At Pave, we’re constantly working to improve our products to better meet the needs of our customers and solve their pain points. Over the first few months of 2025, we celebrated some amazing Q1 product launches.
Read on to explore our biggest product and features launches from Q2!
Compensation Workflows
Compensation Planning
Guides
Compensation teams spend countless hours enabling planners prior to a cycle, whether by hosting trainings, creating decks, sending emails, or any number of other methods. But the unfortunate fact is, most planners will forget all those enablement lessons by the time planning rolls around. Pave’s Guides feature puts an end to this cycle by supercharging your planners with fully-customizable, in-app walkthroughs in the Compensation Planning tool.
With Guides, you can embed custom announcements, training videos, and policy explanations directly into the planning workflow, with personalized guidance for specific user groups (e.g. HRBPs, frontline managers, or executives). Prime your planners with exactly the context they need, exactly when they need it—before, during, and after each planning cycle.
Cycle Insights: Outcomes
In Q1, we announced the launch of Cycle Insights, which offered two powerful dashboards: Cycle Progress and Budgets. In Q2, we completed the set with the launch of Cycle Outcomes. This dynamic dashboard empowers compensation leaders to track critical compensation metrics as they evolve during a cycle, ensuring decisions are aligned with compensation philosophy, and revealing the true impact of a cycle across the organization.
These visualizations help customers observe real-time strategic intelligence based on planner inputs, leverage a flexible filtering system to drill down into any dimension or segment, and make data-driven decisions (without the spreadsheet headaches). Cycle Outcomes provides insights that inform total rewards leaders of key compensation metrics, automating what once took days into instant analysis.
Reward letter editor
Until now, customers relied on the Pave team to implement any requested updates to reward letters. With the release of a new editor tool, the power to edit reward letters is officially in your hands. The new reward letter editor gives customers the control to change the wording of a reward letter at any time—no back-and-forth required.
The reward letter editor is intuitive and easy to use, with features like syntax highlighting, auto-complete, and an employee dropdown to view previews for specific employees. Plus, the live visual preview enables you to see your updates as you make them, giving you real-time feedback.
Column defaults
Sometimes, the best feature is the one that gets out of your way. Column Defaults brings simplicity to compensation planning by hiding the non-essential data clutter and surfacing only what planners actually need to make decisions in their worksheet.
Critical information stays front and center, while detailed breakdowns live just one click away in expanded views. This frees up your managers to focus on the merit increase decisions that matter.
Cycle permissions
The launch of the cycle permissions feature is another way Pave is making life simpler for planners. Cycle permissions brings precision to planner access by showing each user only the compensation cycles that matter to their role. The result is a cleaner, more secure planning experience that enables planners to focus on the decisions they're actually responsible for instead of navigating through organizational complexity.
Total Rewards, Visual Offer Letter, & Team View
Original equity grant value (Total Rewards)
Actual grant values can change drastically over time as share prices change. This can cause issues when employees forget what their original grant value was intended to be, leading to frustration or unrealistic expectations. Without the crucial context about intended grant value, even your best equity decisions can look out of step or lead to confusion when market winds shift.
Original Grant Value displays the initial intended value alongside current market values in Total Rewards, enabling employees to see both the initial value and how market forces have changed over time. This helps your organization better communicate about equity awards and build trust with your employees.
Monthly compensation view (Total Rewards & Visual Offer Letter)
If you manage an international team, this scenario might seem familiar: Your Total Rewards portal proudly displays "$120,000 annually" to employees in a market where salaries are thought of in monthly terms. Fortunately, we’ve eliminated this embarrassing problem with the new monthly view in our Total Rewards and Visual Offer Letter products.
Companies can set a default display preference while giving employees the freedom to view their pay in whatever format actually resonates with them, whether that's annual figures for US-based workers or monthly breakdowns for international talent. It's a simple fix that eliminates a common source of confusion and demonstrates a commitment to global teams.
Value at vest (Team View)
When it comes to equity value, share price at the time of vest is the most important number to employees. It’s the best reflection of their realized compensation—particularly at public companies where stock price fluctuates significantly—as it's the value that they actually see in their bank account.
We’ve updated Team View to better reflect this reality. Now, admins can choose to display past equity values in Team View with value at vest, making historical views more accurately aligned with employees' perception.
Modernized total compensation timeline (Team View)
Productive pay conversations just got easier. The modernized total compensation timeline in Team View syncs everyone's experience in Pave, whether you're a manager reviewing your team or an employee checking your own profile. Plus, the timeline visually resembles those displayed in Total Rewards, creating a clear and unified experience for every user.
Admins can now customize the number of years shown in the past and future, exclude compensation types (e.g., benefits), and tell a better total rewards story around historical and future bonus values. Now when managers and employees discuss compensation changes, promotions, or equity grants, those conversations are smoother and build greater trust in total rewards programs.
Market Data
Surface relevant participants
In compensation benchmarking, relevance trumps volume every time—you'd rather have 20 companies that actually look like yours than 2,000 that don't. And smart benchmarking starts with knowing who you're actually benchmarking against.
Pave's new participant surfacing feature eliminates this benchmarking blind spot by automatically highlighting companies of similar size and industry, so you'll know upfront when you're looking at data from peer companies.
Revamped consistency labels
Compensation leaders need benchmarking data that’s definitive, transparent, and defensible. To support this, Pave created consistency labels to help you learn more about the underlying dataset than you can glean from sample size alone. In Q2, we revamped our consistency labels to provide even more confidence. New labels, intuitive colors, and enhanced visuals now tell the complete story of data reliability, without ambiguous indicators or unclear quality metrics.
Pave Data Lab
In May, we were thrilled to launch Pave Data Lab, our new community for compensation and total rewards professionals. Pave Data Lab is your home for daily research and insights from our data science team and in-house compensation experts, plus exclusive access to pulse surveys and quick polls. In Pave Data Lab, you’ll find everything from interactive insights on AI and ML compensation trends, to unvested equity holdings by tenure, to job level distributions by function, and much more—all at your fingertips via AI-powered search.
Pave Data Lab is open to total rewards and compensation professionals who want to dive deep into the data that powers our industry. If that sounds like you, join Pave Data Lab today!
Platform
Pave API
Compensation teams, HR Business Partners, and executives all have million-dollar questions they want to answer with data, but that data is often locked in silos. The Pave API liberates your compensation planning outcomes, seamlessly feeding real-time, employee-level data directly into your existing business intelligence tools.
With the Pave API, you can write merit cycle changes—like promotions, bonuses, and salary adjustments—back into your HRIS system at the click of a button. You can write rules and query data to conduct quality checks for improved accuracy of cycle outcomes. You can run specific, granular reports using merit cycle data in your business intelligence tool of choice. The Pave API isn’t just another data integration—it's strategic ammunition for the modern compensation leader.
Rippling SSO
In Q2, the existing integration between Pave and Rippling was upgraded to include Single Sign-On (SSO) and User Management capabilities. This update streamlines access management and strengthens security for joint customers. With this enhanced integration, IT administrators can now centrally manage access to Pave directly through Rippling, reducing administrative overhead and enhancing security posture.
Read more about the enhanced Rippling partnership.
Auto-manager assignment
If you've ever spent your weekend manually updating user permissions because three managers got promoted, two switched teams, and one decided to "pursue new opportunities", this one's for you. Reporting structures at large organizations are constantly shifting, yet many compensation platforms still require you to manually assign and reassign roles.
Pave's Auto-Manager Assignment puts your permission management on intelligent autopilot, giving you clean, accurate permissions that scale with your business. Enable auto-assignment, and the system automatically grants and revokes permissions based on real-time org chart changes.
The Roadmap Ahead
Our roadmap for the second half of the year is bringing even bigger enhancements. For a sneak peek, read our launch preview article about the exciting changes that are set to bring you greater accuracy and relevancy in Pave’s Market Data product.
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Pave is a world-class team committed to unlocking a labor market built on trust. Our mission is to build confidence in every compensation decision.
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