What makes it different
Built for the two moments that matter — evaluating an offer, and setting a band.
P10 to P90 by role, level, region, and company size. Filter the way real offers get compared.
A short rubric maps your real scope of work to a common ladder — so a 'Senior' at your company is comparable across the industry.
Recent submissions count more. Stale data is flagged, not silently averaged in. Every chart shows when it was last updated.
Team plans include 5 seats and a shared workspace, so recruiters, hiring managers and comp partners work from the same live bands.
Upload your payroll once and get Directive (EU) 2023/970 reporting — pay gaps, quartiles, and every category above the 5% assessment threshold.
Draft a description with AI from the job family and level, keep it versioned in a searchable catalog, and publish it with the live pay range attached — never a stale copy-paste. Team plan.
How it works
Individuals get their benchmark by contributing. Employers get pay bands and equity audits by subscribing. The data compounds.
Submit your comp and score up to 4 offers a month against the live market.
Role, level, region, base, bonus, equity. Two minutes. Fully anonymous — never displayed individually.
Drop any offer into the evaluator and see exactly where it sits on the live market curve, with talking points to negotiate.
Up to 4 offer evaluations every month, free forever. Full market distributions and Ask EarnWell live in the employer plans.
Live benchmarks, pay bands, job descriptions, equity audits and Ask EarnWell.
Query the market by role, level, region and company size. Defensible P10–P90 ranges, plus a bands generator that turns them into publishable min / mid / max.
Upload internal comp. See where you deviate from market and where cohort gaps sit inside your org — regression-backed and exportable.
AI drafts a description from the job family and level, attaches the live pay range, and keeps every version in a searchable catalog. Team plan.
Built for teams that take pay seriously
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Regions covered
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Role families
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Ladder normalization
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Pricing
The dataset compounds when everyone contributes. That's why we keep it free for you.
Submit your comp. Score up to 4 offers a month against the live market.
Self-serve benchmarks for a single hiring manager or recruiter.
Live bands, job descriptions & pay equity for comp and HR teams.
Why We Built This
Every negotiation, every offer, every promotion cycle turns on one question — what is this role actually worth? And in tech, where levels differ by company and comp is split across base, bonus, and equity, that question is almost impossible to answer honestly on your own.
Existing tools optimize for volume of data points, not freshness. We think that's backwards. A three-year-old salary from a company that no longer exists doesn't tell you anything useful about the market you're negotiating in this quarter.
"Compensation transparency is a public good.
It should be built like one."
The real problem isn't just missing data — it's a trust gap between people and the companies they work for. Employees are left guessing whether an offer is fair. Employers are left guessing whether their pay bands will attract and keep the talent they need. Both sides are acting on hearsay, not evidence, and that asymmetry costs everyone: mis-hires, delayed negotiations, disengagement, and churn.
Transparency changes the conversation. When employees and employers share the same benchmark, negotiation stops being a zero-sum game and starts becoming a conversation about value, level, and growth. Employees can advocate for themselves with confidence. Employers can make offers that stand up to scrutiny and explain why they pay what they pay. Alignment is the outcome; verified numbers are the mechanism.
EarnWell exists so that a senior backend engineer in Berlin, a PM in Bangalore, and a compensation lead in New York can all query the same living dataset — anonymously, honestly, and with provenance visible on every chart.
Contribute yours. See where you stand. Then help the next person do the same.