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Compensation management built for the Australian and New Zealand markets

Australian and New Zealand employers are navigating pay transparency from both directions at once: pay secrecy clauses are gone, employees can compare notes freely, and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency now publishes employer-level gender pay gap data publicly, by name. Pave is the modern solution for compensation management, with a complete platform for pricing jobs, running merit cycles, and communicating total rewards across your teams in Australian and New Zealand.

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

Why now?

The new compensation landscape in Australia and New Zealand

Compensation teams in Australia and New Zealand are operating under a level of public scrutiny that didn't exist a few years ago. Pay secrecy clauses in employment contracts are banned, and employees are free to discuss and compare their pay. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) now requires reporting from private and Commonwealth public sector employers with 100 or more employees, and since 2024, it has published each employer's gender pay gap by name, with the most recent release in March 2026 covering roughly 8,500 employers. From 2026, larger employers with 500 or more staff must also set formal gender equality targets. With the national gender pay gap still sitting near 12% on base salary and closer to 22% on total remuneration, a public number without a credible explanation is a real reputational and talent risk. Compensation teams need pay decisions they can defend to employees, to the board, and now to the public. 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 for your workforce across Australia and New Zealand, built to work alongside Workday, SAP, and the tools your business already runs on.

Every pay decision is built to be defended

Give your HR team, People leaders, and finance leaders the data and insights they need to make confident, consistent compensation decisions — and a documented, defensible story to stand behind when your gender pay gap is public.

Purpose-built AI for expanded data coverage

Stop sacrificing coverage for relevance. Pave's AI-powered market pricing fills gaps and addresses irregularities in survey data across Australia and New Zealand, including roles and locations outside Sydney, Melbourne, and Auckland, where traditional benchmarks are thin.

The comp foundation to grow and scale

Whether you're building a job architecture for the first time or preparing for WGEA's expanding reporting and target-setting requirements, Pave gets your program structured and ready.

THE PAVE AGENT

Ask anything. Get a defensible answer in seconds.

When your board wants to know how this year's gender pay gap will look before WGEA publishes it, or a People Partner needs to check whether a promotion decision is consistent with how similar roles have been leveled across the business, 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 your reporting obligations 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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SALARY BENCHMARKING

Real-time benchmarks,
no surveys required

Connect your existing HRIS, EMS, or ATS systems to access real-time compensation benchmarks across 295+ job families and 170+ locations, including Australia. 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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MARKET PRICING

Price any job,
anywhere in the world

Getting salary ranges wrong in either direction is costly — and harder to explain away once your gender pay gap is public information. 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, backed by a methodology you can point to when WGEA's numbers come out.

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COMPENSATION PLANNING

Fully automated merit cycles

Spreadsheets weren't built for comp planning, especially when pay secrecy is gone and every manager's decision is one conversation away from being compared. Pave replaces spreadsheets with structured workflows, role-based permissions, and real-time budget guardrails, so every cycle is delivered on time, on budget, and consistently applied across the business.

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TOTAL REWARDS

Communicate pay, retain top talent

When employees don't see the full picture, they undervalue what you're offering — and in a market where pay secrecy no longer exists, they're comparing notes either way. Pave's Total Rewards Portal gives every employee a dynamic, always-current view of their complete package, as well as a preview of future earning potential.

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Case Studies

Learn how the best get even better.

Discover how compensation leaders like you are taking charge, making decisions with new levels of confidence, and earning the trust of their entire workforce.

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How Xero Took Back Control of Compensation Planning with Pave

Discover how Xero’s compensation team regained control and created a faster, more adaptable salary review process that supports the nuances of their global business.
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How Databricks Built a Scalable Global Compensation Strategy With Pave

With Compensation Planning and Total Rewards from Pave, the Databricks team transformed their approach to compensation, making it built to scale.
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How Workato Achieved On-time, Intuitive Merit Cycles with Market Pricing

Discover how Pave’s Market Pricing tool cut Workato’s annual benchmarking and salary range process down from 10 weeks to 3 weeks.
Market Pricing
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How Clio Leverages Market Pricing to Address Lagging Bands

By implementing Pave’s Market Pricing, Clio eliminated manual work, streamlined their compensation data and workflows, and built confidence in bands powered by real-time insights.
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