Man, no thanks.

I've had a really hard time figuring out what "market" is for my position, seniority, and location. I used to use the Wealthfront calculator but it was shut down, and it looks like they had a hard time keeping it up to date. I love the approach of "give your information to get information" to build the data set. That makes this the most reliable source I've checked so far. I didn't expect them to have so many data points for my role but it's cool to see that they've already gotten a number of responses already. The distribution seems about right. Also like the anonymous forums. Looking forward to seeing where this goes!

Liora thanks for the submission, and hello fellow Hunters :) It's Jason Nazar, the co-founder and CEO of Comparably. We've built this product to make work better for everyone, by making compensation and culture dramatically more transparent. We’re lead by a team of 4 co-founders including George, Mike, & Yadid who have been building tech companies for the past 15 years (Docstoc, Yammer, Geni, DebtMarket, Investedin, Myspace, Intuit, Ebay); we’ve seen the good and bad of companies large and small… we want to give more power back to employees, close the gender pay gap, and make company cultures more transparent. Everything is 100% private & anonymous, and we’ll never share your personal data. We'd love your feedback on the product. If you have questions or comments, you can email me personally at JasonNazar@comparably.com. You can also tweet me @jasonnazar or @comparably Join us in making work better and more transparent for everyone, let’s do this together.

Looks like there's not too much data in there yet. It looked skewed way too high based on every other resource I've seen.

I like the product, any plans to expend to other location besides the U.S?

A huge pain point in the tech industry. Comparably has the potential to not only take on Glassdoor, but also tap into a percentage of LinkedIn's market share. Nice work gentlemen!

Awesome work Jason and team! What was it like launching at LAUNCH? Any highlights?

What if I don't currently have a salary or a previous salary? I don't want to add spam to your database.

Congrats on the launch @jasonnazar! This is awesome. Just signed up, the onboarding was a bliss. I'm loving the Discussions tab around my specific role. Look forward to learning more about the data around culture and what people look for when interviewing at new companies. Cheers!

Yelp 🙄

I'm surprised that they were able to raise 6.5m, what's the business model for the company?

Hey Jason! How've you been? I love what this sort of transparency could mean for employees - especially considering how easy it is for different negotiating styles and latent hiring biases to introduce inequality. This is an incredibly tough problem to solve - assigning values to an employee's contributions depends on so many variables, and not always valid business ones or easy ones to capture. Everything from individual experience, specialized knowledge, different negotiating styles, company stage or needs, or racial or gender biases of the employers all make it hard to get an idea of what is really fair. The culture and salary pieces are both big and meaty problems to tackle and seem somewhat unrelated to each other - what was the motivation in tackling both out of the gate?

It's an interesting product! One use case which comes to mind is what if I am changing role - analytics to product, engineering to PM etc - it would be really useful to find that data right now which I can't, since I can only browse on the role I identified myself in.

@jasonnazar US only?

A tool like this *could* be very useful. However, I don't like that I have to sign up to see any data. It would be better if, once you see the data, there was a section that said something along the lines of: "Did you find this helpful? Add your salary to help out others!" People will be inclined to help others get paid fairly. I also found it interesting that there's no distinction between front/backend engineers, as their salaries are very different from what I've seen.

I like the concept but, there is nothing anonymous about it of you have to sign up to see the results.

Why do i have to signup? How often you think do i want to use such service?

If this gives us accurate results and maintains quality throughout, I think a time will come when people can't imagine what it would be without Comparably. Nice !

Just a heads up about Comparably. Essentially one of my friends had a manager talk to him about a review he left on the site because reviews left on Comparably are not anonymous. I tried to have my review removed but they lied about deleting it. This was the email they sent me. My reviews are still there. Matthew, thank you for your email, your concern is extremely valid. FYI, we do have filters in place on your company page to prevent exposing individual identities. For example if you filter by the marketing department you'll see that no reviews show because a threshold of users wasn't met. In the case you bring up, in the email we don't expose any specific ratings of individuals, but you're right that it shows what department rates the highest and lowest. That was actually not supposed to show, the threshold filter should have been in place for the email as well and was a bug on our side that's being immediately fixed. It still does not expose the actual ratings that any individual left but does suggest that someone in a department has left a rating. You're absolutely right to be upset, and we'll be making some changes based on your feedback. We've gone ahead and removed your reviews/ratings. Note that this will stay on our page for up to 1 hour. I appreciate you taking the time to send the email, I never enjoy hearing how folks like you had a bad experience, but your feedback does help us improve going forward.