Fair Raise Calculator

Employees don't know what salary increase to ask for during annual reviews, leading to underpayment. A tool that gathers location, role, experience, and market data to suggest a fair raise percentage helps workers negotiate confidently. Target users: employees preparing for salary reviews, career changers, professionals in their first year.

Compensation transparency is having a real moment — pay equity legislation in the US, UK, and EU is forcing companies to publish salary bands, which means employees are more informed than ever and actively seeking benchmarking tools to back up their asks. Levels.fyi and Glassdoor already own the tech-sector end of this problem, and LinkedIn Salary covers the broad middle, so differentiation would need to come from hyperlocal accuracy, specific verticals (healthcare, trades, nonprofits), or genuinely better methodology than "average salary from self-reported data." The revenue model is the core problem: employees use this once a year at most, which makes subscription hard to justify and pushes toward one-time payments or ads — neither of which compounds well. The deepest risk is that the data layer is either borrowed from sources that already have free consumer-facing tools, or it's thin enough that users don't trust the output, which kills the entire value proposition.