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Benchmark posted pay ranges by role and city

Give a compensation or workforce-analytics product a view of the pay employers advertise for a role in each city, cut by company size and industry.

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What it costs: Charged per request: credit pricing.

How the data flows

3 inputs → Job postings feed + Company data feed → 3 fields sample data
01 · Inputs
job postings feed
job-postings-feed-2026-10-01.jsonl
company feed
company-feed-2026-10-01.jsonl
Title
Head of Talent
02 · Forager
Job postings feed + Company data feed
Match found
03 · Outputs
Lee SamplerHead of Talent · Example Inc.
name
Lee Sampler
title
Head of Talent
mobile
+1 (312) 555-0107
work email
lee@example.com
company
Example Inc.
3 fields in the responseexample data

Steps

  1. Load job_postings_feed and keep postings where salary_details is present
  2. Parse salary_details into a range and period, and normalise titles into role families
  3. Join company_feed on organization_forager_id for employees_range and industry
  4. Publish pay ranges by role, parsed_location, company size and industry, with posting counts behind each cell

Inputs and outputs

InputsOutputs
job postings feedadvertised pay range by role and city
company feedposting count per cell
role family mappingcompany size and industry cuts

Questions about this recipe

Can job postings data be used for salary benchmarking?

Give a compensation or workforce-analytics product a view of the pay employers advertise for a role in each city, cut by company size and industry. Customers price roles against what employers are advertising now, with the sample size visible.

What does it cost to benchmark posted pay ranges by role and city?

Job postings feed is a flat annual licence, global or regional, not priced in credits. Self-serve plans are Starter, Growth, Pro and Scale. See plans and prices

What do I need to run this recipe, and what comes back?

You send company feed, job postings feed and role family mapping. You get back advertised pay range by role and city, company size and industry cuts and posting count per cell, as JSON. You also need a Forager API key, which comes with a free account.

Which job postings feed includes salary details?

This recipe uses Forager Job postings feed and Company data feed. Job postings feed: A licensed bulk feed of job postings, delivered to Snowflake or S3 for workforce and hiring-signal products. Give a compensation or workforce-analytics product a view of the pay employers advertise for a role in each city, cut by company size and industry.

Is there a free way to try Forager on this workflow?

Yes. Request a sample extract of the job postings feed on a 30-minute call and check the fields against your own records before you license it.

When should I run this workflow?

When a customer prices a new role, opens an office in a new city, or prepares a pay review. Customers price roles against what employers are advertising now, with the sample size visible.

Which Forager products does this recipe use?

Job postings feed and company data feed. Job postings feed: a licensed bulk feed of job postings, delivered to Snowflake or S3 for workforce and hiring-signal products. Company data feed: a licensed file of 65M+ company profiles and firmographics, delivered to Snowflake or S3 on a schedule.

How accurate is Forager data?

The test that counts is your own: send a list of profiles you care about. We run it and show you what we find, number by number, so you can measure hit rate and connect rate yourself.

Which tools can run this workflow?

Delivered as a data share to Snowflake, Databricks and Amazon S3. Or call the endpoints in the steps above from your own code with one API key.

How many steps is this workflow?

4 steps: load job_postings_feed and keep postings where salary_details is present, parse salary_details into a range and period, and normalise titles into role families, join company_feed on organization_forager_id for employees_range and industry and publish pay ranges by role, parsed_location, company size and industry, with posting counts behind each cell.

Is there a contract or minimum commitment?

Data feeds are licensed on an annual agreement, with the term, volume and refresh schedule written into it. There are no self-serve plans for feeds.

Can we show Forager data inside our product?

Yes, under platform terms. Self-serve plans cover internal use by your own team. Showing Forager data to your users, or passing records on, is licensed separately: talk to sales about volume and which fields your users need to see.

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