How to Find Your Salary & Market Value

5 ways to find your market value, aka how much you’re worth.

1. Go to salary finder websites like salary.com, glassdoor.com or levels.fyi (for tech).

2. Go to job boards like Indeed.com or LinkedIn to see the pay range for comparable jobs they’ve posted (if applicable).

3. A bit unorthodox, but ask your fellow peers how much they’re making.

4. Apply for jobs, go on interviews, and get offers. Try not to share your pay expectation (and definitely not your current pay) so that the hiring manager can determine your salary based on the value you can bring to the company, not based on the norm.

Things to consider so you compare apples to apples

• Job titles can vary tremendously across different companies and industries; therefore, look at the job description to determine which job matches your skillset, abilities, and potential.

• Salaries also vary across locations (big city vs. small town), industries (tech vs. nonprofit), and the size of the company. Typically, companies establish a salary percentile against the market so you can’t expect a smaller company to pay at the same percentile as conglomerates like Facebook. For example, a smaller company may pay a project manager at 40% the market rate, whereas Facebook may pay 90% the market rate.