About WageTruth
Salary data cited to the source, not the crowd.
WageTruth started with a frustration Eric ran into while trying to figure out whether a job offer was actually competitive. Every salary site he checked — Glassdoor, Payscale, Levels.fyi — gave a different number, built from whoever happened to submit their own pay anonymously, with no way to check who submitted it, when, or whether it was even accurate.
So he built something better. WageTruth is a free, no-account-required wage lookup that gives you the actual percentile distribution the U.S. government publishes for your occupation and metro area — and shows you exactly which BLS survey and O*NET dataset the number came from.
Eric spent years watching salary negotiations hinge on numbers nobody could actually verify — a Glassdoor average built from a few dozen self-reported submissions, treated like ground truth. He built WageTruth to replace that with the wage statistics the federal government already collects on every occupation in the country.
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How it works
Every tool on WageTruth is grounded in a documented, citable method — a published formula, an authoritative standard, or a well-established model. We don't approximate or invent numbers. If we can't cite a primary source for the logic, we don't publish the tool.
For WageTruth, the only sources that qualify are the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey and the Department of Labor's O*NET database — both named on the page, both dated, both re-verified against the published release before any figure goes live. No self-reported salary data is used anywhere on this site.
Our commitments
- Free, no sign-up required. Every tool on this site is free to use with no account, subscription, or paywall.
- We show our work. Every tool explains its methodology, cites its sources, and surfaces assumptions — so you can verify the logic, not just trust the output.
- Honest about limitations. Where precision is limited or assumptions are required, we say so. Tools compute; they don't replace professional judgment.
- Kept current. Tools that use figures that can change over time carry a “last reviewed” date and are treated as an ongoing maintenance responsibility, not a one-time build.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections, or suggestions: hello@wagetruth.com. Eric reads every message personally.