SalaryDuel pulls from payscope.ai, a career development tool. payscope's salary benchmarking model processes up to 10 million market data points each month and updates in real time. Every salary in this game is a real number from that model.
payscope's model updates in real time. SalaryDuel takes a fresh snapshot at the start of each month and uses it for that month's daily rounds. The numbers you see reflect the current month's snapshot. If you want the live version of your own number, that's what payscope is for.
For the daily game, SalaryDuel uses a curated set of roles. The filter at import: roles with reliable data across multiple US locations and seniority levels, and role names that don't already include a level (no "Chief Executive," no "First-Line Supervisor of X"). The pool covers tech, finance, healthcare, business, science, education, and more. Different pairs every day.
Three things on each card: the role, the seniority (Entry-level, Mid-level, Senior-level, Lead-level), and a US location. The salary you see is the median for that combination. The smaller line below is the typical range, where the middle half of people in that role land. Median decides the winner. When two ranges overlap heavily, you'll see a "tight call" badge so you know how close it really was.
Most people guess salaries wrong by a wide margin in either direction. We've all heard someone's comp and thought "that much?" or "only that?" SalaryDuel calibrates your intuition against real data. In two minutes a day.
If you want your own number, that's what payscope.ai does. This game is the warm-up.
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