The Pave job catalog is the taxonomy that organizes every role in Market Data. When you search for compensation benchmarks, you navigate the job catalog to find the role you want to benchmark. Understanding how the catalog is structured helps you find the right match for your roles and interpret the data you see.

The Pave job catalog is the taxonomy that organizes every role in Market Data. When you search for compensation benchmarks, you navigate the job catalog to find the role you want to benchmark. Understanding how the catalog is structured helps you find the right match for your roles and interpret the data you see.

## How the job catalog is organized

The job catalog uses a three-level hierarchy:


1. **Function**: A broad area of work (for example, Engineering, Sales, Marketing)
2. **Family blend**: A group of related job families within a function (for example, Software Engineering, Sales Engineering)
3. **Job family**: A specific role type within a blend (for example, Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer)

When you view benchmarks, you can select data at the family blend level (aggregated across all families in the blend) or drill down to an individual job family for more specific data.

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## Functions

The job catalog includes 16 functions. Each function contains multiple job family blends, and each blend contains one or more job families.

| Function | Example family blends |
|----|----|
| Creative | Graphic Design, Copywriting |
| Customer Support | Customer Support, Customer Success |
| Data | Data Science, Data Engineering |
| Engineering | Software Engineering, DevOps Engineering |
| Finance | Accounting, Finance |
| Healthcare and Biotechnology | Clinical Operations |
| Human Resources | People Operations, Recruiting |
| Information Technology | IT |
| Leadership | (Executive and leadership roles) |
| Legal | Legal |
| Manufacturing | Manufacturing |
| Marketing | Product Marketing, Content Marketing |
| Operations | Business Operations, Project/Program Management |
| Professional Services | Professional Services |
| Sales | Sales, Account Management |
| Supply Chain and Logistics | Supply Chain |

To see the complete catalog with every function, blend, and family, download the job catalog from Market Data (see "Download the job catalog" below).

## Tracks and levels

Each job family in the catalog has associated tracks and levels that represent career progression. Tracks define the type of role, and levels indicate seniority within that track.

There are four tracks:

* **Support** (S1-S3): Roles that provide operational or administrative support
* **Professional** (P1-P6): Individual contributor roles
* **Manager** (M3-M6): People management roles
* **Executive**: Senior leadership, including VP and C-level (C1-C3) roles

Not every job family supports every track and level. For example, Software Engineering is available across Professional (P1-P6) and Manager (M3-M6) tracks, while a more specialized family like Copywriting may only be available at Professional levels. The job catalog shows which tracks and levels are available for each family.

## Browse and search the job catalog

In Market Data, you can find job families in two ways:

**Browse the catalog menu**: Open the job catalog menu to see the full hierarchy. Functions appear at the top level. Expand a function to see its family blends, then expand a blend to see individual families. Each family has a colored indicator showing whether benchmark data is available:

* A blue indicator means the family is **searchable** and has benchmark data available
* A gray indicator means the family is in the catalog but does **not** yet have sufficient data for benchmarks

**Search by name or job title**: Use the search bar to find a family by name (for example, "Software Engineer") or by a job title your company uses (for example, "Full Stack Developer"). Pave matches your search to the most relevant families in the catalog.

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## Searchable and supported families

The job catalog includes more families than Pave currently reports benchmark data for. A family's status depends on whether enough companies and employees are mapped to it to meet Pave's data accuracy standards:

* **Searchable**: The family has enough data to report compensation benchmarks. You can select it and view benchmark data in Market Data.
* **Supported (not yet searchable)**: The family exists in the catalog, and Pave is actively matching employees to it, but it does not yet have enough data to meet accuracy standards. Data from these families is included in the associated family blend's aggregated benchmarks.

As more companies submit data and Pave's dataset grows, additional families become searchable.

## Download the job catalog

You can download the full job catalog as an Excel file directly from Market Data. The download includes:

* **Job catalog**: The complete hierarchy of functions, family blends, and job families with descriptions and data availability status
* **Job matrix**: A detailed mapping of families to tracks and levels
* **Historical job matches**: A mapping between the current catalog and previous versions, useful if your company matched roles to an earlier version of the catalog

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## FAQ

### What happens when I select a family blend instead of an individual family?

When you select a family blend, Market Data shows aggregated benchmark data across all families within that blend. This gives you a broader view of compensation for that group of roles. Selecting an individual family shows data specific to that one role type.

### What if my role doesn't match any family in the catalog?

Search by the job title your company uses. Pave's search matches titles to the most relevant families. If you cannot find a close match, select the family blend that best represents the role's function to see aggregated data for that group.

### How often does the catalog change?

Pave updates the job catalog periodically to add new families, refine descriptions, and promote supported families to searchable status as data density increases. When the catalog is updated, the Excel download includes a mapping between the previous and current versions so you can see what changed.

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