Pave vs. PayScale Insight Lab

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Pave
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Pave is a suite of real-time compensation tools to help companies plan and communicate compensation, from the company operating under the same name headquartered in San Francisco.N/A
PayScale Insight Lab
Score 4.2 out of 10
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PayScale Insight Lab is a sales intelligence software solution offered by PayScale, Inc.N/A
Pricing
PavePayScale Insight Lab
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PavePayScale Insight Lab
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
PavePayScale Insight Lab
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PavePayScale Insight Lab
Small Businesses
Arcoro HR
Arcoro HR
Score 8.8 out of 10
Arcoro HR
Arcoro HR
Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
PayScale Insight Lab
PayScale Insight Lab
Score 4.2 out of 10
QuotaPath
QuotaPath
Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprises
CaptivateIQ
CaptivateIQ
Score 8.0 out of 10
CaptivateIQ
CaptivateIQ
Score 8.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
PavePayScale Insight Lab
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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Usability
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Support Rating
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User Testimonials
PavePayScale Insight Lab
Likelihood to Recommend
Pave seems to work really well in the technology/software industry. Not sure about others, but seems limited, depending on what roles/jobs you are looking at. Data can be pretty limited, especially when you get more granular and look at levels versus prefixes (junior, senior, etc.). Highly recommended as one of at least a few data sources for compensation, depending on industry
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If you have a large employee base and you are trying to remain competitive from a compensation perspective, this tool is well suited to help you accomplish this goal. If you are not a comp expert, they have experts on hand that can help you through projects or just answer basic questions.
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Pros
  • Easy to use
  • Free version (if you sync your HR system) still valuable
  • Company-sourced versus employee
  • Well defined levels and scope for roles
  • Always adding more countries and data
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  • PayScale has been great for our organization for benchmarking market salaries and wages for our positions.
  • The service was great as well, in that we were able to send our job descriptions over to have our jobs matched with the market.
  • The market reports have been extremely helpful and are easy to understand, and being able to see a breakdown between total cash, base salary, and bonus has been great.
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Cons
  • Need more data, especially for more niche roles
  • Need more roles represented
  • Need more industries covered
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  • Pre-recorded webinars on product updates would be great. I know they offer webinars, but many times they do not work into my schedule so I miss them. If they had a section on the site for training on product updates or new features that I could view on my own time I think would help me utilize the tool even better.
  • The ability to add-in or take away elements in the EE comp report. Some things are just not relevant to a company. I know a new release recently came out on the EE comp report and I am not a fluent with it as I once was (this is where the pre-recorded webinar or a learning byte would be helpful), but previously there were 3 versions of the EE comp report you could use. If I could add-in or drop-out sections to customize it to my company it would be nice.
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Usability
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It is user-friendly and easy to learn.
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Support Rating
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Never had any issues with customer support as they are very responsive. The system is very reliable, therefore, we rarely interact with their customer support.
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Alternatives Considered
We have used or currently still use the others I listed. Others not found in TrustRadius include Ravio, Salary.com, and Figures.hr.
It is best practice in HR to use more than one source for compensation data and aggregate them together, which is what I do with Pave alongside other systems. I do consider Pave to be a better option compared to others, but I think the more compensation data you can get your hands on, the better.
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First of all, PayScale was by far the easiest tool to navigate and provided us with appropriate data. We had been working with Mercer for all of our compensation studies so the partnership with Mercer was attractive to us as well. I felt like I didn't get the best customer service with the other two products when we were in the decision stage. There was some pressure tactics that I didn't appreciate, and some unprofessionalism that seemed like red flags to me when discussing entering into a long-term contract. Not only was PayScale the best user interface for us, but they had our best interests in mind and were very professional to work with.
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Return on Investment
  • Reduced time to find reliable compensation data
  • Improved accuracy versus using other sources that are more crowdsourced
  • More informed decisions around compensation and how we decide on what base salaries to offer
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  • We wanted to ensure that we were able to support our compensation strategy and decisions with verifiable and trusted market data, and Payscale Insight has allowed us to do that. Now, compensation conversations with employees are more effective and transparent, enhancing our engagement and retention.
  • Additionally, we have been able to better train our managers to understand our compensation philosophy and how we can leverage it to improve performance and set effective goals for our employees.
  • Payscale Insight has become our main source for compensation data, eliminating the significant time investment it would previously take to bring it all together, review and make a decision.
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