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SalaryDuel · Game
Two roles. Who earns more? Real US salary data.
21 followers
Two roles. Who earns more? Real US salary data.
21 followers
A daily salary guessing game on real US data. Each day, 10 rounds. Two real roles. You pick who earns more. After every pick, the real numbers come up: median, p25 to p75 range, market signal, top 4 employers hiring. US roles, 7 cities, refreshed monthly. Two modes: Daily bout for streaks, Endless for higher/lower. Free, no signup, no email. Not a salary calculator. A calibration tool dressed as a game.
There is a concept in PM I keep coming back to: byproducts (some call them "sawdust"), where a byproduct of building one thing turns out to outlive it. That's where SalaryDuel came from. We have a real-time salary data sitting in our infra, and I decided to make a guessing game out of it.
As a product manager, I constantly ship products or features, but this is my first time shipping a game. I'd love your take on one thing: should I add a public leaderboard, or keep rewards personal(streak only)?
Michael
Scade.pro
My results
Two of the comparisons surprised me. It was fun to test my intuition
@maria_anosova you did better than I did. Usually median score is 6/10, so your 8/10 is a very good score. Now, try endless mode - it is trickier than it seems.
Trickier than it looks, right? Some of those pairs are genuinely hard to call. Salary data is full of surprises, especially when you start crossing roles and industries. Good reality check for anyone hiring or job hunting.