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How much are you worth?
Drop in your resume. A minute later you'll see your market ceiling and where you rank against people with your experience.
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Example result
Heavy HitterYou could be worth up to
$248K a year
Top 9% for Backend Engineer roles in San Francisco, CA
- Market range
- $196K–$248K
- Median estimate
- $214K
- On the table
- +$34K
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Why your job title is not your salary
What actually moves pay is the stuff a title average throws away.
- 01
Scope sets the band
Two people carrying the same title and the same years of experience can sit a full level apart, because one owned a surface end to end and the other owned a slice of it. That is the difference a resume shows and an average for a job title cannot.
- 02
Stage moves the number more than the logo does
A generalist at a Series A and a specialist at a Series C can share a title and sit in very different bands, and the split between cash and equity moves again with every round the company raises.
- 03
Location still anchors the band, even for remote roles
Most teams peg a remote offer to a market rather than to where you happen to live, so the same role pays differently depending on which market the team bands against.
- 04
An average hides the thing you actually need
The average salary for a senior engineer is one number stretched over a very wide band. What tells you whether to ask for more is where in that band your experience lands, which is a percentile, not an average.
Salary calculator questions
Upload your resume, or your LinkedIn profile saved as a PDF. The model reads your roles, seniority, skills and location, checks live salary data for people with comparable experience, and gives you a market range instead of one number.
It's free and you don't need an account. Upload a resume, get an estimate. If you're already signed in to Clera, we'll offer the resume you have on file so you can skip the upload.
There's no single right number for a title. What you should earn depends on your years of experience, the scope you've actually owned, the market you work in and the stage of company you work for. The calculator reads those signals off your resume and returns the band comparable profiles are paid, which is a far better answer than a national average for a job title.
Compare your current salary with the percentile the calculator gives you. Sitting near the bottom of the band for your profile usually means your pay has drifted behind your experience. That's common if you've been promoted internally instead of changing companies. The gap figure shows what that drift is worth each year.
It's an estimate, not an offer. Pay depends on company stage, funding, equity split and how a specific team has banded the role, and a resume tells you none of that. Treat the range as a starting point for a conversation, not a number to quote.
Yes. The same role is banded very differently in San Francisco, Austin and on a remote US team, so the estimate follows the market your experience sits in.
Yes, as evidence rather than a demand. A range for your specific profile, with a percentile next to it, is a stronger opening than a number pulled from a job board. Bring the band, explain the scope you own that puts you in the upper half of it, and ask where your employer sees you in it.
Those are lookup tools. You pick a company, a title and a level, and read what other people reported. This works the other way round: it starts from your actual resume and returns a band for your experience, so you don't have to guess which level or title you map to.
Yes. It covers go-to-market, operations, design, product, data and engineering. Coverage is deepest where startup hiring is densest, so a senior sales or product role gets a tighter band than a very specialized or heavily regulated one.
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Your result puts your ceiling next to your percentile, so you can see the size of the gap. If you want to act on it, Clera introduces you to companies hiring at that level, so you don't have to apply cold.
Worth more than you're paid?
Check your number in about a minute. If the gap is real, Clera can introduce you to teams hiring at your level.