Comment by RayVR

The fundamental difference between something like Pave or Radford is that, AFAIK, they are simply providing companies with information.

I am not a lawyer, but I believe the fundamental issue with RealPage is that by entering into a service agreement with them, you agree not to violate their price “recommendation” and so you are centralizing actual pricing power into a single entity.

I believe RealPage has some way to negotiate out of this standard deal but it’s not common.

Companies likely insist on staying within certain pay bands for a whole host of legal and HR reasons but they aren’t getting a specific salary from Pave that they are contractually obligated to use in their offer.