Pay intelligence shouldn’t belong only to employers.
Págame began with the pay gap. Information about pay has never been shared evenly, and women have always had less of it while more rides on every conversation.
Working on that problem revealed a larger one. Employers have sophisticated systems for understanding labor value: compensation benchmarks, salary bands, market data, job architecture, internal equity analysis. Women don’t.
Págame is building the other side.
Lynette Correa-Velez, M.Ed.
Founder & CEO
Lynette built Págame after experiencing firsthand how difficult it can be to know whether your work is being fairly valued.
Lynette Correa-Velez, M.Ed. is the Founder and CEO of Págame, a Chicago-based worker pay intelligence company helping people understand their market value, recognize the cost of being underpaid, and make more informed decisions about their pay and careers.
A trained Career and Executive Coach with more than 20 years of professional experience, Lynette has spent her career helping people navigate work, leadership, career development and advancement through an equity-centered lens. Her expertise spans coaching, workplace learning, human resource development, career strategy and pay equity.
Her own experience with being underpaid helped shape the idea behind Págame. She understood firsthand how difficult it can be to work hard, build experience and advance professionally while still lacking a clear answer to a fundamental question: Am I being paid what my work is worth?
She built Págame to make that answer — and the intelligence needed to act on it — more accessible to workers.
Why she built Págame
Lynette built Págame after experiencing a problem many workers know well: doing the work, gaining experience and advancing professionally without having enough information to know whether they are actually being paid fairly.
She saw a larger information imbalance. Employers often have access to sophisticated compensation data, benchmarking and decision tools, while workers are left trying to piece together their value from job postings, salary websites, conversations and incomplete information.
Págame was built to change that imbalance by giving workers personalized pay intelligence that helps them understand what they may be worth, what staying underpaid may cost them, and what they can do next — built first around the pay experiences and decisions women face.
Experience & Recognition
- More than 20 years of professional experience
- Trained Career & Executive Coach
- Expertise in career development, workplace learning, human resource development, coaching and pay equity
- Member of the Equal Pay Chicago Coalition at Women Employed
- Selected for the BMO Fellowship for women fintech founders
- Founder programs through the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center and 1871 Chicago
- 2025 Empowering Latinas Award, United Latinas National
More programs and affiliations
Recipient of more than 20 awards and honors.
Founder and innovation programs
Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, 1871 Chicago, Chicago Innovation, Colorwave, The Ladder, Ageless Innovators and the Women’s Mentoring Co-Op.
Professional engagement
International Coaching Federation, Latinas in Tech Chicago and Chicago Innovation.
Education
M.Ed., e-Learning for Workplace Learning & Training
Human Resource Development focus
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
B.S., Business & Human Resource Management
Minor in Psychology
Lesley University
Lynette has also pursued doctoral study in DEI in Education, with a focus related to Human Resource Development.
“I built Págame because workers should not have to guess what their work is worth.”
What we believe.
The gap isn’t the same for everyone
For every dollar white (non-Hispanic) men earn, here’s what women earn nationally. The gap is widest for women of color, which is exactly who Págame is built to help.
Aggregate, de-identified figures: women’s median earnings against white (non-Hispanic) men. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year (2023), table B20017. Race and ethnicity never influence your number. If you choose to self-identify on your profile, that answer is kept apart from the pay engine and handled under the Privacy & Data Policy.
One conversation today. A career of them tomorrow.
Págame isn’t being built for one salary conversation. Your Pay Profile becomes the foundation for understanding how your economic position changes over time: what you are worth, the leverage you hold, and what staying, moving or learning would mean for your earnings.
You can check us, not just trust us.
Págame is built by Págame Project, LLC, in Chicago. A product that asks a woman to walk into a room and repeat its number owes her more than a promise that it is a good one — so three things are open to anyone who wants to look.
Something wrong, or something missing? Tell us.