From base to bonus – manage total cash bands in Ravio

Managing total cash packages shouldn't need a PhD in Excel.

But for years, compensation teams have wasted hours exporting data, stitching together base and variable comp, and hoping the formulas don't break right before leadership asks for an update. Meanwhile, employees keep pushing for transparency, and reviews drag on weeks longer than planned.

It's broken. And today, we're fixing it.

For many teams, the problem isn’t just tedious maths – it’s split workflows. Benchmarks live in one tool, bands in another, and variable comp in a spreadsheet. The result? Slow cycles, inconsistent decisions, and no single source of truth.

Bands now gives you complete control over your compensation bands – whether base salary or total cash, so you can manage your compensation in one clear, defensible view.

Why this matters: comparable pay beyond base

When you’re managing comp, base salary may only tell half the story.

Take a Software Engineer on £70k base and an Account Executive on £45k base. Without variable data, they look worlds apart. But when you include bonuses and commission, both total £70k. Without that visibility, every decision is skewed.

This makes efficient management of total cash compensation nearly impossible. How do you ensure fair compensation across roles when you can only see part of the picture? How do you build defensible band structures when variable compensation lives in separate systems? How do you explain to leadership that your pay review excluded half the package?

You can't. Without visibility of the full package, pay reviews drag, fairness suffers, and leadership loses confidence in the process. That’s why we’ve expanded Bands — it now includes variable and total cash alongside base salary, giving you one clear, defensible view for faster, fairer decisions.

What's new in bands

Bands now unites base salary, variable, and total cash compensation so you can make faster, fairer and confident decisions with the full cash picture.

Whether it's commission-heavy sales roles, bonus-driven leadership teams, or your high-performing ICs with a fixed compensation, you can now:

See everything in one place:

• View total cash with clear base/variable breakdowns
• Spot how employees sit within their band – instantly
• Analyse pay equity across the whole package, not just base.

Build smarter bands:

• Auto-create total cash bands from your data
• Customise to your comp philosophy
• Support fixed and banded variable approaches.

Decide with confidence:

• Benchmark total cash against market rates
• Kill off time-wasting exports and manual calcs
• Share total cash bands with managers and employees.

How it works

You can manage your total cash picture in four simple steps; view, analyse, refresh and share.

View: See the total cash compensation picture 

Get instant visibility into how base and variable components combine. No more piecing together data from multiple systems – everything lives in one clear, unified view.

Analyse: Understand positioning across the market 

See exactly how employees distribute against total cash bands and identify opportunities to improve pay equity across your total cash compensation structure.

Refresh: Auto-create or update your bands with fresh market data

Generate complete total cash band structures from scratch using our auto-creation flow or upload your existing bands directly.

Share: Empower decisions across your organisation 

Share total cash, variable and base salary bands with managers and leadership, giving everyone the context needed to make fair, informed compensation decisions, fast.

Ready to ditch the spreadsheets?

Book a demo with a member of the team.