A lot can happen in a year! And in 2025, a lot definitely happened at Pave. So we’re taking a look back at the year’s biggest moments across our product, our company, and our data.
We launched game-changing features, like Calculated Benchmarks to transform equity benchmarking using machine learning, and Cycle Insights to provide clear, real-time views of compensation cycle activity. We expanded Pave Data Lab to include regular pulse surveys to provide community-sourced insights. We hosted the second annual Total Rewards Live conference in San Francisco, bringing the compensation community together to network and learn from each other (sign up to join us for TRL 2026 here).
And that’s just to name a few milestones.
Clearly, 2025 was a big year at Pave. Let’s dive into some more of our top moments.
Platform Highlights
To start, let’s explore some trends across Pave’s platform, including our Market Data, Market Pricing, and Compensation Planning products, and see how they compare to 2024.
Billions (With a B)
Pave customers managed billions in compensation budgets using our platform. Yes, you read that right: Billions—271 billion to be exact. That’s about $96 billion more than in 2024.
They also built and managed more than 3.1 million salary bands in Pave—a huge increase from the 1.7 million bands managed in 2024.
We also saw even more companies run crucial compensation workflows on our platform, enabling them to streamline their processes—and get out of spreadsheets.
- 685 Merit cycles run on Pave
We compiled insights from these cycles into our Merit Cycle State of the Union Report—download your free copy, and stay tuned for an updated version in 2026.
Most Searched Job Families
Pave’s Market Data product is used by thousands of companies to search for targeted compensation benchmarks every day. In 2025, that added up to more than 25 million searches, or roughly 70,000 searches per day.
What were the most popular searches? The most searched roles were:
And the most searched countries outside of the US included:
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- India
- Australia
- Spain
- Ireland
- Brazil
- Argentina
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New Job Families in Pave
2025 was a huge year for expanding our dataset. In fact, we nearly doubled the number of job families in our job catalog.
New Locations in Pave
We also rolled out more locations to support benchmarking for global businesses in Pave’s Market Data product, including:
Looking Ahead
2025 was a year of huge growth for Pave and our compensation community. As we look back and celebrate our Q4 launches, we’re also looking ahead to 2026 and all the plans and product releases on the horizon. Subscribe to our newsletter to make sure you’re the first to know about the latest updates from Pave.
Happy New Year!
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.
