API

Live and Accurate Salary Data API

Embed accurate, real-time compensation benchmarks into your product. For employees and contractors. Refreshed daily, grounded in real market signals — not years-old inaccurate surveys.

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REST · JSON · 180+ countries · Updated daily

3 Steps + Code

How It Works

01Get your key

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02Call the endpoint
GET /v1/salary
  ?title=Software Engineer
  &country=DE
  &experience_years=5
  &work_mode=remote
  &employment_type=full_time

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03Render live pay
{
  "role": "Software Engineer",
  "country": "DE",
  "currency": "EUR",
  "median": 78400,
  "p25": 66200,
  "p75": 92500,
  "employment_type": "full_time",
  "updated_at": "2026-06-28T09:00:00Z"
}

🚀 Endpoints shown are illustrative — see the docs for the full spec.

API Specifications

Built for

Compensation data for every platform

ATS

Add real-time salary ranges to candidate profiles and offer workflows.

HR Platforms

Give HR teams live comp benchmarks for reviews, promotions, and bands.

Job Boards

Show accurate pay estimates on every listing to boost engagement.

Marketplaces

Price roles and gigs with confidence using fresh market data.

Fintech

Power lending, underwriting, and payroll features with verified salary data.

Payroll Software

Benchmark compensation against market rates before every pay run.

Any Compensation Planning Tool

If your product touches compensation, Paycompass fits right in.

Tool

Salary Benchmark Tool

Compare compensation for any role across countries, experience levels, work modes, and employment types — instantly.

Live Salary Data

The API / For Builders

Comp Data Your Users Can't Live Without — One API Call Away

Embed live, global salary intelligence directly into your product. ATS, HR platform, job board, marketplace, fintech, payroll — if your users care about pay, this is your unfair advantage.

Why teams build on Paycompass:

  • Ship a killer feature, not a data team. Launch pay benchmarking, salary ranges, and offer guidance without building (or buying) a global comp dataset from scratch.
  • Win trust instantly. Accurate, real-time pay ranges make your product the source of truth your users come back to.
  • Boost engagement and retention. Compensation insight is sticky — it pulls users in and keeps them.
  • Stay compliant by default. Power pay-transparency requirements and salary-range postings with data that's always current.
  • Built to scale. Always-fresh data, clean endpoints, fast responses — engineered to grow with you.

Get Salary API

GET /v1/salary
  ?title=Software Engineer
  &country=DE
  &experience_years=5
  &work_mode=remote
  &employment_type=full_time

Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…

Get candidate-level salary insight, not generic averages.

The Filters Deep-Dive

Drill All the Way Down to the Exact Number

"Software Engineer" isn't a salary. It's a range with a dozen variables. We give you the dials to close the gap between roughly and exactly:

Company type

Startup, scale-up, or enterprise pay it differently. Pick the one you are.

Years of experience

Junior to principal, priced precisely.

Work mode

Remote, hybrid, or onsite changes the number. Account for it.

Skills

The rare, in-demand skills that command a premium.

Languages

Multilingual roles, priced for the markets they serve.

🚀 Live compensation data refreshed daily.

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Built on Paycompass

Products You Can Build on Top of Our APIs

Our data is the foundation. You shape the experience. Here are four ready-to-ship products your customers will love:

Widget

Drop an iframe into any application instantly. Embed live salary insights without writing a full integration.

AI chatbot

Let your users ask pay questions in plain language. The chatbot calls our APIs to answer anything about compensation.

Reports

Generate custom reports for your customers. Share branded, data-driven salary insights in a few clicks.

Reports

Ready-Made Reports That Match Your Business

Paycompass builds salary reports around your company size, industry and location, so every number is relevant — not a generic market average. The data is always live, refreshed daily and ready to share.

  • Matched to your company size, industry and location
  • Live salary data refreshed daily
  • Export-ready formats for boards, HR and finance
See a sample report
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Sample report preview

RoleSoftware Engineer
LocationUnited States
Range$145,000 – $185,000

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Start Building with Live Salary Data

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Explore the API
  • 180+ countries
  • Refreshed daily
  • REST · JSON
  • Employees & contractors