Pave’s career tracks and job levels define a hierarchy of employees spanning professional individual contributor, management, and executive roles. Starting at the senior-most level of an organization, Pave’s career tracks and job levels are as follows:

Pave’s career tracks and job levels define a hierarchy of employees spanning professional individual contributor, management, and executive roles. Starting at the senior-most level of an organization, Pave’s career tracks and job levels are as follows:

**Executive Career Track**

* E9: C-Level
* E8: Senior Vice President (SVP)
* E7: Vice President (VP)

**Management Career Track**

* M6: Senior Director
* M5: Director
* M4: Senior Manager
* M3: Manager

**Professional Individual Contributor Career Track**

* P6: Principal
* P5: Expert
* P4: Senior
* P3: Career
* P2: Developing
* P1: Entry

**Support Career Track**

* S3: Senior
* S2: Intermediate
* S1: Entry

The scope of responsibilities of titles varies at different companies, and customers should reference the leveling guide below to understand how the scope, responsibilities, and expertise of their jobs match to Pave’s tracks and levels.

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Job Levels

Advanced Equity

Global Location Insights

Market Data Pro

How to Search for a Benchmark

Market Data Compensation Database Coverage

Market Data Methodology Overview

Market Data 101

Consistency Labels

Job Families

Calculated Benchmarks

Compensation Types

Data Collection and Aggregation

Percentiles

Filters

Pave's Data

Consistency Labels FAQ

Data FAQs

Calculated Benchmarks FAQ

Location and Global Data FAQs

Equity Practices FAQs

Market Data FAQs

Market Data

Market Data Connections Set up

Market Data Connections Overview

Integrations 101

Integrations

Adding Columns

Team View Overview

Team View Column Configuration

Team View Customizations

Re-ordering Columns

Deleting Columns

Team View Settings

Team View

Comp Planner Configurations Overview

Compensation Planner 101

Getting Started - Compensation Planner

Compensation Planner FAQs

Cycle Specific Permissions

Employee Eligibility

Step 1: Initial Cycle Setup

First-Class Columns

Using Handlebars Formula for Calculated Columns

Columns

Step 2: Column Configuration

OTE Planning Configuration Guide

What is OTE Planning?

Step 3: OTE Planning

Am I able to update or change approval chains during a cycle?

Updating Approval Chains

Compensation Cycle Data Upload

Step 4: Data Management

How can I configure market adjustment recommendations for employees?

How can I configure variable raise recommendations for employees?

Recommendation Logic

What are Recommendations?

Step 5: Recommendation Logic

Budgets

Budget Dashboard

Top Down Budgets: In-app Configurations

Step 6: Budget Confirmation

Planning Windows Setup Guide

Monthly & Hourly Pay

Planning Windows Overview

Employee Compensation History Popout

UI Toggles

Filtering & Sorting

Approval Statuses

Step 7: Planner Experience

Smart Flags

Compensation Outliers

Manager Compression Flag

Vesting Drop Flag

Step 8: Controls & Governance

Peers Overview

Cycle Outcomes

Value Rounding in Compensation Planning

In App Reward Letter Editor

Reward Letters

Peers Configuration Guide

Cycle Progress Dashboard Overview

Other Cycle Actions

 Compensation Planner

Custom Role Creation Guide

Logging In

Creating an Account

How to add a colleague to Pave’s Market Data Platform

Market Data Role Management

Why does it matter to get levels and role families right?

SSO Configuration Guide

Account Setup

Contact Us

How much does Pave Market Data access cost?

How does Pave Work?

Intro to Pave

Pave 101

Compensation Philosophy

Total Compensation

Compensation 101

The Stock Option Lifecycle

ISO Tax Implications

The Basics of Stock Options

The Confusing AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax)

ISO Strategies

An Overview of How Stock Options Work

Equity 101

Account Creation Troubleshooting and FAQs

How to Benchmark Executive Compensation

Login Troubleshooting and FAQ

How does company size affect which department, job family and job level I should choose?

How does Pave determine a role level and role family?

What are Job Levels, Departments and Job Families? Why are they important?

Troubleshooting Rippling Zero Records Error

What Market Data Connections does Pave currently support?

FAQs

Getting Started

Manually Create New Band Sets

Pay Types: Calculated TDC, Annual Equity, and Refresh Equity

Band Sets

Employee Distribution in Bands

Editing Bands

View changes

Upload/Download Bands

Unmatched Employees

Calculated Columns

Managing & Reordering Calculated Columns

Bands Set Audit Log

How to duplicate band sets

Survey aging

Edit and apply benchmarks

Set weights and logic

Map data sources to jobs

Supported survey providers

Manage Pave data sources

Manage survey data sources

Benchmarks overview

Step 2: Benchmarking

Pay Zone Manager

Job Architecture 101

Grades

Setting up Company Job Architecture

Company Job Architecture

Step 1: Build Foundation

Generate Bands from Market Data

Bulk & Manually Associate Market Data to Bands

Step 3: Update Ranges

Generate Bands for New Jobs in Your Job Architecture

Compare Bands

Relative Permissions

Advanced Filters

Ongoing Management & Analysis

Market Pricing

Option Driver Deprecation FAQs

Option Driver

Option Impact Deprecation FAQs

Option Impact

Option Impact & Option Driver

Executive Reporting Dashboard

Cycle Monitoring and Reporting

Building Market-Based Compensation Bands

Employee Groups

Cycle Configuration

How does Recommendation Logic work?

Can I impersonate another user in one page while having other Pave tabs open?

Am I able to change another user’s permissions or login credentials while impersonating?

Job Levels

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