Pave

🎯 Should you use Pave?

Buy if: You need real-time comp data to anchor offers without calling 6 recruiters or trusting 18-month-old spreadsheets.

Skip if: You hire 10 people a year and your CEO approves every comp band personally.

⚡ In practice

• ●Setup: 30-60 minutes to connect HRIS and map job families
• ●Offer negotiation: Pull fresh benchmarks mid-call, beats guessing
• ●Comp reviews: See drift before Finance pulls the alarm

⚠️ Where it breaks

• ●Free tier shows averages but hides percentile splits, which is where negotiation happens.
• ●Market data skews toward tech roles, thin coverage for niche functions like cleantech hardware or grant writers.

💸 Is it worth the money?

Free plan works for solo recruiters who need directional data. Paid tiers start north of $10k annually and make sense when bad offers cost you 3+ accepted candidates per year.

🆚 If not this

• ●Figures -> better if you want salary bands built into your ATS and skip the benchmarking layer
• ●Ravio -> UK/EU companies hiring outside the US need local data, not Bay Area transplants

🎯 Final verdict

Buy if bad comp intel costs you real candidates.