I talked to Pave last year and bowed out after hearing how they do business. Their business model and their techniques could have changed since I last talked to them. At the time, customer companies give all their compensation data to Pave, including employee names, and then they use that to create compensation data across the list of their customers and share it. They were targeting startups, but I don't know if the…
> If I remember correctly, because they have your name, they also scrape LinkedIn data about you and try to get as much information about you as possible like job titles, etc.
I am not aware of Pave doing anything like this.
> I would not want my entire salary history to be shared with prospective employers so that they could definitively say "Well, this person got paid X in their previous position, we shouldn't pay more than 5% above that."
Pave does not share specific identifiable data like "John Doe got paid $X at EmployerCo".
Pave only shares aggregations like "people in San Francisco, with the title Senior Software Engineer, at companies between 100 and 500 employees, typically get paid $X at the 50th percentile, $Y at the 75th, and $Z at the 90th".
From Pave's website, https://www.pave.com/products/compensation-benchmarking-data:
> Benchmarking can never be traced back to an individual or employee.
I am not aware of any of these things having changed at any point.