Find out what the job actually pays.
In the average occupation, the best-paid tenth earn $53,000 more than the lowest-paid tenth. Same job title. Find out where in that range you sit, what moves you up it, and what your employer already owes you.
Registered Nurses
Half earn between the second and fourth marks. The single median everyone else quotes is the line in the middle.
Start with the question you actually have
Most pay questions come down to one of four. Pick whichever sounds like the one keeping you up.
What Jobs Pay
What does this job actually pay — not the median, the whole range, in your area, for someone at your level. And which salary sites to ignore.
See the pay data →Getting Paid More
You have an offer, or you want a raise. What to ask for, what the bonus and equity are really worth, and when to walk.
Read the guides →Pay Rules and Your Rights
Are you owed overtime? Was that deduction legal? What your employer must do — and the parts most people never find out about.
Check the rules →Where the Jobs Are Going
Is your job still here in ten years? Which work is growing, what AI actually changes, and how bad the market really is right now.
See the outlook →Three things a single median will not tell you
Each of these comes straight off the same federal series, and each is a question the one-number salary sites cannot answer at all.
How wide is the range in your job?
Software Developers earn between $105,210 and $171,980 across the middle half of the range, and the top tenth earns 2.6 times the bottom tenth.
Does the trade pay like people think?
Electricians earn between $49,430 and $83,940 across the middle half of the range, and the top tenth earns 2.54 times the bottom tenth.
Where does the middle actually sit?
Registered Nurses earn between $80,330 and $112,350 across the middle half of the range, and the top tenth earns 1.99 times the bottom tenth.
Run the numbers on your own job
Five calculators that take a couple of minutes and use your figures, not a national average.
Salary Benchmark
The full 10th-to-90th percentile range for an occupation in your metro, not a single median.
Open the tool →Cost-of-Living Comparison
What a salary in one city is worth in another, after regional prices and state tax.
Open the tool →Total Compensation Calculator
Base, bonus, equity, match, insurance and PTO resolved into one annual number. Two offers side by side.
Open the tool →Overtime Checker
Walks the salary and duties tests plus your state rule, then works out what you are owed.
Open the tool →International Pay Converter
Gross to net across countries at purchasing power parity, with employer contributions flagged.
Open the tool →Behind The Jobs Market
Pay is one of the few things about a job you can check from the outside before you commit to anything, and most people never do. Everything here exists to answer three questions: what your work pays, how to get more of it, and what your employer already owes you.
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The whole range, not one number
Where a figure is published we show every percentile from the tenth to the ninetieth, because the middle alone hides most of what you are asking about.
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Your figures, not a national average
The calculators run on the numbers you enter — your metro, your offer, your hours — rather than telling you what the average worker somewhere else receives.
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We say when it is not knowable
Where an answer genuinely is not published, we name the gap and the nearest real source instead of estimating a figure that would read as fact within a year.