As companies grow, compensation becomes more than just a number—it becomes a reflection of your values, talent strategy, and business goals. That’s why Carta Total Compensation is evolving to give you more flexibility, control, and strategic alignment as you scale.
There are two powerful features to help you tailor compensation to your unique philosophy: Custom Paybands and Notional Equity Value Benchmarks.
Custom paybands
Carta benchmarks are powered by the industry’s largest private market dataset—but internal context matters, too.
With Custom Pay Bands, you can define and manage salary and equity ranges based on your own compensation philosophy.
Whether you’re localizing pay, implementing function-specific bands, or designing a custom leveling framework, Custom Pay Bands let you operationalize your comp philosophy within Carta.
The result? A program that’s grounded in industry data, but customized to how you hire, reward, and grow talent.
Notional equity value benchmarks
For later-stage companies, Carta offers Notional Equity Value Benchmarks based on dollar values, not just ownership percentages.
These benchmarks apply to companies with post-money valuations of $500M–$1B and $1B+, using 4-year new hire grant values calculated from share count and preferred price.
This view supports better alignment with the expectations of executives, board members, and candidates—bringing added clarity to equity conversations at scale.
Why this matters:
With these features, Carta Total Compensation gives you flexible tools to shape a compensation strategy that’s competitive, intentional, and built for long-term growth.
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