Why so many listings show no pay
Because the employer did not state any. We show pay as it was quoted and drop anything we cannot vouch for, rather than guessing.
Because the employer did not state any. Pay is a confidence gate here, not a converter: we show what was quoted, and where we cannot vouch for a figure we leave it out rather than inventing one.
- Zero means the board sent us nothing. It never means unpaid, so it is dropped rather than displayed.
- An implausible figure is dropped, not reinterpreted. We know 450 pounds is not an annual salary. We do not know whether it is a day rate, an hourly rate or a typo, and guessing would replace a wrong fact with an invented one, which is worse.
- A stated period is believed. A day rate stays a day rate. Annualising happens only inside the salary distribution, to make figures comparable to each other.
- Absurdly wide bands lose their top. When the upper figure is double the lower one or more, we show the lower figure alone. Bands that wide are overwhelmingly training providers advertising, rather than a real range.
The gap is regional, and it is severe
Most US listings state pay. In the UK it is a small minority. In Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands it is effectively zero, because employers there do not publish it. On a German search the salary panel will be empty or absent, and that is the data being honest rather than the feature failing.
It is also why the pay filter is never on by default, and why the control tells you how many listings each option would leave before you use it.
Where it stops
We cannot recover a figure an employer never published, and we will not estimate one in the place a real figure would go. Where there is enough comparable data we show a clearly separate estimate instead. See what a pay estimate is.
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- 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.
- Narrowing a result setThere are 12 ways to narrow a result set, and the count beside each option is what you would be left with if you clicked it.
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