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See my numberYour number is grounded in government wage data and a model calibrated against published labor economics research.
Wages for 830 occupations across 393 U.S. metro areas, straight from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: 25th percentile through 90th.
Research shows workers judge pay against their current salary, not the market average. The model starts where you are, then corrects toward the market.
Job satisfaction, job search status, tenure, and local cost of living each move your number, in the direction the research says they should.
The gap between your number and your salary is what an employer would need to close to keep you. Below your number? That's leverage.
Where the data comes from: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release. Where the model comes from: reservation wage research, including Krueger and Mueller (American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016) and Jager, Roth, Roussille and Schoefer (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024).
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The free number is the start. The full report is for when you're actually negotiating.
Replacing one employee costs $50,000 to $100,000 once you count recruiting, ramp time, and lost output. PayTruth shows you, by role and location, what it would actually take to keep the people you're about to lose.
Aggregated, anonymized trends only. We never show an employer an individual worker's number, and worker inputs are never shared with their employer. That line does not move: it is the reason workers trust the tool and the reason the data is worth having.
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