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Our site provides personalized salary predictions with wisdom of the crowds. We recently built a scoring feature where you get higher scores for good salary predictions. We would like to get your feedback.

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Good luck guys. Will be really interesting to see how this aligns with actually salaries in the marketplace. Might be worth allowing users to give you their actual salary in the interest of tuning your understanding/algorithms.

i.e. The crowd thinks you should earn X. We think you should earn Y based on similar people. You currently earn Z.

Thank you very much, this is a great idea! We will definitely add a feature to opt-in to give your actual salary.

Agreed! My predicted salary from 10 predictions is about $24K lower than actual salary, and I'm happy to provide my salary information in-app.

Just connected my LinkedIn profile; how are you predicting salaries? Sharing my public profile with others and aggregating their salary estimates based on weighted criteria? I assume those with the closest estimates to actual salary have their estimates rated higher than others (based on your leaderboard here: http://salaryfairy.com/fairy/score)

Yes. We display anonymous profiles to our users and aggregate their predictions. Predictions based on weighted criteria is coming soon.

Excellent work. Something to consider would be to constrain salary estimates to the same industry based on LinkedIn profile endorsements my profile contains.

For example, I'm an IT professional. When I clicked "Predict salaries", a profile for someone in the financial industry was displayed. I have no idea what they should be making.

Thanks :) Scoring is one of the criteria we are looking into. We need to be careful not to bias predictions too much towards high scoring predictors. We are now filtering profiles by country. Once we get to a healthy user base, we will introduce more filtering options.

No problem! I've thought many times how to solve this problem, but all of the data is opaque :( Wish you guys well!

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