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So outside of a few large companies and a few types of jobs with fairly consistent job titles/responsibilities, Glassdoor is fairly poor for employees conducting their own salary research.

Have you found any services or tools that are more accurate that you'd recommend?

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I recommend looking up the company and job title on an h1b jobs database. There are several sites online that pull from public data. You get both start date and title information. It only shows base salary but the nice thing is that it is an accurate number.

What about for those of us with jobs with loose titles and widely varying responsibilities?

I've found two methods to be fairly accurate. Find the average for you job on Glassdoor and add 20%. Or find someone that has a similar job at the company and ask them what they make.

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