Fair Salary Calculator & Negotiation Prep Tool

Employees preparing for annual raise discussions don't have an easy way to research fair compensation for their role, location, and experience level. A tool that aggregates salary data, benchmarks, and helps users prepare negotiation talking points. Target: salaried employees preparing compensation conversations.

Salary transparency laws expanding across US states (Colorado, California, New York, Washington) have created a cultural moment where compensation conversations are more normalized and data-driven than they were five years ago, which means demand for this kind of tool is real. Levels.fyi and Glassdoor already own this space for tech workers, and LinkedIn Salary rounds it out further — the data aggregation problem is largely solved at the consumer level, which is the core of what this tool would do. Monetization is tricky: employees are a notoriously hard B2C audience to charge, and a one-time negotiation prep use case doesn't support subscription revenue well, putting the revenue ceiling low unless it pivots to employer-side or recruiter tooling. The most likely failure mode is that users just Google "software engineer salary San Francisco" and get 80% of the value for free, making it nearly impossible to retain or convert them.