How RoleHue numbers are built

1. Public salary records

U.S. Department of Labor filings disclose the base salary employers committed to pay for specific roles in specific cities. These are legal documents, not self-reported guesses. They skew toward employers who file them, and they reflect base salary at filing time, not negotiated total compensation. We label them as filings.

2. Official government baselines

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes annual wage estimates by occupation and metro area. Where coverage exists, we show the official median next to our data so you can compare both.

3. Anonymous submissions from people like you

No account required. No name, no email, no employer ID stored with your salary. This source is growing: we are in an early data stage and we say so on every page where the sample is small.

What we compute

For each role and city we show the 25th, 50th and 75th percentile of available data points. A page only shows benchmarks when it has at least 10 data points. Below that, you see an early-stage notice instead of a number we would not trust ourselves.

What we filter

Every submission passes automated integrity checks: spam and bot filtering, rate limiting, plausibility screening against official wage ranges for that occupation. Implausible outliers are held out of the stats.

What we never do

• No synthetic data points
• No "verified" labels on records we cannot verify
• No selling your data

Free to use.