Pave Market Data vs PayTransparency.app

Pave Market Data provides compensation benchmarks for companies making pay decisions. It covers base salary, bonus and variable pay, total cash compensation, and new-hire and ongoing equity. Pave collects information through persistent connections to HRIS, ATS, and equity management systems, then uses machine learning to match employee records to job architecture before aggregating and de-identifying the data. Collection occurs daily, while benchmark updates are published monthly. Coverage includes more than 200 job families; Pro includes more than 55 countries and 90 cities or metros. Pro adds custom peer groups, advanced equity data, and customized reports. Lite is described for startups with 1–200 employees and includes the overall U.S. market plus one additional market. Access requires customers to connect HR platforms, with supported providers including ADP, BambooHR, Gusto, Rippling, and Workday. Lite is free; Pro pricing is by quote. Pave says users cannot access competitor-specific compensation data and describes its data as aggregated and de-identified.

PayTransparency.app checks job postings against pay-transparency laws in US states, New York City, and the EU. Its free checker accepts pasted job descriptions or URLs without signup, while a free account unlocks bulk scanning across a careers board. The service extracts whether a posting includes a pay range, the range figures, benefits information, and remote status. It evaluates applicable laws using employee-count thresholds and effective dates, including city ordinances and the EU Directive, and cites violations. Results provide a verdict for each jurisdiction and statutory fine exposure, including per-posting penalty ranges and remote-role risk. Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby boards are supported, as are public careers pages through a generic scraper. Pro adds unlimited scans, nightly automated scanning, email alerts for new violations, posting history, PDF reports, unlimited team seats, and priority support. Pro costs $99 a month and has a 14-day free trial that requires no credit card to start; users can cancel at any time. The site says free-checker submissions are not stored. It also states that it is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.