Understand Job Levels
Pave's career tracks and job levels define a hierarchy of roles spanning individual contributors, managers, and executives. When you search for compensation benchmarks, you select a track and level to find the right match for your roles.
For details on how the job catalog is organized by function, blend, and family, see Explore the Pave job catalog. You can also download the full job catalog here.
Career tracks and levels
Executive
- E9: C-Level
- E8: Senior Vice President (SVP)
- E7: Vice President (VP)
Management
- M6: Senior Director
- M5: Director
- M4: Senior Manager
- M3: Manager
Professional (individual contributor)
- P6: Principal
- P5: Expert
- P4: Senior
- P3: Career
- P2: Developing
- P1: Entry
Support
- S3: Senior
- S2: Intermediate
- S1: Entry
Choosing the right level
The scope of responsibilities for a given title varies across companies. To match to the right level, review the detailed leveling guide here. The guide describes the scope, responsibilities, and expertise expected at each level, along with common job titles.
Comparing to other survey providers
Pave's leveling system maps to other common compensation survey frameworks, including Radford, Mercer/Comptryx, and Carta. If your company currently uses one of these frameworks, you can use the mapping to find the equivalent Pave level.
Pave, Radford, Mercer/Comptryx, and Carta all use a similar track structure (Executive, Management, Professional/IC, and Support), but the number and labeling of levels within each track differs.
Executive: Pave uses three levels (E7 through E9), Radford uses six (E1 through E6), Mercer uses three (ET1 through ET3), and Carta uses three (E9 through E11). Pave E9 (C-Level) corresponds to the top of the Radford executive range (E5-E6), Mercer ET1, and Carta E11. Pave E8 (SVP) corresponds to Radford E3-E4, Mercer ET2, and Carta E10. Pave E7 (VP) corresponds to Radford E1-E2, Mercer ET3, and Carta E9.
Management: Pave uses M3 through M6, Radford and Mercer use M1 through M6, and Carta uses M5 through M8. Pave M3 through M6 map directly to the same levels in Radford and Mercer (M3 = Manager, M4 = Senior Manager, M5 = Director, M6 = Senior Director). Radford and Mercer also include M1 and M2, which have no direct equivalent in Pave's Management track. Carta's management levels are offset: Carta M5 corresponds to Pave M3, Carta M6 to Pave M4, Carta M7 to Pave M5, and Carta M8 to Pave M6.
Professional: Pave uses P1 through P6, Radford and Mercer use P1 through P7, and Carta uses IC1 through IC3 and IC 4/5 through IC 6/7 and P8. Pave P6 (Principal) corresponds to Radford and Mercer P6 and Carta P8. Pave P5 corresponds to Radford P5, Mercer P5, and Carta IC 6/7. Pave P4 corresponds to Radford P4, Mercer P4, and Carta IC 4/5. Pave P3 corresponds to Radford P3, Mercer P3, and Carta IC3. Pave P2 corresponds to Radford P2, Mercer P2, and Carta IC2. Pave P1 corresponds to Radford P1, Mercer P1, and Carta IC1.
Support: Pave uses S1 through S3, Radford uses S1 through S5, and Mercer uses S1 through S4. Pave S3 (Senior) corresponds to the highest Support levels in Radford (S5) and Mercer (S4), with each lower Pave level mapping to the correspondingly lower level in the other frameworks. Carta does not have a separate Support track.