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How these numbers are made

• Only postings where the employer published a pay figure are counted. Postings without pay are excluded — never guessed at.
• Hourly rates are annualised at 2,080 h/yr so hourly and salaried roles can be compared in one column.
• Each posting contributes the midpoint of its published range.
• One employer advertising one band counts once, however many cities it posts it in. A chain listing the same salary in nineteen locations made one pay decision, not nineteen, and counting it nineteen times flattens the spread to a single number.
• A figure is shown only where at least 5 postings back it. Thinner slices are withheld entirely rather than estimated.
• Postings from one employer are not independent — the same band posted in forty cities is one pay scale, not forty observations. So a row from a single employer is withheld, a row from two employers shows a range but no median (two scales can bracket a market without locating its centre), and a median appears only with three or more employers.
• Contract and 1099 roles can overstate take-home — those rates usually exclude benefits, paid time off and employer taxes.
• This reflects what employers advertise, which is not always what they end up paying.
• The number of employers behind each figure is shown next to the sample. A row drawn from one or two employers describes those companies' pay scales, not the wider market — read those with real caution.