Salary checker for remote roles
What do remote postings for your role actually advertise? This checks the pay in live public postings, right now. It is honest about how small the sample is.
Read this first
- From live public postings, not market-wide. The numbers come from whatever remote postings Remotive and RemoteOK list at the moment you press the button. Many postings don’t state pay at all.
- Small samples are common. No median is shown until at least 5 matching postings state an annual salary. Below that you still see the individual postings.
- Remote roles only. Both sources are remote job boards. For city-based roles, use the salary check inside the HireWire app. It groups pay by country and city, and with a free Adzuna key adds postings from 13 countries.
How the numbers are worked out
This page uses the same code as the salary reality check in the HireWire app:
- Pay is read from the posting’s salary fields, or from salary text such as “$80k – $150k”.
- Each posting counts once, at the midpoint of its range. Figures that look hourly or monthly (under about $8,000 a year once converted) are left out.
- Titles are simplified: “Sr. Front-End Developer (Remote)” becomes level senior, role frontend engineer. Your role is matched against that simplified title.
- Currencies are converted with static, approximate exchange rates and rounded to the nearest thousand.
- Median and P25–P75 (the middle half of salaries) are shown once 5 or more postings state pay.
Why not just use a salary website?
Salary surveys and self-reported data cover far more people, and are the better guide to the whole market. Advertised pay answers a narrower question: what are employers offering in postings right now? That is useful before you apply, and in a negotiation. Use both.
Sources
Postings come from the public APIs of Remotive and RemoteOK, two of the job boards the HireWire app reads. Each row links to the original posting. These are the boards among HireWire’s feeds that both publish pay and allow a web page to read them directly.
FAQ
Is this salary data accurate?
It is exactly what the postings say, nothing more. It is a small, live snapshot of remote postings that state pay, not a survey of what people earn. Postings that disclose pay may not be typical.
Why does it say there is not enough data?
A median from 2 or 3 postings would be misleading, so no figure is shown until at least 5 matching postings state an annual salary. Try a broader role (“engineer” instead of “senior react engineer”), any level, and no location filter.
Can I check salaries for a city, like Berlin?
Not on this page: both sources here are remote job boards. The HireWire app groups pay by country and city too, using all of its feeds and the history kept in your browser. Most company career boards don’t publish pay, so adding a free Adzuna key (13 countries) makes the biggest difference there.
Is my search sent to HireWire?
No. Your browser asks the job boards directly. Remotive receives the role you typed as a search term; RemoteOK receives a plain request for its list. HireWire receives nothing, and these pages load no analytics.
Track salaries across 55 feedsThe HireWire app runs the same salary check on every posting from its 55 feeds (plus Adzuna, if you add a free key) and keeps a 180-day history in your browser, so the sample grows the longer you search. Free, no account.
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