Levels.fyi

Levels.fyi

Auth: None (public web scrape) URL: https://www.levels.fyi Configuration: Set target role and companies in vault/career/config.md

What It Provides

Levels.fyi is the gold-standard compensation data source for tech roles. Unlike Glassdoor (which relies on anonymous self-reported salary without level verification) or LinkedIn Salary (which aggregates broadly), Levels.fyi captures compensation with role-level granularity — the difference between an L5 and L6 Software Engineer at a company can be $100K+ in TC, and Levels.fyi captures this correctly. Data is self-reported by verified employees, making it far more accurate than job posting estimates.

Data Available

• Total compensation by company, role, and specific level — with P25, P50, P75, P90 breakdowns
• TC component breakdown: base salary, annual bonus, and RSU equity separately at each percentile
• Job postings on the Levels.fyi board with reported compensation ranges (many postings include base + equity breakdowns)
• Company-specific level ladders (e.g., IC3/IC4/IC5/IC6/IC7 at Meta; L3/L4/L5/L6/L7 at Google; SDE1/SDE2/SDE3 at Amazon; SDI/SDII/Senior/Staff/Principal at Snowflake)
• Year-over-year comp trend by role and company (shows whether comp has been growing or contracting)
• Location-adjusted comp comparisons (SF, NYC, Seattle, Remote, etc.)
• Competing offers data (what offers people received before accepting their current role)

Configuration

Add to vault/career/config.md:

levels_target_role: "Senior Software Engineer"
levels_target_level: "IC4"  # or L5, SDE2, etc. as appropriate for the company
levels_target_companies:
  - "Snowflake"
  - "Databricks"
  - "Google"
  - "Meta"
  - "Amazon"
levels_location: "Remote"  # or city name

Key URLs for Direct Access

https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer?company=Snowflake
https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer?company=Google&level=L5
https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html  # main comp table
https://www.levels.fyi/jobs  # job board with reported comp

How to Interpret the Data

• P50: The market median — what half the people at this role/level/company are earning. This is your primary benchmark.
• P75: The 75th percentile — what strong performers or people with competing offers earn. Your negotiation target.
• Equity component: Levels.fyi reports equity as annualized RSU value at current stock price. This fluctuates with stock price — compare at the same point in time as your own equity calculation.
• Level matching: Your internal level may not map directly to Levels.fyi's company-specific level names. Use years of experience and scope of work to find the closest equivalent.

Technical Notes

• No login required — public data is accessible via scraping
• Rate limiting: add delays between requests (2-3 seconds per page) to avoid being blocked
• Data is crowd-sourced and updated continuously — check the data recency displayed on each role's page
• Non-tech roles may have limited data; in this case, Glassdoor becomes the primary benchmark source

Used By

• op-comp-review — benchmark current TC against market P50/P75 for role and level
• flow-build-comp-summary — generate component-level compensation comparison table
• flow-scan-target-roles — pull compensation data for qualifying job postings

Vault Output

~/Documents/aireadylife/vault/career/00_current/ — benchmark data cache ~/Documents/aireadylife/vault/career/00_current/ — market comp range data from job postings