Salary.com, the global leader in compensation technology and data, has launched Elevate, a secure portal designed to give employees and managers direct access to essential elements of their roles — transparent pay insights, job descriptions, and skills-based career paths.
As part of Salary.com’s Total Compensation Management (TCM) approach, Elevate empowers organizations to scale HR-guided compensation insights across the workforce. It equips managers to navigate sensitive compensation topics in ways that build trust and foster engagement. “We’re not just diagnosing today’s confidence gap between employers and employees, we’re delivering solutions that build trust across an organization’s workforce through real-time accessibility and shared understanding,” said Kent Plunkett, CEO of Salary.com. “From the C-level to every employee, we work to earn a paycheck. Getting that right — and communicating with transparency — are necessary to foster trust, engagement, collaboration, and every tenet of company culture.”
With Elevate, HR teams can distribute approved job descriptions and pay communications at scale, track recipient acknowledgment, and provide employees with access to HR-approved pay ranges tied to real job and market data. Managers gain visibility into delivery and completion of job descriptions and pay communications, along with insights needed to facilitate skills-based career conversations. Employees benefit from clarity around job responsibilities, advancement opportunities, and transparent pay insights.
For organizations focused on transparency, Elevate provides employees with access to a library of approved company job descriptions and pay communications, helping them understand their role in the broader organizational context and what’s required for career progression. As more businesses move toward skills-based roles requiring proficiency in hard and soft skills, the importance of job descriptions grows. Elevate enables HR and compensation teams to stay ahead of these expectations with proactive solutions.
“What we learned from the Great Resignation is that the choices employers make in weak labor markets bear weight when the labor market turns – and the labor market always turns,” said Amy Dwyer, CHRO of Salary.com. “Essential to business success is the ability to retain and engage talent through volatility. Not only does Elevate help employees and their managers have open, productive career conversations tied to skills and role expectations, but it centers the conversation in shared, real-time access and transparency.”
Dwyer added, “Sometimes the best innovation in HR takes us back to the basics. We know that most employees don’t have a clear sense of why they’re paid what they’re paid, or how to progress to the next level of their career. Even when businesses provide formal pay communications and career training, the annual or semi-annual cadence often forces managers to deliver insights ad hoc, creating inconsistencies in employee experience and performance outcomes.”
With Elevate, managers gain a clear framework for pay practices aligned with their organization, location, and labor market—guided by HR and scaled through technology. At the same time, employees can take charge of their career journeys by better understanding their current role, compensation, and opportunities for growth. Elevate builds a foundation of trust and transparency, equipping organizations for a future that looks very different from today.
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