Pay check

What you see

• The middle: half of comparable ads pay less than this, half pay more.
• The middle half: the lower quarter and the upper quarter. Half of all comparable ads fall between these two numbers.
• Your offer, on the band, with a verdict: below most ads, below the middle, above the middle, or top quarter.
• The share of ads that state the pay at all, and a table of every family in the city.

Where the numbers come from

findjobs reads the job ads published in Georgia every day. For Pay check we take the ads that are live now, exclude gigs and demo listings, and keep those that state a monthly salary. Where an ad gives a range we take its midpoint. The figures are grouped by role family (the same families as the findjobs board) and by city.

A family shows a band only when at least eight live ads state pay. Below that a median is noise wearing a number's clothes, so we show nothing rather than something misleading.

How to read it

1. Pick the city and the family you are hiring for.
2. Move your offer with the plus and minus buttons, in steps of 100 lari.
3. Read the verdict. "Below the middle" means more than half of comparable ads offer more; "top quarter" means fewer than one in four do.

What it does not tell you

• What people actually earn. Ads say what companies offer; the Salary survey, when it opens, says what companies pay.
• Pay for a specific title. Families are broad on purpose: a title with three ads has no reliable band.
• Net pay. Ads in Georgia usually state net; the suite shows what the ads state and labels it as such.

Counting

Counts are before cross-board de-duplication: about one ad in ten is the same job posted on two boards. Pay bands are not affected, because a duplicate carries the same salary; the share of ads that state pay is affected very little.

Figures are recomputed every half hour. The time of the last computation is printed under the table.