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Ask HN: What resources do you use to lookup salaries?

14 points by bsvalley ↗ HN
Anyone can create a "fake" account on glassdoor and record a salary for any given company. Linkedin Premium feature is as bad as glassdoor. Sometimes you see the salary mentioned in a job description so you can compare with linkedin's suggested salary. They're off by $40k sometimes!

So what do you use to get an "accurate" salary range for a given position/title at a given company?

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spraveenitpro
Best way would be to contact someone who works in that company and ask them for their salary/position/experience.
johnny313
How many people would respond honestly to this question if asked by an acquaintance?
bsvalley
I second that. To me this fall into the same "fake" sources...
duxup
Yeah I wouldn't tell a semi stranger... maybe not a friend.
[dead] squiguy7
I take all the sites that list salary information with a grain of salt but I think Paysa [0] is pretty good.

[0]: https://www.paysa.com/

reducesuffering
Levels.fyi and Blind app. Definitely the most up to date and accurate.
Peroni
I've recently launched http://honest.work/.

Right now, it's simply a job board where every vacancy must display a numeric salary range. In time, as we expand the features and functionality, we aim to collect significant, accurate data that will hopefully provide a more direct insight into existing salary levels across multiple skillsets and industries.