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Compensation management for the modern retail and consumer goods company

Retail and consumer goods compensation isn't one job to price — it's thousands, across stores, distribution centers, and headquarters, all competing for the same shrinking pool of hourly and specialized talent. Pave is the modern solution for compensation management, with a complete platform for pricing jobs, running merit cycles, and communicating total rewards across your entire workforce.

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More than 9,000 companies use Pave to power their compensation ecosystems

Most retail managers oversee about 5 direct reports

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Retail runs on entry-level talent

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Why now?

The new retail and consumer goods talent landscape

Retail and consumer goods employers aren't just competing with each other for talent anymore — they're competing with customer contact, warehousing, gig work, and hospitality for the same hourly workers, in a labor market that stays structurally tight even as hiring cools elsewhere. At the same time, retailers are being asked to grow sales while holding the line on labor costs, a tension that shows up directly in comp budgets: retail and consumer goods increases are consistently among the most conservative of any industry, even in years when overall wage growth ticks up. Layer in a workforce that spans register associates to merchandising, e-commerce, and supply chain specialists, plus pay transparency laws that now touch nearly every major retail market, and the comp function is being asked to do a lot more with the same team. Pave changes that.

Why Pave?

One platform for your entire compensation ecosystem

Eliminate spreadsheets and disconnected point solutions by creating a fully integrated compensation ecosystem — from corporate roles to your entire store and distribution footprint — built to work alongside Workday, SAP, and the tools your business already runs on.

Every pay decision, built to be defended

Give your HR team, store operations leaders, and finance leaders the data and insights they need to make confident, consistent compensation decisions across every location, region, and pay band.

Purpose-built AI for expanded data coverage

Stop sacrificing coverage for relevance. Hourly, seasonal, and store-level roles are exactly where traditional surveys run thin — Pave's AI-powered market pricing fills the gaps and irregularities other data sources leave behind.

The comp foundation to grow and scale

Whether you're building a job architecture that spans corporate and field roles for the first time or preparing for pay transparency requirements across every state and market you operate in, Pave gets your program structured and ready.

THE PAVE AGENT

Ask anything. Get a defensible answer in seconds.

When a district manager wants to know whether a store lead's pay is falling behind market, or a VP needs to see what a $0.50 minimum-wage increase does to next quarter's labor budget across 400 locations, waiting on an analyst isn't an option. The Pave Agent is your AI compensation analyst — it reasons across your real-time data, your pay philosophy, and every location's guardrails to recommend an answer, complete with data sources and confidence levels you can take to leadership. It delivers the analysis; your team makes the call.

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Ask anything. Get a defensible answer in seconds.

SALARY BENCHMARKING

Real-time benchmarks,
no surveys required

Connect your existing HRIS, EMS, or ATS systems and gain access to real-time compensation benchmarks across 295+ job families and 170+ locations — corporate, distribution, and store-level roles included. Pave's data is sourced continuously, not on an annual cycle, so you're always pricing against what the market is doing today, not what it was doing 14 months ago.

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Real-time benchmarks, no surveys required

MARKET PRICING

Price any job,
anywhere in the world

Getting salary ranges wrong in either direction is costly — and expensive to fix at retail scale, across hundreds of locations. Pave's Market Pricing blends data across sources at the job family level and resolves gaps with AI-powered Auto-Smoothing, so you can build defensible pay ranges for every role, from store associate to VP of Merchandising.

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COMPENSATION PLANNING

Fully automated merit cycles, built for distributed teams

Spreadsheets weren't built for comp planning across hundreds of locations and thousands of hourly workers — especially with seasonal hiring surges layered on top. Pave replaces them with guardrail-equipped workflows, role-based permissions, and real-time budget tracking, so every cycle lands on time and on budget, no matter how distributed your workforce is.

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Fully automated merit cycles, built for distributed teams

TOTAL REWARDS

Communicate pay, retain your frontline

High turnover is expensive, and much of it stems from employees not seeing the full value of what they're offered. Pave's Total Rewards Portal gives every employee — corporate or hourly — a dynamic, always-current view of their complete package, helping you compete with warehousing and gig work for the same talent.

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WEBINAR

Dutch Bros: Four Comp Cycles, One Platform

Dutch Bros' Senior Director of Compensation on running four distinct cycle types across a complex, multi-population org — from corporate HQ to quarterly CEO discretionary awards.

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