What a pay estimate is
Where the employer stated nothing, we sometimes show what comparable postings paid, on a deliberately different-looking card.
When an employer stated no figure at all, some listings show an estimated range instead: what comparable postings in our own index paid for that kind of role in that place.
- It appears on a dashed, neutral card headed with the fact that the employer did not state pay.
- It shows a low-to-high range per year, a median, how many postings it was drawn from, and the phrase it matched.
- It says, in as many words, that it is a Jobzyl estimate and not the employer’s figure.
It never appears next to a stated salary. A second number arguing with the employer’s own is worse than no number, so the moment a real figure exists the estimate is not even consulted. The styling is deliberately different for the same reason: skimming should never turn our arithmetic into their offer.
Estimates are built only from figures employers actually stated. Where a board’s own model produced the number, it is excluded, because a lookup trained on another model’s guesses and presented as measurement is two levels of fabrication.
Where it stops
It is a median and a range drawn from other postings, not an offer, and coverage is uneven. It reaches a majority of unlabelled US listings, a minority of UK ones, and none at all in the European markets that publish no pay for it to learn from. Where there is not enough comparable data, you get nothing rather than a thin guess.
Related articles
- Why so many listings show no payBecause the employer did not state any. We show pay as it was quoted and drop anything we cannot vouch for, rather than guessing.
- Salary insightsWhen at least 30 listings state pay, the results summary shows the median and middle range, and how many listings it is based on.
- Where results come fromJob boards and national employment services, other public job sites, and openings pulled straight from companies' own careers pages.
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