Where U.S. Salary Ranges Actually Help Job Seekers: Rankings by Role Area, State, and Metro | Corvi Careers

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Has a salary range

34.3%

471,964 active listings

Has a useful range

23.8%

327,618 active listings

Among posts with salary

69.4%

have a useful range; typical width 18.0%

What counts as useful?

A useful range has a clear minimum and maximum, uses a comparable U.S. dollar pay period, and is not too wide. "Not too wide"<br>means the gap between the low and high end is no more than 30.0% of the midpoint.

Example: $120,000 to $150,000 is useful because the range is about 22% of the midpoint. $90,000 to $220,000 is not very helpful,<br>because the range is almost 84% of the midpoint.

The salary cleanup follows the same base-pay rules used by Salary Explorer.<br>We keep USD annual and hourly ranges that have a believable low and high end,<br>convert annual-style periods to yearly dollars where needed, and exclude daily or weekly contract-style periods. Hourly ranges can still be compared here<br>because width is a percentage of that range's own midpoint, not a dollar amount.

The "salary coverage" column is not a legal pay-transparency rate. It is the share of listings where Corvi Careers could parse a usable salary range from the posting.<br>A posting may still mention pay in a way that is too vague, incomplete, non-USD, or otherwise not comparable enough for this analysis;<br>our parser may also miss pay language that does not fit the formats we currently recognize.

Fast read

Product, Design, Media & Content has the strongest role-area showing: 29.0% of active listings include a useful salary range.

Remote U.S. listings are their own bucket: 32.2% have a useful range, and salary coverage is 47.3%.

Among states, New York (NY) ranks first with useful ranges on 38.3% of active listings.

Among metros, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area ranks first at 38.9%.

Overall, 34.3% of active U.S. listings show a usable salary range format, and 23.8% show a range narrow enough to help.

Useful salary ranges by role area

These broad role areas are where candidates are most likely to see a salary range that is both present and specific.

RankRole areaListingsSalary coverageUseful rangeUseful PctWidth1Product, Design, Media & Content14,14843.6%29.0%66.4%22.2%2Education, Social Impact & Public Sector43,08335.7%28.4%79.7%11.8%3Marketing, Sales & Customer Experience89,23244.2%27.7%62.6%22.2%4Construction, Trades, Real Estate & Field Services80,50936.4%26.4%72.6%16.2%5Finance, Legal & Risk60,45743.2%26.1%60.4%25.0%6Business Operations, Administration & Leadership161,28936.1%25.9%71.9%16.2%7Software, Data & AI53,51145.7%25.3%55.4%28.3%8IT, Cloud, Security & Enterprise Platforms38,97342.5%24.7%58.2%26.4%9Engineering, Manufacturing & Applied Science112,95038.3%23.9%62.3%22.2%10Retail, Food, Hospitality & Services409,70628.8%22.2%77.1%8.0%11Healthcare, Life Sciences & Wellness312,01230.5%21.4%70.0%19.2%

Useful salary ranges by state

State rankings only include listings tied to a state. Remote U.S. listings are shown separately: 32.2%<br>have a useful salary range, and 47.3% have any salary range.

RankStateListingsSalary coverageUseful rangeUseful PctWidth1New York (NY)78,15154.2%38.3%70.8%17.4%2Colorado (CO)28,08152.4%36.0%68.6%18.2%3New Jersey (NJ)33,19451.5%35.9%69.7%17.3%4Massachusetts (MA)40,03754.6%35.0%64.0%22.2%5California (CA)146,83950.4%34.7%68.8%19.0%6Washington (WA)28,29948.7%32.7%67.2%20.0%7Illinois (IL)49,02949.3%31.8%64.4%21.1%8Minnesota (MN)24,41851.2%28.0%54.7%26.1%9Maryland (MD)23,41345.6%27.7%60.8%21.3%10Oregon (OR)12,08931.6%24.2%76.4%15.6%11Nevada (NV)13,04431.2%23.9%76.8%11.1%12Connecticut (CT)13,30430.9%21.7%70.3%15.4%

Useful salary ranges by metro

Metro rankings show where location-tied postings give candidates the clearest pay expectations.

RankMetroListingsSalary coverageUseful rangeUseful PctWidth1New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area59,70055.2%38.9%70.4%18.7%2Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metro Area39,63954.7%38.8%71.1%16.2%3Boulder, CO Metro Area17,86753.4%36.4%68.2%19.4%4Vallejo, CA Metro Area11,54649.7%36.1%72.6%17.9%5Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metro Area16,03853.1%35.9%67.6%19.4%6San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metro Area11,86350.8%34.6%68.2%16.3%7Worcester, MA-CT Metro Area7,20949.6%34.0%68.6%17.0%8Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area29,84455.2%33.6%60.9%25.1%9Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA Metro Area18,53649.5%33.3%67.4%21.8%10Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metro Area18,56649.5%33.2%67.1%22.0%11Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA Metro Area5,41146.6%32.2%69.1%19.7%12San Francisco Bay Area49,13849.4%32.0%64.8%22.2%

How to read this

Role group rankings use the primary job category assigned to each listing. State and metro rankings use the job location records attached to each listing.

Remote U.S. listings are tracked separately from state-tied listings and excluded from metro rankings.

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