About salary.run

The problem

When you walk into a salary negotiation, your employer already knows exactly what your role is budgeted for. You are guessing. That asymmetry costs workers — particularly early-career professionals, women, and underrepresented groups — tens of thousands of dollars over a career.

The most effective tool against this asymmetry is data. When you know what your peers are actually earning, you negotiate from a position of knowledge instead of anxiety.

Why we built salary.run

Existing platforms either require you to create an account (which creates fear of exposure), are locked behind paywalls, or are dominated by a handful of tech roles in Silicon Valley. We wanted something simpler and broader.

salary.run was built on three principles:

• Zero friction: Submit in 60 seconds. No account. No email. No verification theatre.
• Real anonymity: Not "anonymised after login" — genuinely no identity attached, ever.
• Global coverage: Not just FAANG in San Francisco. Finance in London, engineering in Singapore, consulting in Dubai.

Who runs this

salary.run is an independent project — not backed by recruiters, staffing agencies, or employers. We have no financial incentive to suppress data, inflate numbers, or expose users.

We are funded by the belief that transparency makes labour markets fairer. If we ever introduce revenue (e.g., non-personalised advertising or aggregated API access), we will be explicit about it here.

Our commitment

• We will never sell individual salary records.
• We will never share data with employers.
• We will never require login to browse or submit.
• We will always show the sample size behind every statistic.
• We will always honour removal requests.

Get in touch

Questions, feedback, or data concerns? Reach us at hello@salary.run.

Want to understand how we protect your data in detail? Read how it works.