--- title: Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) Reviews meta\_title: 'Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 723 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 723 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Talent Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/talent-management --- # Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) Reviews & Product Details Visit Website Access fresh compensation data and AI-powered workflows — all within a scalable platform that delivers intelligent insights to make confident pay decisions. \* Price with confidence — any job, anywhere, anytime \* Stay ahead with dynamic insights into the market and your organization \* Ensure consistency with job- and grade-based pay ranges \* Maximize survey ROI with centralized management and participation * * * Product Website Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) Seller [Payscale](https://www.g2.com/sellers/payscale) Discussions [Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) Community](https://www.g2.com/products/payscale-ascent-formerly-payfactors/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Heather Kruger Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/payscale-ascent-formerly-payfactors/pricing) ## Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) Integrations (6) What do users say about integrations? Verified by Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") ADP Workforce Now ](https://www.g2.com/products/adp-workforce-now/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Paylocity ](https://www.g2.com/products/paylocity/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") UKG Pro ](https://www.g2.com/products/ukg-pro/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Workday Compensation ](https://www.g2.com/products/workday-compensation/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Workday HCM ](https://www.g2.com/products/workday-hcm/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") WTW Embark ](https://www.g2.com/products/wtw-embark/reviews) Show More ![Sara C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sara C.") SC Sara C. Compensation and Benefits Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/29/2025 "Payfactors has made my job easier." 5/5 What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? I have found Payfactors to be very helpful, especially since I am a compensation "team" of one. The information that the software provides is easy to use and the data is easy to analyze. I feel confident that I can make informed pay decisions for my company when using this product. When I have needed help with the system, customer care has been prompt and thorough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? Due to a lack of fiscal resources, my company is unable to implement some of the higher tier features of Payfactors such as HRIS integration and pay structures. Manually updating the system and administering our company data is time consuming and complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) solving and how is that benefiting you? It is removing the guesswork behind salaries. Where we once had to rely on search results and word of mouth in our industry, we now have solid data to rely upon. I also love that results are real-time. And the webinars and podcasts that Payfactors provides are key educational pieces that keep me up to date on market factors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Organic Review from User Profile ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") AF Verified User in Financial Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/16/2025 "Great Customization and Role Comparison, but Lacks Professional Export Options" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? The ability to see multiple job titles/descriptions to compare our roles with, especially when we have unique roles. The customization is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? I wish that there was a way to export information about a role that looked professional enough to present to leaders in the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) solving and how is that benefiting you? Ensuring we are paying appropriately based on the industry and our local market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Mekenzie B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mekenzie B.") MB Mekenzie B. Senior People Systems Analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/31/2024 "Insightful information that is user friendly." 3.5/5 What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? Payfactors had allowed us more transparency into compensation data. We enjoy having multiple data cuts with options to personalize pricing to fit our job descriptions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? The pricing project concept and publishing the jobs has been confusing for us. Sometimes it feels like we have a hard time finding matchings for the jobs we have. It just seems like there should be more options. We don't keep job descriptions in our HRIS right so maybe that would help since payfactors is only going off the job title. We have the comp planning module as well and that is not going well. Many features we had with teams has now gone away - we can destribute the budget evenly between divisions. We can't destribute money based on the suggested increase matrix and have it respect our overall budget. We can't upload job information ourselves. I have to always put in a ticket if the job information changes. It's hard to make any changes to the cycle itself. It's really buggy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) solving and how is that benefiting you? Merit increase cycle. Even though we're having a hard time with it. Also pricing jobs is more accurate with more data cuts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/27/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Steven L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Steven L.") SL Steven L. Head of Human Resources Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/16/2025 "Great Overall Experience" 5/5 What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? The system is customizable to our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? Non-standard position titles (legacy) can be tough to benchmark. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) solving and how is that benefiting you? Payfactors offers our organization a way to compensate based on the market. The allow for fair equity adjustments and not have the most vocal department be the once drawing down the budget. We make merit-based compensation decisions using Payfactors. This removes subjectivity from the process other than the performance review. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Justin W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Justin W.") JW Justin W. Director of Human Resources Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/11/2025 "Quality Data with Quantity" 4/5 What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? The amount of data provided and its reliability and accuracy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? Some of the reporting metrics and graphing is difficult to correctly populate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) solving and how is that benefiting you? Our pay philosophy has become more trusted and accurate than when it was without Payfactors. Having this tool and all its data has helped us resolve multiple pay matters and concerns for both employee, management, and the Company as a whole. Payfactors has given us a competitive advantage in talent acquisition and management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Consulting](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consulting") CC Verified User in Consulting Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/28/2025 "Reliable Surveys - Very Robust Tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? The tool gives our team a better platform to generate salary surveys and provide this valuable information back to our clients. We have confidence that it is reliable and accurate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? The product is so robust, we love having so much data and options but sometimes my team asks for a simpler tool that is easier to navigate for the basics that they need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) solving and how is that benefiting you? Providing a solution to your clients to accurately gauge where they sit in the market to know they are paying accurately and are staying competitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite KH Kamirynn H. HR Generalist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/22/2025 "Payfactors is so Simple!" 5/5 What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? I love the HRMA and Peer Data that we get with Payfactors. I also appreciate how easy it is to add multiple surveys at once and even price multiple jobs at once. Having the ability to working a "sandbox" environment in pricing projects gives me peace of mind that I can try different options and play around with it a little bit without making edits to the published pricing until I am ready to do so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? This is nitpicky, but the thing I like least about Payfactors is when you hover over a role to read the job description, sometimes it is hard to move the mouse over the description to scroll. Happy to chat about this more if this does not make sense so I can show someone what I mean. Seems like it would be an easy fix and save me some frustration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) solving and how is that benefiting you? We use Payfactors to run market data for all of our roles. It is a great tool for US and several of our International countries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Nahed K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nahed K.") NK Nahed K. Head of People and Culture Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/10/2025 "Solid comp benchmarking tool but UI needs some work" 4/5 What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? Large database of jobs and the quick price feature allows me to benchmark a role very quickly. The personalized support that the Payfactors team offers to benchmark a job is also very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? The UI is outdated and clunky. There have been some improvements recently but the core functionality (e.g., Pricing Projects) is still bogged down by an unintuitive interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) solving and how is that benefiting you? Payfactors gives us access to market data from multiple sources to accurately benchmark our compensation and pay employees competitively and fairly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 IconCurrent UserValidated ReviewerSource: G2 invite ![Christine B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Christine B.") CB Christine B. Senior Talent Acquisition Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/16/2025 "Its better than what we have had in the past but needs some tweaking." 4/5 What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? The salary data is easy to pull for job titles using the same titles in the system or finding something similar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? That you have to pay $3,500 for each country's data set. That is expensive when you have international employees in different countries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) solving and how is that benefiting you? We benefit in knowing what the market rate is for our roles and that we are competitive to the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Wholesale](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Wholesale") AW Verified User in Wholesale Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/30/2025 "Can't live without Payfactors" 5/5 What do you like best about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? I love how easy it is to do a quick price, how it can integrate with our HRIS system so we have real time data for pulling comprehensive pricing projects and reports, and how quickly data like our TCC can be uploaded into the system by the customer support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? I only wish there was a way in the quick price feature to adjust up or down for education and experience like there is in the pricing project functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) solving and how is that benefiting you? Helping us ensure we are competitive externally as well as maintaining internal equity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ## Questions about Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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