About TheJobsMarket
Almost every answer to “what does this job pay” is a single number with no source and no date. That number is a median. It throws away the thing you actually needed, which is how wide the range is and where in it you are likely to sit.
This site answers the question the way the underlying data does: as a distribution. What an occupation pays from the 10th to the 90th percentile, how much of that spread comes from where the work is rather than what the work is, what your employer is legally required to tell you and to pay you, and which way the demand for your kind of work is moving.
What is here
What jobs pay. Wage levels and the full percentile spread by occupation, location and level of experience, plus how to tell a salary source worth believing from one that has been copied between sites for years.
Getting paid more. Reading an offer, negotiating it, asking for a raise, and pricing the parts of a package that are not base salary — which is where two offers with identical base pay stop being comparable.
Pay rules and your rights. What an employer is required to do: post a range, meet a minimum, pay overtime, pay you correctly and on time.
Where the jobs are going. Which occupations are growing and shrinking, what the hiring indicators actually mean for someone job-hunting, exposure to automation, and layoff risk.
Plus five calculators that run on the same data as the articles, with the instructions on the page rather than a bare form.
Why it is built this way
Every figure names the survey or the statute it came from and the date we checked it. That is not a boast, it is a practical requirement: pay data goes out of date on an annual cycle and employment rules change mid-year, and a number you cannot date is a number you cannot use. Where we do not have a figure, the sentence that needed it does not appear.
The site is US-primary because the American wage data is unusually good and unusually free — an employer survey covering hundreds of occupations across every state and metropolitan area, published in full. International coverage is real but coarser, and we say which is which rather than implying the same resolution everywhere.
Who writes it
Three people, each writing only the part they are qualified to write, with the credential shown where it is relevant and not claimed where it is not. The full arrangement is on the editorial policy page, and the sourcing method is on how we source figures.
How it is paid for
Advertising, and in places affiliate links that are disclosed on the page carrying them. Nobody pays to appear here or to be described favorably. See the affiliate disclosure.