its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations . july 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message payscale type private founded 2002 01 01 headquarters seattle washington key people michael metzger ceo and president 1 website http www.payscale.com payscale inc. or payscale.com is an online salary benefits and compensation information company which launched its service on january 1 2002 . 2 it was founded by joe giordano a former microsoft and drugstore.com manager and john gaffney . on april 24 2014 warburg pincus invested up to 100 000 000 in payscale for a majority ownership stake in the company . 3 payscale was developed to help people obtain accurate real time information on job market compensation . the service works via the internet by enabling individual employees to submit their job profile and salary data which is then compared to others . the company states that it is able to use the volume of information statistically to determine accurate real time salary information . 4 the company generates revenue by selling aggregate data and web services to employers to aid in determining correct market rates for hiring benchmarking and budgeting and by targeted advertising to employees that visit its web site . the company has published rankings of u.s. universities based on return on investment or the purported difference between student expenditures for a university degree and the money they earn from it . 5 these rankings are dramatically different from better known rankings published by u.s. news and world report forbes the economist and other mainstream publications for instance payscale places yale university 93rd among american universities and georgetown university 132nd . the chronicle of higher education has criticized payscale for using misleading sample sizes and for omitting all alumni of universities who go on to grad school from its count . 6 references edit payscale management team . retrieved 7 may 2014 . payscale inc. on business week . investing.businessweek.com . retrieved 2012 08 02 . cook john 24 april 2014 . salary report generator payscale getting up to 100m in deal led by warburg pincus . retrieved 7 may 2014 . damon darlin march 3 2007 . using the web to get the boss to pay more . the new york times . retrieved 2 august 2012 . 2013 college education roi rankings does a degree always pay off svaldi david april 21 2014 . the more you pay the more it s worth . the huffington post . quoting the chronicle of higher education external links edit payscale web site new york times by damon darlin the new york times march 3 2007 review how much money do you make by michael arrington techcrunch october 12 2006 payscale shows you the money from the seattle times august 29 2005 this article about a financial services corporation of the united states is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title payscale & oldid 737201185 categories online databasescompanies based in seattle2002 establishments in washington state privately held companies based in washington state companies established in 2002united states financial services company stubshidden categories articles lacking in text citations from july 2008all articles lacking in text citationsall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages italiano edit links this page was last modified on 1 september 2016 at 09 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view