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Workday Compensation vs. Payscale Ascent

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricWorkday Compensation

by Workday

Payscale Ascent

by Payscale

Overall rating4.34.3
Review count77991
Ease of use8.88.5
Ease of setup8.88.2
Quality of support9.08.9
Meets requirements9.28.8
NPS53.24675352.604699
Small Business3.9%4.7%
Mid-Market20.8%30.4%
Enterprise75.3%64.9%
Total page views3382,212
Total LLM citations673123

Workday Compensation

Workday Compensation provides tools for making optimal decisions—from competitive packages to attract the best talent, identifying and addressing pay inequities, and rewarding employees for performance. Workday Compensation and Workday Advanced Compensation help teams elevate compensation to a more strategic process, empowering employees and key stakeholders in their compensation planning initiatives.

Pros

  • Payroll Management
  • Salary Management
  • Ease of Access

Payscale Ascent

Payscale Ascent is the AI-first compensation intelligence platform built for benchmarking, pay structures, and market pricing decisions. Ascent brings market data and AI-driven workflows together in one platform, so comp teams can price jobs, build defensible pay structures, and manage survey participation without stitching together spreadsheets and separate tools. From a first benchmark to a complex global pay strategy, Payscale Ascent surfaces the market insights teams need, when they need them - helping comp professionals move from data to decision faster, with confidence.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Market Data
  • Comprehensive Data
  • Compensation Management
  • Helpful