Answer a pay complaint with evidence
Go from "I think I'm underpaid" to a fact-based answer before the next 1:1.
The prompt
[Employee name] says they're paid below market. Compare their base and total cash to the market for their job, level and location, and to peers in the same role. Tell me whether the concern holds up, and draft talking points for their manager.
Then try
- What would it cost to move them to our target percentile?
- Is anyone else in this role in the same position?
What you get back
Sample output with illustrative data
The concern partly holds up. Base sits at the 38th percentile for a Senior Software Engineer in Denver, below your 50th percentile target. Total cash is at the 47th because of bonus. Two of five peers in the role are in the same position.
The problem
An employee says they're paid below market. You need to check their pay against the market, their band and their peers, then give their manager something to say.
The old way
- Export the employee and their peers from the HRIS
- Look up the job in a benchmark survey and guess the match
- Build a one-off spreadsheet, then write talking points from scratch
Why it works in Pave
Your data and the market, together
Employee pay and live benchmarks sit in the same place. No exports, no lookups.
Jobs already matched
The comparison uses the job match your team already approved, so it's apples to apples.
Knows your philosophy
If you target the 60th percentile for engineering, it measures against that, not a generic median.
Data it uses
Your data
- Employee record
Job, level, location, tenure and pay from your HRIS - Pay bands
Your ranges for the role - Performance
Latest rating, if connected
Pave intelligence
- Market Pricing
Your priced job, matched to market - Market Data benchmarks
Base and total cash by level and location - Peer cohort
Companies like yours by size and industry
What you need
See it on your data
We'll run this prompt in your Pave instance before we ever meet.
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