Pave

The AI compensation platform

by Pave · Compensation & Benefits

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Executive Summary

Pave is a compensation management platform that combines real-time market pay benchmarks from its integrated clients with workflows for job architecture, market pricing, merit cycles, manager team views and total rewards communication. Companies set up data feeds from their ATS, HRIS and equity management systems, and an AI assistant called the Pave Agent works from the company's own compensation data and Pave's benchmarks. The vendor presents it as a platform for compensation teams.

Use Cases

  • Benchmarking pay against real-time market data from Pave's integrated clients
  • Pricing jobs and setting salary ranges and equity targets
  • Running merit cycles and compensation planning
  • Giving managers a team view of pay and flagging employee flight risks
  • Communicating total rewards to employees through a personalized portal
  • Sending candidates a visual offer letter showing total compensation

Features

Visibility

  • Real-Time Compensation Benchmarking: Real-time compensation benchmarks from more than 9,000 participating companies
  • Market Data: Access real-time compensation benchmarks and workforce insights from 9,000+ integrated Pave clients.
  • Pave Market Intelligence: Unlock market intelligence available only to Pave clients: real-time compensation benchmarks, workforce trends, and competitive intelligence from 9,000+ integrated Pave customers.

Intelligence

  • The AI: Build, customize, and scale an agentic platform that automates your most complex compensation workflows with AI.

Support

  • Dynamic Total Rewards Portals: Total Rewards Delight and retain every employee with a personalized, dynamic total rewards portal
  • Total Rewards: Establish your job architecture, upload your traditional comp surveys, and sync Pave's real-time benchmarks from 9,000+ integrated companies.

Technical Specifications

Architecture
Cloud-native SaaS, unified intelligence layer
Deployment
Cloud/SaaS
MCP Server
Yes

Infrastructure

  • GCP
  • Google data centers

AI/ML Stack

  • Machine Learning
  • Gemini

Integrations

  • ADP
  • Ashby
  • BambooHR
  • Carta
  • Culture Amp
  • Deel
  • Greenhouse
  • Gusto
  • HiBob
  • Lever
  • Namely
  • Paylocity

Security & Compliance

Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, SOC 1 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022

Pricing

Model
Tiered plans: free Market Data Lite, Market Data Pro and Pave Agent on request
Starting Price
Free tier available; paid plans by quote
Target Customer
SMB to Enterprise
Free Trial
Yes

About Pave

Pave provides real-time compensation data and planning tools to help companies make fair, competitive pay decisions.

Founded: 2019 · Headquarters: San Francisco, United States · Employees: 51-200 · Private

Verified sources

Each of these facts was checked against the vendor page linked (2026-10-15).

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