Are salary estimates accurate?

Are Glassdoor and Indeed salaries accurate?

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Within the Tech forums, part of the Community Boards category; I know you don't pay someone who is not qualified to write about you. I just got my annual review at my . I just got my annual review at my new job. The company is paying me a lot more than the one I used to work at. I am thinking of quitting my job and looking for a job that pays me more. I really have no idea what I'm worth on glassdoor and indeed.

Are you a full time or part time worker? Part-time employees are paid on a "pro rata" basis based on the hours they work in any given pay period. When you are being paid on a "pro rata" basis, you are always paid a flat rate regardless of the amount of work you do. Thus, if you work 30 hours in a pay period, you are still only being paid the same rate. It is up to the company to decide what they feel your hourly rate should be.

If you were paid hourly, you would be paid a certain rate for each hour of work (or "piece" of work) you did. This could be 30, 60, or 90 or whatever depending on how many hours you worked that day.

My advice to you is to find the average rate of pay of all your coworkers and base your salary on that. In many companies, a salaried employee will receive a salary that is equal to the hourly rate that they have been paid on in the past. The average of your coworkers will be a better guide for you.

Some companies are now offering "solutions" such as PayScale or SimplyHired.

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Which salary website is most accurate?

I have about 20 jobs of which at least 10 of them are in the US.

I have a rough idea of what they should earn, but not much. I would like to be able to say "This is how much I would like to earn per year to get to my targets". Then I want that website to go to work.

When I have found sites such as glassdoor and monster.com there seems to be a large disparity in what people were paid.

I guess there could be 3 possibilities here: 1) The person in charge at each company who set these figures knew what the correct answer was (the higher the number) and only that person knew. 2) The person in charge at each company just entered the highest number. So either it's not their decision to set the salary or they don't know the answer.

3) Everyone, including the person in charge, really knows the salary for the job. I think it's unlikely that this is the third option, so my question is which one is most likely? Is this an impossible question to answer? Option 1 sounds unlikely. If #2 is right, then every company must have come to the same conclusion. In that case, it's also very unlikely that every single person involved is clueless. Maybe the first line boss comes up with the figure for the company and then submits it for approval to others. But if everyone participates then it should be the same, except maybe the first line boss gets bonus considerations. Option 3 sounds also unlikely because you cannot be sure that everybody knows that number. Unless you can be convinced of that, I would expect option 2 to be the most likely explanation for your finding.

Are salary estimates accurate?

I read an article that said that the salary estimates of a job, whether it is in the media, or some other field, are not very accurate.

I'm sure that's true for a lot of people, but I am interested in knowing how much of a range you are able to give a job you are interviewing for.

I guess what I'm really looking for is: Is it possible to get a good salary estimate based on job titles, companies and industries? No. Some of the best salaries are out of reach of the general public.

I think that there is a lot of truth to that statement. It's not about the company as much as it's about the person.