The company across the table knows the market rate for your job. You are guessing at it. Nine questions, about two minutes. Nothing is published yet. A country needs 60 answers before its median means anything, so the early ones count for most.
About two minutesAnonymousNo account, no employer names
Where would you land?
Not enough answers yet
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This is where your salary gets placed against everyone else's. It stays empty until a country clears 60 responses, since a median over six people isn't a median worth printing, and we'd rather show nothing than something invented.
Be one of the first.
Add your numberPay in this industry stays secret because everyone assumes everyone else already knows. Almost nobody does.
The offer at the next company is the first honest signal a lot of people ever get about their own market rate, and by then the gap has been running for three or four years. Nobody sends you a letter when you fall behind.
Starting a few thousand under does not stay a few thousand. Every raise is a percentage of it, every bonus is a fraction of it, and the next employer asks what you make now. A small gap set early keeps paying out for the rest of a career.
Compensation teams buy benchmark data. Recruiters have placed forty people in your role this year and know exactly where you sit. That data exists and it is priced for employers. It is simply not sold to you.
The only reason engineers do not have this is that engineers do not tell each other. Which makes it a two-minute problem, and one of the very few where doing the selfish thing and the useful thing are the same action.
No drip-feed, no premium tier, no email wall. The only thing between you and the data is how many people have answered.
Medians and quartiles by country, level and experience, so "am I underpaid" stops being a feeling and becomes a percentile. Cost-of-living adjusted if you want it, raw if you don't.
Senior backend, Go, 200-person fintech, Lisbon, hybrid. Narrow it to your exact seat and walk in with a quartile instead of a hunch. Filter until the sample thins below 5 and we say so instead of guessing.
The full anonymised dataset as CSV under CC BY 4.0. Plot it, audit it, argue with it. Rebuilt nightly.
Every question, in order. Nothing else appears once you start.
The one optional extra: after you submit, you can leave an email to hear when the results publish. It goes to a separate database with no link back to your answers, which also means we can never email you about your own numbers. That’s the trade, and it’s structural, not a policy.
Employee salaries publish at 60 answers, contractor day rates at 25. Enough, in each case, for the median to mean something. The two are never averaged together: a contractor’s gross carries social contributions an employer would otherwise pay.
| Country | Employee median | Contractor day rate | Answers |
|---|---|---|---|
| BelgiumEUR | 58 more to publish | 18 more to publish | 9 |
| United KingdomGBP | 58 more to publish | 22 more to publish | 5 |
| CzechiaCZK | 59 more to publish | – | 1 |
| GermanyEUR | 59 more to publish | – | 1 |
| FinlandEUR | 59 more to publish | – | 1 |
| LithuaniaEUR | 59 more to publish | – | 1 |
| NetherlandsEUR | 59 more to publish | – | 1 |
| RomaniaRON | 59 more to publish | – | 1 |
| SwedenSEK | 59 more to publish | – | 1 |
| HungaryHUF | – | 24 more to publish | 1 |
| ItalyEUR | – | 24 more to publish | 1 |
Every answer makes the next engineer’s negotiation less of a guess. Yours included.
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Nothing is being advertised anywhere and there is no budget behind this. It reaches the next engineer because somebody forwarded it, or it does not reach them at all.
whatweearn is an anonymous salary survey for engineers in Europe. Nine questions, about two minutes, and you find out what people with your job, level and country are actually paid. Your employer already knows that number. https://whatweearn.eu/
Two minutes, and you stop guessing at your own market rate.
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