying on email or shared documents, then I would recommend using Welcome to keep tasks moving and employees accountable. It's very flexible, so you can really drill down on what you're asking from users and it consolidates the tasks that you need to work on in one place. We don't use it for legal documents due to more specific requirements that those require, but, for most other collaborative work, it is used.
Read full review Pros 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 Read full review I can see an overview of all my assigned tasks and if I need to take action now or in the future. The history tab gives a detailed overview of all action taken by everyone so far. You can really break tasks down into clear, specific steps leaving no room for guesswork or confusion. Read full review Cons 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! Read full review For some tasks that don't require an article, we are forced to create one or the task doesn't function. When changes are tracked in Word docs they are not apparent until the file is downloaded meaning that if people are only previewing content, they will miss these changes/comments. Having 2 separate places to comment can be confusing and hiding resolved comments can mean less transparency in the process. Read full review Alternatives Considered 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.
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review Employees can be resistant to using Welcome at first as they think it will add to their workload, but they, eventually, see the benefits of saving time and gaining efficiency. If one person is responsible for entering all tasks, it can be a fair bit of admin time for that person. We have a better working relationship with external agencies that also use Welcome to collaborate with us. Read full review ScreenShots