Get Pay Bands is the startup compensation benchmark built from real founder data. Salary plus equity, by role, stage, and metro, refreshed quarterly, so your next offer is a decision, not a guess.
Launching soon. The first 200 founding contributors get lifetime Contributor status: share your comp data once a quarter, keep full benchmark access free.
Founders contribute numbers. Everyone sees the bands. That is the whole flywheel.
Share your comp data anonymously: role, level, base salary, equity grant, stage, metro. No names, no company, no trace.
Submissions roll into slices by role, stage, and metro. A slice publishes only once 30+ contributors fill it, so every band has statistical weight.
Benchmark your own offers against the bands: where your salary sits, where your equity sits, and how the market moved this quarter.
Contributors re-share quarterly. Bands stay current while annual surveys go stale, and the dataset deepens every cycle.
Median base salary by role, stage, and metro, with equity grant distributions.
Concept illustration. All figures are fictional examples. Product in development.
AngelList averages are thin and stale. Levels.fyi is Big Tech, not your seed-stage market. Get Pay Bands is built for the offers you actually make.
Bands cut by role, level, stage, and metro, because a seed backend engineer in NYC is a different market than a Series B one in Austin. Density-first launch means deep slices where you hire.
Base salary bands alongside equity grant distributions (P25/P50/P75), because in startups the equity half of the offer is where founders overpay most.
Contributions are anonymous. Slices publish only with 30+ contributors. Company names never appear. You can delete your data at any time.
Plot your current offers against the live bands before you send them. See whether you are about to overpay or lose the candidate.
Contributors re-share every quarter, so bands track the market as it moves. Annual surveys are outdated the day they publish; this dataset never is.
Share your numbers once a quarter and keep full benchmark access free. Founding contributors lock lifetime status. The dataset compounds with every cycle.
One mispriced hire costs 10 to 50 times the annual price. Contribute quarterly and the benchmark is free.
Early access members lock founding pricing. Paid tiers open once 10+ slices pass the 30-contributor publish threshold.
Cancel anytime from Settings, then Billing, or by emailing hello@getpaybands.com. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your billing period. Annual plans are refundable within the first 30 days.
Levels.fyi is built for Big Tech offers. A founder calibrating a seed-stage hire in New York gets nothing usable there. Get Pay Bands is segmented by role, stage, and metro specifically for startup offers, and it covers equity grants, where startup offers differ most.
Founders and People leaders at seed through Series C startups. You share role, level, base salary, equity grant, stage, and metro, anonymously, in about 5 minutes. One re-share per quarter keeps your free access active.
Yes. Contributions carry no name and no company. Published slices require 30+ contributors, so no band can be traced back to one company. Company names never appear anywhere. You can delete your data at any time.
Paid tiers open once 10+ slices pass the 30-contributor publish threshold, targeted for month 4. Until then, founding contributors are building the dataset and keeping lifetime free access for quarterly sharing.
An annual report built from the full dataset: how bands moved by role, stage, and metro over the year. Investor tier members get early access. Each year's report is the public proof that the dataset keeps deepening.
Five minutes per quarter. Share your comp numbers, keep full benchmark access free. The first 200 founding contributors lock lifetime Contributor status for quarterly sharing.
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