Salary guides

What STEM Roles Actually Pay in the US

Each guide is built from live job postings that publish a pay range, not survey self-reports. Numbers move as employers post.

By role

Methodology

We parse the salary fields employers publish on their own applicant-tracking systems — Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday and ClinchTalent — and compute medians and quartiles over the roles matching each guide.

Because pay-transparency laws are state-level, the sample over-represents California, Colorado, New York and Washington. City guides apply a local index on top of the national band to correct for that.

All figures are annual base salary in USD. Equity, bonus and sign-on are excluded.

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