Cascade partners with Payscale to provide you access to next generation compensation data. Payscale Peer is an online compensation platform that contains on-demand employer-reported salary data for over 5,000 benchmark positions that span all industries, departments, and levels. Cascade will be creating a PDF report on the top 50 jobs reported on this spring, free for member participants and discounted for non-member participants.
Top Features of Payscale include:
Cascade will review your data to ensure its accuracy.
Use this link to register for Payscale
The email listed in your registration will be your main account admin. You will be able to add additional users later with less access, so please make sure the email you are entering here is your main Payscale user and should have access to all of the site. This registration page includes links to tell you more about how your data will be used.
By registering using this link, you are NOT agreeing to purchase access to Payscale. This is simply registering that you want to participate in Payscale. Filling out this form will not generate a fee.
Once you submit the registration form in Payscale, a member of our team will reach out to you with the Payscale data collection file.
Our team will also provide you with written resources and instructional videos including:
You can submit your data with two methods:
In May 2025, Cascade will be publishing a PDF compensation report on the top 50 jobs reported on in the spring. This report is FREE to member participants and discounted for non-member participants. Non-participants can purchase as well. For those needing more data than the 50 jobs, we recommend upgrading access to the online Payscale Peer platform.
To purchase one-year’s online access to Payscale use the purchase options below. Make sure to sign in for member pricing. By purchasing you gain unlimited access to the Payscale Peer platform, a $6,500 value.
Our Small, Pro, and Premium member packages include Payscale Peer as a benefit. Make sure to check your membership type before completing the purchase order below.
After your data has been cleaned and you have purchased the online access, you will receive an email from donotreply@m.payscale.com with your temporary login to your Payscale account.
You will need to complete a couple of steps to finalize your participation.
You will be required to update your data once a year to be considered a participant. You can do this by updating your data in the system, resubmitting an updated Excel sheet, or linking your HRIS to Payscale for automatic updates. The HRIS’ that are currently in Payscale are:
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Login to your Payscale account here.
A pdf user guide will be provided at your time of purchase that will also include a video walkthrough on how to pull your reports.
Q: What is Payscale?
A. Payscale is an online compensation data collection platform that Cascade is partnering with to provide even more reliable and valid compensation data. The Peer Platform that our members have access to allows for compensation benchmarking on over 5,000 jobs with both regional and national data. Because this platform is a more robust resource it will replace our annual Regional Pay Survey.
Q: How do I get access to Payscale?
A. Organizations will have to submit data and purchase access in order to get access to the Payscale Peer platform. Member participants will receive a PDF report on the top 50 jobs reported on this spring. Non-members and non-participants can purchase the report.
Q: Does this replace partnering with the Cascade Compensation Consulting Team?
A. No. Payscale Peer is replacing our Regional Pay Survey and is just a single source of compensation data. Our team puts together a comprehensive report utilizing multiple data sources. When making important decisions that will impact your business, it’s important that you utilize multiple sources of data. Payscale is a great resource for data, but it’s only one data point and not sufficient for a full market analysis. We recommend utilizing at least three different market sources to ensure that you are accurately capturing the market for your role. Further, our team helps you develop your full compensation program including your philosophy, structure and ensuring pay equity.
Q: How does Payscale relate to Cascade’s Regional Pay Survey?
A. Payscale has replaced Cascade’s traditional Regional Pay Survey. All past participants or purchasers of the Regional Pay Survey are encouraged to participate in Payscale to boost the regional data set available in Payscale and to get access to thousands of job matches for compensation benchmarking.
Q: I participated in Payscale last year, how do I update my data this year?
A. You update your data three different ways: 1) you can resubmit the spreadsheet you sent last year with updated wages/employees, 2) you can update your data inside your account, or 3) you can link to your HRIS for automatic updates to be pushed through to Payscale. For instructions on any of these options, contact us.
Q: I missed the participation window. When can I next participate?
A. Payscale Peer is open for participation at any time. Cascade runs participation windows so that we can upload a large group of data at once and we can send easy reminders to anyone. However, you can participate or update your data at any time during the year.
Q: Is Payscale free?
A. Participation (submitting your data) in Payscale has no fee. Member participants will receive a FREE PDF report on the top 50 jobs reported on this spring. Non-member participants can purchase access at a discounted rate. For those that need more data, we recommend purchasing access to the online Payscale Peer platform.
Gaining access to the Payscale Peer platform with all of the data after participation does have a cost. Essential member fees are $325-$425 and non-member fees are $1,800-$3,300, based on the number of full-time equivalent employees (FTEs). Small, Pro, and Premium members of Cascade include Payscale as a benefit of their membership. This pricing is exclusive to Cascade members and normally retails for close to $6,500 per organization per year.
Q: Is there a free version of Payscale as a member benefit?
A. There is a free pdf report of our top 50 reported jobs available in the spring for our member participants. Full access to Payscale is available for free to our Pro, Premium and Small members.
Q: How do I get access to the free report?
A. A. The PDF report will be published in the middle of May. We will email the report to the survey contact for our member participants. Non-member participants and non-participants can purchase their report from the link in the Purchase Access step above. If you are a member who believes they have participated and should have received a report, you can email surveys@cascadeemployers.com to check.
Q: How “real-time” is Payscale’s data?
A. Payscale’s data is refreshed daily with eligible data available to enter the common data pool. By that, Payscale holds data entered for 90 days before adding it to the larger database to meet DOJ’s antitrust guidelines. So you may not see compensation data entered on a particular day but you will see the freshest data that is in line with antitrust guidelines.
Q: Can you compare your data to direct competitors?
A. Yes! One of the reporting options in Payscale allows you to select other organizations by name that you want to use to create your market average. This is a great option to make sure you are looking at averages and being competitive with data from your business rivals.
Q: How can I protect my data if you can select specific organizations’ names for data comparison?
A. Payscale’s report is in line with DOJ antitrust guidelines. When choosing competitor names to create your average, you will have to select a minimum of 5 organizations in order for the report to be run. If you try to run the report multiple times in order to back into a specific organization’s compensation data, your account will be flagged and reporting halted. There is also a dominance diffusion threshold, that if an organization’s data makes up too large of a percentage of the average, the report will require you to add more organizations to reduce that impact.
Q: What do I do if I forgot my login to Payscale?
A. Contact surveys@cascadeemployers.com if you forgot your login for the Payscale site.
Q: My username/password for Payscale is no longer working. What is wrong?
A. Contact surveys@cascadeemployers.com if your Payscale login is no longer working. You may want to check if your membership status with Cascade has lapsed or if your data submitted to Payscale hasn’t been updated in over a year. Our team will be able to help identify what is needed to reinstate your access.
