Data Catalog.

Every field. Every role. Updated Q2 2024.

Data Points
Roles
U.S. Cities
REST API Endpoints
MCP Tools
Leveling Frameworks

What you get per role

Every role query returns all of these dimensions. City-adjusted when a city is specified.

Salary range

Low, median and high base salary estimate in USD.

Experience bands

Entry (0-2 yrs), Mid (3-5 yrs), Senior (6-9 yrs), and Lead/Staff (10+ yrs) with salary ranges for each.

Total compensation

Base salary, equity, annual bonus, and signing bonus broken out separately with a combined total.

Employer-specific ranges

Salary ranges at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, Amazon, and other top employers for AI roles.

Remote vs on-site differential

Salary adjustment for remote and hybrid work. High-COL cities: remote pays 8-12% less. Low-COL: 10-18% more.

Company size bands

Salary and equity multipliers for startup (< 50), growth (50-500), scale-up (500-5K), and public (5K+) companies.

Industry multipliers

Adjusted median by industry: AI lab, Big Tech, fintech, healthtech, enterprise SaaS, and early-stage startup.

Equity vesting breakdown

RSU, ISO, and NSO details with vesting schedules, cliff periods, refresh grants, and typical employer tiers.

Education premiums

BS, MS, and PhD salary multipliers. Research roles: PhD adds 30%. AI engineering: 20%. Standard tech: 8%.

Skills that increase pay

35 tracked skills with premium multipliers. RLHF/Alignment: +18%. CUDA: +12%. Kubernetes: +12%.

Freelance/contract rates

Hourly, daily, and annual contract rates derived from full-time salary with a role-specific freelance markup.

Negotiation leverage score

1-10 composite score based on YoY growth, employer competition, AI premium, and city-specific factors.

Adjacent roles

Nearest roles by salary for career transition planning. Shows higher-paying, lateral, and lower-paying alternatives.

Employer cost calculator

Total cost to employer: payroll tax, health insurance, 401(k), benefits, recruiting, and overhead by company size.

5-year trends

Annual median salary from 2022 through 2026. AI roles grew 6-10% annually. Standard tech: 3-6%.

Estimate history

Quarterly snapshots of our computed estimate since Q2 2026. Each response states what the series does and does not show.

Projections through 2030

Year-by-year forecasts using compound annual growth. Includes methodology disclosure and assumptions.

Citation field

Every response includes a cite-ready sentence and an assumptions array. Quote verbatim in papers and reports.

Coverage

Role categories

3445 roles spanning AI/ML, software engineering, data, DevOps, security, design, product, and business, 598 of them specialized. Includes specialized roles like AI Safety Engineer, Prompt Engineer, MLOps Engineer, and AI Agent Architect alongside established roles like Software Engineer, Data Scientist, and Product Manager.

Company coverage

54 company leveling frameworks, each with its ladder of levels and the compensation shape typical at each one. These leveling tables are Orbyt-curated estimates of a company’s public ladder. They are not reported offers and not government data.

Geographic coverage

81 U.S. cities with cost-of-living multipliers derived from BEA Regional Price Parities. Covers all major tech hubs (San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Austin, Boston) plus secondary markets (Denver, Nashville, Raleigh, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh). National (unadjusted) data available for every role by omitting the city parameter.

International coverage

Beyond the United States, the dataset covers the United Kingdom and Canada, built from government wage data. UK figures come from ONS ASHE in GBP and are national today. Canada comes from ESDC and is available per city in CAD. Pass the country parameter on any salary endpoint, or see the international coverage hub for the full country breakdown.

Temporal coverage

Annual trends from 2022 through 2026 (5 years). Annual snapshots since Q3 2025. Forward projections through 2030. Historical data is back-calculated from the current baseline using per-role growth rates. Annual snapshots are stored independently and reflect actual data point updates.

Data sources

H-1B Labor Condition Applications

Department of Labor LCA data. Prevailing wage and offered wage for sponsored positions by employer, role, and location.

BLS Occupational Employment Statistics

Bureau of Labor Statistics OES survey. National and metropolitan area wage estimates for 800+ occupations.

BEA Regional Price Parities

Bureau of Economic Analysis RPPs. Cost-of-living multipliers for metropolitan statistical areas relative to the national average.

Update cadence

Annual data refresh
New salary baselines and annual snapshots published at the start of each year.
Projections recalculated
Forward projections through 2030 are recalculated with each annual refresh using updated growth rates.
30-day API cache
API responses are cached in Redis for 30 days. Cache refreshes naturally within the data update cycle.
Real-time availability
Rate limits and usage are tracked in real time.