How to filter jobs by minimum pay

Set one number, your salary floor, and HireWire filters and scores every posting against it, even when the posting is in a different currency. Here is exactly how it decides.

HireWire · last reviewed 2026-10-14

Set your floor

1. In Subscriber profile, pick the currency your floor is in: USD, EUR, GBP, INR, CAD, AUD, JPY, BRL, PLN, SGD, ZAR or MXN.
2. Enter your salary floor (annual), for example 120k, 95000 or 1.2m.
3. The ≥ Floor toggle in the wire toolbar switches on. Postings that don’t clear the floor disappear from the list.

In the console (press ` or Ctrl+K) the same thing is currency EUR and floor 85k. Type floor off to clear it. search rust --min=150k searches and sets the floor in one step. Note that it also updates your saved floor.

How a posting is compared

HireWire compares the top of the posting’s pay range (its maximum, or its minimum if only one figure is given) with your floor. Both are converted to US dollars first.

• A role listed at $90k–$130k clears a $120k floor, because $130k ≥ $120k. The range shows the employer can reach your number. Whether they will is a negotiation.
• A role listed at up to $110k doesn’t clear it.

In the match score, clearing the floor adds 12 points. Falling below it subtracts 18. The posting’s “Matches” or “Watch” notes say which applied.

Currency conversion

Conversion uses fixed, rough exchange rates built into the app (for example 1 EUR ≈ 1.09 USD and 1 GBP ≈ 1.27 USD), not live rates. That is fine for a floor, but don’t rely on it for borderline cases. If a role is within a few percent of your number, open it and check.

A posting’s currency comes from its source:

• Adzuna (with your key): the currency of the country you picked, such as GBP for the UK or EUR for Germany.
• Remotive, Jooble and HN “Who is hiring?”: read from the salary text. $, €, £ and ₹ (or USD, EUR, GBP, INR) are recognised. A bare “$” is treated as US dollars, so a CAD or AUD salary written with “$” is read as USD.
• RemoteOK: treated as USD.

European formats such as €75.000 – €95.000 are read correctly.

Postings with no stated pay

Many sources don’t publish pay in their feeds. That includes most company career boards (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Personio, Recruitee) as well as Arbeitnow, Jobicy and We Work Remotely. These show PAY N/A.

• With ≥ Floor on, postings with no stated pay are hidden, because HireWire can’t confirm they clear your floor.
• With ≥ Floor off, they are shown and lose 3 points, with “pay unstated” in the Watch notes. Postings below your floor are shown too, minus 18.

Tip: if your list looks thin after setting a floor, switch ≥ Floor off. The floor still shapes the ranking, and good unpriced roles at companies you like stay visible.

Hourly, daily and monthly rates

The floor is annual, and HireWire doesn’t convert pay periods. When it reads pay from text, it ignores figures below 15,000 to avoid picking up hourly rates and stray numbers. So $45/hour or €5,000/month counts as unstated. A large monthly figure written with a “k” (for example $20k/month) could be read as an annual $20k. For contract work, turn ≥ Floor off and judge the rate yourself.

Related filters

• Blocked locations hide postings whose location matches, for example a country you can’t work from.
• Blocked keywords push postings down 28 points each.
• Remote limits the wire to remote roles. It is on by default.

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