How It Works

No account. No email. No login. We ask only for your compensation details — company, role, location, experience, and pay.

We deliberately do not collect your name, work email, LinkedIn, or any identifier. There is no session cookie tied to your submission. Once you hit submit, there is no technical link between you and the data.

Each submission is stored as a standalone record with no user ID, device fingerprint, or IP address attached to it. Our database schema has no "users" table.

Optional demographic fields (gender, ethnicity) are stored in aggregate only and are never surfaced individually — they are used solely to generate diversity statistics across large sample sets.

We use a combination of automated range checks and community reporting to flag outliers:

• Submissions that fall outside 3 standard deviations from the role median are flagged for review.
• Entries with implausible combinations (e.g., $0 base salary for a senior engineer) are not published.
• We supplement user submissions with aggregated public sources (e.g., publicly reported data from levels.fyi and similar platforms) to provide baseline percentile context.

We show individual anonymized entries alongside aggregated statistics per company and role:

• Individual entries: Shown without any name, email, or profile. Company, role, location, level, and pay only.
• Percentiles (P10 / P25 / P50 / P75 / P90): Computed across all submissions for a role at a company. Only shown when there are at least 5 data points.
• Entry count: Always visible so you know how much data backs a figure.

No. Here is why:

• We never share raw data with any employer, recruiter, or third party.
• There is no login, so there is no account for an employer to subpoena or request.
• We do not log or store IP addresses with submissions.
• If you are in a very small team and your specific role/level/location combination is unique, we recommend generalising your location (e.g., use the state rather than a small city) before submitting.

If you submitted data and wish to have it removed, email privacy@salary.run with the approximate date, company, and role you submitted. We will remove the record within 30 days. Because we store no identity with submissions, we cannot proactively find your entry — but we will process all reasonable removal requests.