--- title: Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) Reviews meta_title: 'Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 274 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 274 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Talent Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/talent-management --- # Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) Reviews **Vendor:** Payscale **Category:** [Compensation Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/compensation-management) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 274 ## About Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) Marketpay is a specialized compensation platform designed to streamline diverse processes and enhance efficiency, giving compensation teams more time to grow their expertise on evolving pay legislation and compensation best practices. \* Automated survey management and participation: Access your purchased data sources in one consolidated platform and leverage our partnerships with leading survey providers to automate your survey participation experience. \* Configurable compensation technology to help you strategize for the future and execute across markets: Generate limitless structure and merit matrix models to optimize your compensation strategy, implement market pricing matches in bulk based on custom rules, and analyze your data using tailored reports. \* Committed customer service team: Get support when you need it from our experienced services team to help with custom analytics, benchmarking, and more. You can also engage with other comp pros and access educational resources 24/7 through Payscale Collective. ## Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users enjoy the **ease of use** of Payscale Ascent for its streamlined access to market salary data. (75 reviews) - Users find the **Market Data** feature of Payscale Ascent powerful and useful when properly set up and maintained. (35 reviews) - Users value the **seamless data management** capabilities of Payscale Ascent, facilitating efficient compensation analysis and updates. (32 reviews) - Users praise the **market competitiveness** of Payscale Ascent for its innovative features and strong support, enhancing compensation analysis. (31 reviews) - Users commend the **excellent customer support** of Payscale Ascent, appreciating the timely assistance and enhanced service options. (29 reviews) - Users appreciate the **intuitive and user-friendly features** of MarketPay, enabling customized and efficient market pricing management. (23 reviews) - Flexibility (21 reviews) - Users commend the **impeccable customer service** of Marketpay, praising its straightforward usability and valuable market insights. (20 reviews) - Data Accuracy (19 reviews) - Reporting (19 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **inadequate reporting** options limiting and cumbersome, hindering efficient data access and management. (20 reviews) - Users find the **poor reporting features** of Payscale Ascent frustrating, often requiring extra training and assistance for effective use. (18 reviews) - Users find the **limited customization** of report formats frustrating, hindering efficient data manipulation and editing. (16 reviews) - Users find the **reporting options limited** , making it challenging to choose the most effective report out of many. (15 reviews) - Users feel the **learning curve is steep** for Payscale Ascent, requiring additional time and training to navigate effectively. (13 reviews) - Users find Marketpay's system **difficult to learn** , as it lacks intuitiveness and presents challenges with complex reports. (12 reviews) - Users find the system **not intuitive** , struggling to navigate and utilize advanced features effectively. (12 reviews) - Users find the **interface design poor** , feeling it's outdated and not user-friendly, complicating their experience. (12 reviews) - Users find Marketpay to be **not user-friendly** , facing difficulties with resolution of issues and complex features. (11 reviews) - Poor Usability (11 reviews) ## Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) Reviews ### 1. Ease of use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Easy navigation and good support. Can depend on it. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I need more automation, but I haven't checked out the newest features. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Market pricing jobs ### 2. Great product with really easy to use features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Ease of use and ability to find exactly what I am looking for when I log in. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** When using AI to generate matches it would be most helpful to be able to filter by level- eg.- Entry, Intermediate, Manager, hourly, etc. instead of having to look through all matches generated. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Market Pricing our jobs effectively and not having to provide explanations to our Management about market data, because the reports available provide the explanation in writing so they can see the actual worth of their jobs not what they or Glassdoor say its worth. ### 3. Efficient and comprehensive tool with great value **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anita B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Reports that allow you to better under the workforce as market **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Some people use legacy which is frustrating. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its allowing us to compile and analyze market ### 4. Comprehensive Compensation Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** The numerous reporting tools and informative training webinars help break down the site -- from market pricing, survey participation, customizing reports, etc. These reports have been helpful in following up on trends and preparing our senior leadership for budget impacts. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** It's overwhelming at first given all of the information the site provides! **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently, we're reviewing equity issues with the market, given different variables. The reporting features have been extremely useful in getting detailed information per job area. And, the ease of these reports is useful in staying on top of issues so they don't become major concerns. **Official Response from Zach Torrey:** > Thank you for taking the time to give us a review! We're thrilled you're enjoying MarketPay's reporting capabilities. Your feedback is greatly appreciated! ### 5. Seamless Market Pricing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Information is fully integrated with your job descriptions and incumbent data. Allows for quick matching and ability to update the data based on market cuts and confidence levels. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I am still a little unclear as to what the surveys are behind Marketpay. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are not currently a client but in talks with a sales consultant for future implementation. ### 6. Organizes our mass of data into an easily usable interface. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan E. | Compensation Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Market pay allows our department to collaborate on our analysis and establishes a centralization of data. Training and using the software well is very easy with time. The customer support is always responsive and helpful. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Reporting can be a bit of a challenge. It would be nice if all reportable data was listed when creating a report, but there are some fields only available for certain report types. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organization and centralization of market data/ reporting. ### 7. MarketPay is a great tool for aggregating survey data and market pricing the jobs in our catalog. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** It is a great way to keep our market pricing organized. It is very user friendly, and has great features. It does also integrate very well with our HRIS (Workday). We use MarketPay on a daily basis. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I can't think of anything in particular that I dislike. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping our market pricing organized, and easy to price new jobs. ### 8. helpful tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I like that uploading our jobs is simple **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** There's nothing I dont like - it's a great tool as an admin. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** it helps us know what our jobs are being paid in other companies. ### 9. 30 years of compensation Analyst/Lead/Manager **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** easy to use for basic market data and leveling **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** difficult to get into all of the sub applications for getting industry specific data or running reports/analyses **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** providing market data for validation of pay ### 10. Sr Advisor - Compensation and Data Analyst **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Ease of use, evolving with the times (i.e. AI Matching) **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** When there is a message in MarketPay and I click the Payscale link within the message, it asks me to log in. I cannot remember the password for Payscale. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** AI Matching has been a help. ### 11. Solid choice **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** helpful in market matching, easy to use, and a hub for all things compensation. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** minimal trainings on new marketpay format **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** housing all market data ### 12. It is an ok tool. Does what it should do, but does not "wow". **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** For the most part, it is user-friendly. It capably stores external salary survey data and internal employee/job/pay grade structure data. Keeps things organized, saves market pricing for your jobs and preserves history. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** It feels "old school". The technology behind this product doesn't seem to have had any significant upgrades in several years. When MarketPay merged with PayFactors, I thought we would see some real synergy between what they had been developing and what MarketPay already had. But they still seem to be two separate products. Maybe I'm expecting too much, but with all the advancements in AI being hyped in every industry, I thought there might be some better tools available in compensation to assist with market pricing or basic analysis. The report library in MarketPay leaves a lot to be desired (and the report library is also one area that is not very user-friendly). The price keeps going up, but the tool is largely the same as it was about 5 years ago. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** MarketPay gives us a stable platform to store our salary survey data and market matches. Prior to MarketPay, we had no tool to house and organize these things. ### 13. Great product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amber S. | Total Rewards Leader, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Useful and continuous improvement. Love that AI Is becoming more integrated. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Converting the JDs into our HRM system was a little painful. But the team helped figure it out. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping us consistent ### 14. MarketPay Best uses **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephanie R. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Pricing tool, reports, customer service fast reply. Easy to use **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I havent found anything to dislike about it **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compiles all survey data and easy to filter out data points needed ### 15. Some positives but definitely room for improvement **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Easy to manage all job and pricing data within one platform, even despite operating in many countries and multiple currencies. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** We struggle with how they really help when it comes to survey participation, feel this was oversold when trying to obtain our business. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Help with pay equity since we had never really done a review before, however for that specifically felt that it was hard to get support people to explain the usage in a way that made sense and was quantifiable. A lot of big words and superfluous words used but felt they couldn't really define them other than to say "you're doing great and pay equity isn't an issue for your organization". Also made it really easy to create salary structures which had previously been done in spreadsheets far more complicated than they needed to be. Easy to modify and try multiple iterations with just a few clicks. ### 16. Long-Time User **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Clare V. | Asst Director, University Compensation, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Puts all of our market data and employee data into one place. Very simple survey submission once all jobs are matched. AI for matching has been a great add. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Some reports are difficult to assimilate to. We have customized fields that make the reports a bit cumbersome. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Internal equity comparisons and external market comparatios. **Official Response from Anna Spessard:** > Hi Clare, thank you for your review of MarketPay! ### 17. Quick and easy decisions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zack D. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Quick access to data to help make a decision **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Sometimes hard to find benchmarks when there are no specific market matches and data **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing comp summaries ### 18. Easy to use platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** William D. | Senior Manager, Compensation, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** The organization it provides for our market survey data. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** The upload files can be confusing. Seems to be time consuming to update the platform. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can price jobs quickly and accurately. Has really cut down on our process times. ### 19. Great Comp tool! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Easy to use, built for compensation professionals, great survey data aggregator! **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Hard to use Modeling features. Not intuitive. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data aggregator, market pricing database, survey submissions ### 20. Market Pay Is Very User Friendly and Has a Great Education Platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Benita C. | Compensation Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I like MarketPay because it holds our employee information, which makes it easy to do quick analyses. It also has the ability to load pertinent data for salary surveys, which would help to complete them much more quickly. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Sometimes their reporting tools don't really work **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Marketpay works well for compression gap reviews. It is very helpful that their dashboards are very customizable, and it helps to have multiple different views that can be held personally or shared with team members. ### 21. Great product to assist compensation professionals with day-to-day benchmarking. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrea M. | Manager Compensation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Pretty easy to use and easy to work with from a vendor perspective. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** That you can't customize or reorder the matches. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping us manage Compensation. The reporting feature and the ability to create custom reports is most helpful. ### 22. It’s been great having all our data in one place. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** The customization of how we view the tool and the data. How simple it is to maintain the data and export insights. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** The UX is a little outdated. Otherwise nothing. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves pay to market for our varied business models. ### 23. MarketPay **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepa S. | Global Market Intelligence Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I find the MarketPay tool to be quite intuitive, user-friendly and easy to navigate. Apart from pricing, there are so many useful features - such as survey participation & management, reporting and much more. The best thing is we can customize views the way we want it - keep it as granular as I may like or as broad as possible (say, at a 1000 ft level :-)). **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** The tableau reports cannot be easily customized at our end. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It enables us to compare all of our data with market benchmarks in a single platform. The reporting feature is going to be really useful going forward for all kind of analysis that we do on excel today. ### 24. Great experience with MarketPay **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Having all of our market matches in 1 place **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** It is not overly user friendly currently but I understand that advancements are coming. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is allowing us to keep all of our matches in one place and allows us to quickly and easily market match jobs. ### 25. Very useful, yet problematic **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** How easy it is to do the pricing using "Market Price a Job" **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** How often there are isues that aiether are hard to resolve, take a lot of time to resolve or seem not having any resolution. It also does not work properly in the most crutial moments. Additionally visual report builder is yet simple for benginner users, but when trying to byild something more advanced - it is very disturbing (writing simply a code would be much appreciated). **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benchmarking internal roles is easy and fast. ### 26. best comp system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** all data is together making it very convient to use **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** The 48 hour load time is long. I'd like to see that shorten to 24 hours **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** With all the data in one place, it is very easy to get the question you are trying to answer. ### 27. It is what you make of it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amee G. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** The MarketPay tool is what you make of it. It can be very powerful and useful tool if you take the time to update and setup data. Its relatively intuitive and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** It can take a lot of time to ensure data is up to date and setting up reports. It would be nice to change some of the field names to accomodate our structure. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives us one place to store our market data and benchmarks. It also allows us to create reports off of that data. ### 28. Customer Service **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maha R. | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** With MarketPay, you can price jobs correctly, provide accurate data to executives quickly, and evaluate pay strategies so your organization can attract and retain top talent. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Finding relevant data: It can be difficult to find reliable and relevant market data **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** For decentralized compensation teams planning for the future, MarketPay is a compensation platform that delivers: - Automated survey management and participation - Versatile compensation technology that helps strategize for the future and execute across markets - Committed customer experience ### 29. MarketPay Experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victoria P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** MarketPay has been a very useful tool to use as our company is undergoing a lot of change and growth. We are able to attract and retain people by making sure that our job offers are market competitve. The report library is filled with great reports and visuals that we use for analysis and compensation decisions. Furthermore, our client success managers have been very supportive with any questions or changes we want to make to our account. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** We are in the process of changing our matching methodology and there is no easy/automated way to do this in MarkeyPay. So we have been loading manual spreadsheets into MarketPay. Our client success manager said that they are working on an automated way to do this in the future, so we are looking forward to that. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** MarketPay is helping us ensure that we are paying our internal employees and prosepctice hires competitive to market. Furthermore, it is helpful for the Total Rewards Regional leads and HR Business Partners to understand employees' relative position to market so that they can help managers make informed compensation decisions. ### 30. ok, but a bit outdated layout and issues appear that make pricing really difficult **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** possibilities to create own reports and charts **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** bugs, issues, errors like: not being able to open more than 3 job codes at once, menu with "Other search options" getting stuck and not being able to hide this **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't know ### 31. Great tool for survey management & reporting! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Marketpay has been a lifesaver in our compensation survey management space. It is so easy to review our jobs data in one place versus using several spreadsheets. It is relatively easy to use and maintain. Implementing the tool was very simple and updating year over year is done with ease. It also integrates with our HRIS for our employee and job data to flow in weekly. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** The reporting module is complex with many options to choose from for base reports. You really need to understand what the reports consist of before using them to ensure you understand the visualizations. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Marketpay helps us to submit accurate salary data and understand how our jobs are priced all in one tool without a million spreadsheets ### 32. Compensation Analyst **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** The ability to store our company's compensation data on a large scale and efficiency in data modeling and market pricing. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** The synchronization of the utilization of the tool to its full capacity. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Market pricing our roles against the current market. This feature is helping our company to maintain a competitive pay strategy. ### 33. Prefer the old way to market price a job, so I don't use the market price a job new. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Large amount of data arranged in easy to use ways. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Market price a job new is still lacking some basic features of the old version that prefer, so I don't use the New. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Determining competitive pay rates to attract and retain staff ### 34. Big fan, and still learning... **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Chemicals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I have used MarketPay for the last 7 years across 2 employers, and it has been immeasurably valuable at both. MP aided in major projects like laying the foundation for job architecture and pay transparency efforts. MP as a pricing database makes many annual processes much more efficient, such as assessing market movement for a job or job family year-over-year, determining new salary ranges for the year, and salary survey participation. The support team is also great to work with in completing the "data migrations" from previous years' data to the most up-to-date data. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Like any tool, MarketPay does take some time to get used to, but the amount of information available can be overwhelming. Some of the HRIS data load templates are overly complex (when they only have a few "required" fields), and some of the standard reports feel redundant (and over-engineered in some cases). **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** MarketPay allows for a consistent pricing approach by housing all salary survey information and maintaining each job's market pricing. It allows for well-informed market analysis, and we can clearly communicate our market pricing strategy to HR partners, leaders, and frontline employees. The database also makes it easy to "experiment" with pricing in dynamic markets. ### 35. Payscale's MarketPay Tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marina Z. | Senior Compensation Partner, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Great analytical tool, solid reporting capabilities. Ability to integrate and sort as needed different sources is valuable. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Not all sources can be integrated automatically, some require more manual work. Often wish for more customer support - current structure with Customer Support Manager is not efficient for problem resolution. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Robust compensation planning and analysis tools allow us to analyse our current state globally and plan strategically for the future ### 36. good product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** The data is all in one place and it is easy to adjust the data. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I work for a company that does not do merit increases so there is not alot of support for other types of modeliing. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** increase in effency ### 37. One Place to Store All Your Survey Data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maureen M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I like that it is one place to store all of your survey data, and that it's easy to have the information uploaded. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Lately, I've been having a lot of technical errors with the system not working. Aside from that, I sometimes feel it is limiting. For example, I would like to be able to add in advertised rates, competitor rates, etc., to keep all of this information together, along with our survey data. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It stores all of our compensation survey data in once place and allows us to easily match the survey data up to our jobs. ### 38. Rewards Consultant **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2025 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Ease of use and customizable reports with application. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** No direct account manager that can answer questions quickly **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analytic reports ### 39. MarketPay is a very useful tool to market pricing jobs in a simple and intuitive way. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** All the functionalities that help to accurately manage salary survey data year over year. Additionally, the customer services is great and timely. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I haven't had any issues with MarketPay in the last 2 yeas I've worked with it, so I don't have any comments for this question. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** MarkePay allows me to market pricing new positions, keeping internal pay equity and competitiveness against market. It's fast and easy to use, so I can be more efficient in my Compensation job. ### 40. Great for large orgs with multiple surveys **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Great survey management tool with lots of reporting options and the ability to modify/create ad hoc reports. They have partnerships with all major survey providers, as well as the ability to upload unique surveys. Lots of webinars & online trainings, as well as responsive account managers & customer support. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** While they are updating their platform, some of the graphics seem dated. There are "new" sections that are refresed, but they have not retired the old sections, so some users keep gravitating to the old version **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** MarketPay easily helps our org manage 10+ survey providers, making it easy to see pricing matches and historical changes in pay. It can also be used for merit budget planning, salary structure management & modeling. ### 41. Senior Compensation Analyst **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I use Marketpay every day in my job, updating market matches **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** The search function in the market pricing is not the most effiecient. It does not sort by relevancy, or matching the search items **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** How are we staying competitive in the steel industry backed by data ### 42. Great Product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Maritime | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** The ease of use is great. Anytime I've had a support issue, its been very easy to work with customer support. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Nothing that I can really think of for the system **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making sure that we are being competitive with our office employees compensation. ### 43. Market Pay is a great investment! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I love that there are so many different markets to consider as we have remote employees in different states. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I wish there were more job titles so we did not have to work so hard to draw the comparison. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping us when poeple ask for a salary review and is helping us budget our labor expenses. ### 44. Good, Reliable, Easy to use MarketPay **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** MarketPay customer support team is super great to work with! **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Survey season can be difficult due to the different requirements with each survey provider. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ensuring that our pay is remaining competitive in the marketplace. ### 45. Marketpay review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Very robust yet easy to use. Even if using minimal features of the system, it has a tremendous value add. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Some challenges with converting part-time salary info, but still easy to workaround. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consolidated survey management and market pricing features makes new benchmarking much easier. Consolidated job description repository to easily find job documentation for existing jobs. ### 46. Great platform and easy to use! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** How easy it is for survey participation. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Sometimes it seems difficult to search for data. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy participation for surveys. ### 47. User for several years now **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bridget D. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** MarketPay makes collecting market data for pay so much easier. It has reduced the number of hours our team has had to spend verifying data and salary survey results. Previously, we spent hours and hours organizing and maintaining all of our salary survey submission and results, and now most of it is managed through MarketPay. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** There are honestly no negative things to say from my experience with MarketPay. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** All of our results are in one spot, nothing falls through the cracks. Our market research and job pricing are something we can firmly stand behind with the expertise and trust we have through MarketPay. ### 48. Proficient user, uses MarketPay weekly. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pam G. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I love that our own data can be uploaded so we can easily see if there are any employees in a job we are reviewing market data on. Also love that we can create an ADHOC job while working on a range for a new job. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** When working in Market Price a Job (NEW), would like to see company job summary in screen after selecting job and our salary range. Would like to be able to also see more than one job in the Market Price a Job (NEW). When in the (NEW) and searching market data and select the next screen would like it to automatically start at the top. Right now you have to scroll back to the top for each page you go to. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ensuring that our salary ranges are inline with industry. **Official Response from Brooke Grimes:** > We are so happy to hear that the Report Library and Salary Ranges are helpful for you. Thank you for taking the time to share this feedback. I am passing along the feedback about Price a Job to our Product Management team as they think about future development. Thank you for your continued support! ### 49. Great **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Allison S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** I appreciate how user friendly it is and also the survey help it provides. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** Wish it was a little more detailed sometimes. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Market rates for our roles and survey help. ### 50. Senior Total Rewards Advisor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alisa W. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** The fact that MarketPay holds all of our survey results and updates the data each year is an incredible time saver to our team. We also love the various filters available in the system so that we can dig deep into the data for specific regional cuts. Additionally, the reports available through MarketPay which allow us to cost out projections and run various scenarios based on market data. **What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay)?** We would love to have a bit more detail on each job match. For example, can we more easily find/review the educational requirements for each job. **What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) solving and how is that benefiting you?** MarketPay allows us to ensure we have equity within job families. For example, when we add levels to various job families we are able slot jobs as needed to ensure jobs within the same family are benched together. ## Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) Discussions - [What is the best way to utilize rule based pricing or job matching if you organization follows a matching metrics depending on the number of survey used for a country?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/31188-what-is-the-best-way-to-utilize-rule-based-pricing-or-job-matching-if-you-organization-follows-a-matching-metrics-depending-on-the-number-of-survey-used-for-a-country) - 2 comments, 2 upvotes - [Can you build structures from scratch? If so, how easy is this?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/building-structures) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Can you build merit increase models? If so, how easy is this?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/merit-increase-models) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How does reporting look? Can I allow my team to access and edit them?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/6463-creating-and-viewing-reports) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Is there training provided with the product?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/training-0d354347-b266-4a24-9a42-73f5567a90a8) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/payscale-ascent-formerly-marketpay/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-07+11%3A12%3A37+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=43b6debb-33d0-452b-8970-f2537c03956a&secure%5Btoken%5D=cebc713f8af2278f8d9cc82521676ff2c62a1e5b6676422c85edbeb7b81b1ccb&format=llm_user) ## Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) Integrations - [Deltek Costpoint](https://www.g2.com/products/deltek-costpoint/reviews) - [JDXpert](https://www.g2.com/products/jdxpert/reviews) - [Workday HCM](https://www.g2.com/products/workday-hcm/reviews) ## Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) Features **Basics** - Interoperability - Performance - Reporting - Ad hoc Reporting **Platform** - Reward Structuring - Event Management - Workflow Automation - Compensation History - Automated Compliance - Performance Management Integration - Embedded Analytics - Reporting Capabilities - Compensation Data Management - Internationalization - Bonus Management - Real-Time Data - Reporting/Analytics - Benefits Management - Commission Management - Incentive Management - Payroll Management - Budget Management - Workflow Management - Compliance Management - Performance Management - Document Management - Employee Management **Basic Features** - High level regression analysis - Dashboard **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization - Generative AI **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Core Features - Salary Benchmarking Software** - Dashboard - Industry Benchmarking - Hierarchy - Activity Dashboard **Platform - Compensation Planning** - Compensation Budgeting - Merit Cycle Planning - Pay Transparency - Automated Compliance - Reward Structuring - Compensation History - Succession Planning - Salary Planning **Additional Functionality** - Onboarding - Individual Development Plans - Career Development - Approval Process Control - Customizable Branding - AI Copilot - Reminders - Customizable Templates - Employee Profiles - Employee Engagement - Learning & Development - API **Content** - Automation - Content Creation - Distribution Features **Risk Mitigation** - Budgeting - Legislation - Regression analysis - Reporting **Benchmarking and Equity - Compensation Management** - Benchmarking Data - Pay Equity - Salary Bands **Auditing - Salary Benchmarking Software** - Reporting - Accuracy **Additional Features - Compensation Planning** - Reporting Capabilities - Workflow Automation - Integrations **Additional Functionality** - Approval Process Control - Duplicate Detection - AI Copilot - Customizable Reports - Role-Based Permissions - Employee Onboarding - Alerts/Notifications - Data Import/Export - Reminders - Customizable Templates - Compensation Statements - Goal Setting/Tracking - Automated Receipt Matching - Organizational Charting - Market Data Analysis - Employee Reward Programs - Employee Portal - Compensation Plan Modeling - Employee Database - Audit Trail **Additional Functionality** - Approval Process Control - Duplicate Detection - AI Copilot - Customizable Reports - Role-Based Permissions - Employee Onboarding - Alerts/Notifications - Data Import/Export - Reminders - Customizable Templates - Compensation Statements - Goal Setting/Tracking - Automated Receipt Matching - Organizational Charting - Market Data Analysis - Employee Reward Programs - Employee Portal - Compensation Plan Modeling - Employee Database - Audit Trail **Logistics** - User, Role and Access Management **Analytics** - Retention **Advanced Features - Salary Benchmarking Software** - Structure - Offer Letter - Salary Survey - AI - Generative AI **Additional Functionality** - Approval Process Control - Duplicate Detection - AI Copilot - Customizable Reports - Role-Based Permissions - Employee Onboarding - Alerts/Notifications - Data Import/Export - Reminders - Customizable Templates - Compensation Statements - Goal Setting/Tracking - Automated Receipt Matching - Organizational Charting - Market Data Analysis - Employee Reward Programs - Employee Portal - Compensation Plan Modeling - Employee Database - Audit Trail **Recruiting and Onboarding** - Job Posting **Additional Functionality** - Customizable Reports - Succession Planning - Data Import/Export - 360 Degree Feedback - Single Sign On - Customizable Templates - SSL Security - Job Scoring - AI Copilot - Customizable Forms - Individual Development Plans - Customizable Branding - For Job Analysts - Benchmarking - Skills Assessment - Talent Acquisition - Generative AI - Multi-Language - Document Templates - Job Comparison - Reporting & Statistics - Access Controls/Permissions - Status Tracking - Factor-based Evaluation - Electronic Signature - Match & Merge - Secure Data Storage **Platform** - Customization - Internationalization - User, Role, and Access Management - Activity Dashboard - Activity Dashboard - Mobile Access - Activity Dashboard - Training Management - Goal Management - Feedback Management - Action Management - Mobile Access - Activity Dashboard - Benefits Dashboard - Activity Dashboard - Feedback Management - Performance Management - Recruitment Management - Compliance Management - Training Management - Calendar Management - Employee Management - Orientation Workflow Management - Task Management - HR Management - Help Desk Management - Mobile Access - Payroll Management - Document Management - Job Description Management - Social Media Integration - Mobile Access - Activity Dashboard - Third-Party Integrations - Assessment Management - Social Media Integration - Activity Dashboard - Mobile Access - Third-Party Integration - Initiative Management - Workflow Management - Community Management - Employee Referral Management - Candidate Management - Workflow Management - Communication Management - Advertising Management - Application Management - Email Management - Job Management - Discount Management - Pipeline Management - File Management - Job Management - Data Storage Management - Compensation Management - Employee Management - Job Application Management - HR Management - Competency Management - Performance Management - Compliance Management - Job Description Management - Evaluation Management ## Top Payscale Ascent (formerly Marketpay) Alternatives - [Salary.com](https://www.g2.com/products/salary-com-salary-com/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (1,073 reviews) - [Workday HCM](https://www.g2.com/products/workday-hcm/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (1,608 reviews) - [Paycom](https://www.g2.com/products/paycom/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (4,681 reviews)