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Show HN: Salary Estimator Tool

infosalary.com

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About a year ago, with my brother, we started collecting salaries from job offers anywhere in the United States. We made a batch job that stored them in a small database. It has grown to more than 5 million data points, so we built infosalary.com, a data visualization tool to explore salaries in a nice way. You can search by job title, company, location, or any combination of them.

It’s all free.

Hoping it’s useful for anyone working in HR, planning to hire or looking for a new job.

Please let us know if any salary estimation seems off, or in case you have cool ideas for new features. Thanks!

The estimation algorithm doesn't seem to perform very well on outliers. I tried "senior software engineer" for my company in San Francisco and the salary estimate came out as half of what levels.fyi would've reported (never mind total comp).

Unfortunately I don't have a good gauge for other job types and in other locations, so I can't speak for how accurate the estimates for those seem to be.

Appreciate the feedback lhorie!

Yes, when the result has very few samples (or none) the estimation can be very unreliable sometimes.

I guess we should be careful in such cases, better explaining to the user that the estimation is based on a very small number of samples, so not reliable.

This is way off, I entered "software engineering" + "amazon" + "Seattle, WA" , it yields 108k, Amazon does lowball people , but this is way too low.

Senior Software Engineer at Google in San Francisco, CA $95,248 per year , also this one.

Thanks for noticing these two masterof0! We're working on an improvement to our job offers crawler that should add a lot more data related to software engineer salaries. On the other hand we'll try to improve the data presentation layer, to better explain the cases where the number of samples are not enough to give reliable data/results.

Yeah, no problem, just trying to help you QA-ing a bit :)

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