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Buffer.com is famously open as well, if you like this kind of stuff.

Revenue: https://buffer.com/metrics

Expenses: https://buffer.com/transparent-pricing

Salaries of every employee (which seems like PII to me): https://buffer.com/salaries

And more: https://buffer.com/open

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Those are killer salaries for the ones not in the US. Imagine earning $160k USD in Morocco, Nigeria or Panama. 99.9th percentile.

There is a well funded US company that pays the same rate to everyone regardless of where they live (or at least did when I interviewed with them several years ago). Unfortunately when I received the offer it was too low to consider vs my other offers because I had no plans to move out of the States but the company had employees living like kings and queens in Vietnam and similar countries

It looks like it's a base and then they calculate cost of living rather than base your salary on the local cost of labor.

That's pretty decent. DuckDuckGo I think just gives a flat value to everyone.

Interesting that the pricing page (and so I'm guessing the other data) hasn't been updated since 2022.

> Salaries of every employee: https://buffer.com/salaries

Reminds me of Frappe (ERPNext) letting employees choose their own pay: https://frappe.io/blog/culture/choosing-your-own-pay-how-doe... / https://archive.vn/o7NtE

... which ended being, well ... eventful: https://frappe.io/blog/culture/in-the-aftermath-of-exuberanc... / https://archive.vn/BRaQc

/open was popularized by Pieter Levels as well, there are quite a few of these sorts of companies.

$160K for a software engineer? I don't even get close to that number.

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