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Levels.fyi alternatives

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Glassdoor for pay at a named company, H-1B wage filings for what an employer files for a specific job, pay ranges in job postings for what employers offer now, and the BLS for the typical pay of a job in a city.

The alternatives

Where else to find pay data
SourceWhat you get
BLS (OEWS)Pay for about 830 jobs in states and about 530 areas, from employers
H-1B wage filings (Department of Labor)The wage each employer files for a job and worksite, every quarter
Pay ranges in job postingsRequired in states such as California (15+ employees) and Colorado
GlassdoorSalaries shared anonymously by employees, by company
PayscalePay by experience, skills and certifications, from its survey
IndeedPay in job postings over the past 36 months

H-1B filings: real numbers by employer

Employers that hire on an H-1B visa file the wage they will pay, the job and the worksite. The Department of Labor publishes these filings every quarter. Levels.fyi itself adds more than 1.3 million of them to its data.

Pay ranges in job postings

In California, an employer with 15 or more employees must put the pay scale in every job posting. In Colorado, each job notice must give the pay or its range. A posting is what an employer offers, not what people earn.

The typical pay of your job

Company data tells you what one employer pays. To know where your pay stands in your city, use the median of all employers. How to read BLS salary data.

The BLS median for software developers in the Seattle area is $167,280 (U.S.: $135,980). That is the figure to hold your own pay against, whatever one company pays.

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Questions

Is there a Levels.fyi for jobs outside tech?

Levels.fyi itself now covers 100+ roles in 18 industries. Outside them, Glassdoor shows pay by company, and the BLS gives the median pay by job and city.

Where can I see what a company pays H-1B workers?

In the Department of Labor's LCA disclosure files, published every quarter: employer, job, worksite and wage.

Sources

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, www.bls.gov/oes. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.