Fair pay, computed.
What a remote role should pay, read four ways: live postings, official wage statistics, and World Bank purchasing power, across 158 occupations. Test an offer against the measured bands. No sign-up, and the method is on the page.
Geography is the last lens.
Median pay for this occupation, read by location. Countries without posted data are estimated through World Bank price levels and marked as such when pinned.
Market salary
Percentile bands from live postings with stated pay, trimmed and floored at 30 observations per cell.
Official anchor
BLS OEWS wage percentiles by occupation and US state. Posting bands are shrunk toward the anchor by sample size.
Purchasing power
World Bank ICP price levels convert pay between countries at what money actually buys.
Remote market rate
What comparable fully-remote roles pay, tracked across live postings daily.
The number is identical. The answer isn’t.
Open models, one transparent score. If an offer can’t survive the math, it wasn’t fair. No black box. No vibes.
Quick answers
How does the remote salary calculator work?
Pick your occupation, the country you live in, and the country the employer hires from. The calculator reads live postings with stated pay, anchors them to official BLS OEWS wage percentiles, and converts between countries with World Bank ICP purchasing-power data. It returns the remote market median, the local market rate, the purchasing-power par, and a fairness score for any number you test. No sign-up.
Is this a salary converter between countries?
Yes, that is one of the lenses. The purchasing-power par converts a salary between two countries at what money actually buys (World Bank ICP price levels), not at the exchange rate. Unlike a plain PPP calculator it is occupation-aware: the conversion starts from real posted pay for your occupation, not from a generic country ratio.
What is a PPP salary calculation?
Purchasing-power parity adjusts pay for what it buys locally. A salary of $60,000 in a country with a price level of 0.5 buys what $120,000 buys in the United States. The calculator uses the World Bank ICP price-level index and states the round it comes from.
Where does the salary data come from?
Three named sources: live job postings with stated pay (refreshed nightly, sample sizes shown per number), US BLS OEWS occupational wage percentiles, and World Bank ICP price levels. Every figure on the page carries its source; nothing is self-reported or estimated without saying so.
Should a remote salary be adjusted for where I live?
That is a negotiation position, not a law of nature, and the calculator shows every reading honestly: the remote market median (location-blind), the local market rate, the purchasing-power par, and the midpoint employers and candidates often land between. The spread between the lenses is the negotiation range.
The full distributions behind these numbers live on the salary pages, per occupation and by country. This tool ran as FairElephant until 2026; the math is unchanged.