Salary Percentile Calculator

Where does your salary stand?

Pick a title, type your salary or a live offer, and the gauge places you on the real distribution of pay ranges for that role. Toggle remote vs onsite to see how the arrangement shifts the curve.

How to read your percentile

A percentile answers one question: of all the pay ranges advertised for your role, what share sit below your number? If you land at the 70th percentile, 70% of the ranges candidates are shown for that title are lower than your pay and 30% are higher. The median (50th percentile) is the middle of the market — half above, half below.

Percentiles are far more honest than a single “average salary” headline. An average gets dragged upward by a handful of staff-and-principal outliers; the median and the surrounding quartiles describe what a typical candidate actually sees. That is why we anchor the gauge to seven points — p5, p10, p25, median, p75, p90, p95 — and interpolate smoothly between them, rather than reducing your role to one number.

Two caveats matter before you act on a result. First, these are the pay ranges shown to candidates — posted or estimated by the source platform — not employer-disclosed paychecks and not your total compensation. Equity, bonus, and cost of living all live outside this picture. Second, a single advertised range is noisy: one generous or stingy posting can swing where a thin role’s breakpoints land. The larger a title’s sample (we show the n), the more you can trust its shape. When a specific remote-or-onsite cell is too thin, the calculator quietly widens to the all-arrangements distribution so you are never reading a percentile built on a handful of posts.

The numbers behind the gauge

Band-vs-offer: don’t over-read one number

If your offer sits at the 40th percentile, that is a reason to ask — not proof you are being underpaid. Posted ranges are wide on purpose (see our salary range width analysis: the median band spans 37% of its lower bound). A role advertised at “$120K–$180K” can legitimately land you anywhere across a $60K spread depending on level, location, and leverage. Use your percentile to frame the ask: anchor to the title-specific median and p75 for your seniority, and let the distribution — not a single posting — carry the argument.

And remember the corpus skew. SoviaJobs is a tech & professional job-application platform, so these percentiles describe that market, not all US jobs. If your role is outside software, data, product, or adjacent fields, treat the all-tech fallback as a rough reference rather than a precise read.