Deliver every merit cycle on time and on budget
With leaner teams and tighter budgets, a lot rides on this cycle. Pave replaces spreadsheet chaos with workflows that put your guidelines in front of every manager as they plan, so the cycle lands on time and every decision still holds up six months later. Compensation Planning is built for:
Running merit, bonus, and equity refresh in one unified cycle, each with its own budget and approval chain
Sending a decision back to the right planner with context, instead of editing over them
Giving every manager band position, performance data, and budget impact for each of their people, in one worksheet
Seeing progress, budget, and outcomes live at every level, from a single planner to the whole company
Catching compression, pay outliers, and vesting cliffs mid-cycle, before they become escalations
Closing the loop with reward letters that carry the decision to the employee
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Why Pave?
The largest real-time compensation dataset
Powered by automatic and persistent connections to HRIS, ATS, and EMS platforms, more than 8,000 companies use Pave to benchmark pay in real-time
Complete, end-to-end platform for compensation
Eliminate spreadsheets and disconnected point solutions by creating a fully integrated compensation ecosystem for your entire business
Exceptional experiences for your people and leaders
Give your employees, people managers, business partners, and leaders an intuitive, best-in-class experience that helps them make great compensation decisions
Powerful AI strategy built on proprietary datasets
Pave has a clear vision and pathway to achieving super compensation intelligence, backed by the data required to deliver high quality outcomes
Trusted by more than 9,000+ companies
Streamline every step of your merit cycle
Update your bands, manage budgets, gather manager input, and approve every change in one place, with real-time market data flowing straight into the cycle. Budget limits are enforced as you go: hard caps block a submission before it creates an overrun.
Configured for your company
Set your own logic for merit increases, promotions, and bringing employees into band, then let it guide every manager recommendation. Pave operationalizes your methodology, and the system guides and holds the limits; the manager still makes the decision.
Know exactly where the cycle stands, at any moment
Cycle Insights gives you live visibility into progress, budget, and outcomes at every level, so you can walk into an executive check-in tomorrow and show exactly where each business unit stands. AI-powered Smart Flags surface compression, outliers, and vesting cliffs mid-cycle, helping you address issues before they escalate. And when an issue needs a number changed, Worksheet Returns hands the decision back to the planner who owns it, with context attached — every round logged, so the record shows exactly who made the call.
Accelerate your pay decisions with Pave
Don't take our word for it. Listen to what our happy customers have to say about using real-time compensation data, predictive machine learning, and insight-infused workflows to perfect the art and science of pay.
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