Pave Supercharges Market Pricing with Croner Partnership

Pave, the agentic operating system for compensation, today announced a data sharing agreement with The Croner Company, a premier compensation survey provider for the Digital Content, Entertainment, Gaming, Media, and Telecommunications industries.

Through this partnership, mutual clients can now load licensed Croner survey data directly into Pave’s Market Pricing product. This puts industry-specific Croner benchmarks, crafted with more than 45 years of experience, side-by-side with real-time compensation intelligence from 8,700-plus companies in Pave’s dataset. 

Importantly, each data source remains distinct and is governed by its own licensing terms, giving clients complete control to choose which sources they use or blend to price jobs and build competitive pay ranges.

Pave’s Market Pricing product, featuring AI-powered auto-smoothing of data, is already the workflow of choice for innovative compensation teams. Now, with the addition of Croner survey data for clients with licensed access, mutual clients can:

• Price their jobs using Croner's industry-specific benchmarks alongside Pave’s Market Data, toggling between sources as needed
• Build and manage pay ranges that draw on multiple licensed survey sources in a single workflow
• Leverage Pave's auto-smoothing AI to reduce market pricing projects from weeks to minutes across multiple data sources

"Market Pricing is where compensation teams make many of their most important decisions, and our vision is for an open data ecosystem where every data source a client uses is always available," said Matt Schulman, CEO of Pave. "Bringing Croner's 45 years of industry-specific benchmarks into Market Pricing for Croner survey participants, next to Pave's real-time intelligence from 8,700-plus companies, is exactly what that looks like in practice. Clients should not have to choose between the data sources they trust; they should have them all in one place."

"Our clients put significant energy into participating in Croner surveys, and they deserve to get the most out of that investment," said Gabriel Barkin, Director of Operations, for The Croner Company. "This agreement with Pave makes it easy for mutual clients to work with our benchmarks while gaining real-time insights inside a powerful Market Pricing environment. It provides a stronger tool for the compensation teams we collectively serve."

The agreement covers Croner's full suite of surveys. Mutual clients with active Croner licenses can begin loading their Croner survey data into their secure instance of Pave Market Pricing immediately.