Al Lee joined PayScale, the world leader in online compensation data collection, in 2005 as the Director of Quantitative Analysis, continuing a career spanning 20 years in data analysis, algorithm design, and software development.

At PayScale, Dr. Lee is responsible for analyzing pay, workers, jobs, and employers to understand the important factors that determine salaries in the US and other markets around the world. Working with PayScale’s software and information taxonomy teams, Dr. Lee has integrated this knowledge into PayScale’s proprietary automated system for determining the market price of workers and jobs.

Immediately before coming to PayScale, Dr. Lee worked for six years at Microsoft, initially in Internet performance analysis for msnbc.com and microsoft.com, and later designing and analyzing Microsoft's “Windows Communication Foundation” for service-oriented web services, a key component of the Vista operating system.

In the 90’s, Dr. Lee was a physics professor and high energy physics researcher at Duke University, designing and utilizing large scale computer clusters and parallel processing for data mining and statistical analysis of the fundamental constituents of nature. Dr. Lee holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics and Philosophy from Swarthmore College.