Salary Data API

Free public API for querying salary and compensation data from real job listings. No API key required. CORS enabled for browser use.

Endpoint

GET https://optero.ai/api/public/salaries

Parameters

All parameters are optional. Pass at least role for useful results.

Parameter	Type	Description
`role`	string	Job title to search for (e.g., "Software Engineer", "Data Scientist")
`location`	string	City, country, or "Remote" (e.g., "Bangalore", "San Francisco")
`level`	string	Seniority level (e.g., "junior", "mid", "senior", "lead", "staff")
`currency`	string	Filter by currency code (e.g., "INR", "USD", "EUR")

Example request

curl "https://optero.ai/api/public/salaries?role=Software+Engineer&location=Bangalore"

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "query": {
      "role": "Software Engineer",
      "location": "Bangalore",
      "level": "",
      "currency": ""
    },
    "count": 142,
    "currency": "INR",
    "stats": {
      "median": 1800000,
      "p10": 800000,
      "p25": 1200000,
      "p75": 2800000,
      "p90": 4200000,
      "min": 500000,
      "max": 7500000
    },
    "by_seniority": [
      {
        "level": "senior",
        "count": 48,
        "median": 3200000,
        "min": 1800000,
        "max": 7500000
      },
      {
        "level": "mid",
        "count": 61,
        "median": 1600000,
        "min": 800000,
        "max": 3000000
      }
    ],
    "top_companies": [
      {
        "name": "Google",
        "count": 8,
        "median": 4500000
      }
    ],
    "attribution": "Data from OpteroAI (optero.ai)"
  }
}

Rate limits

*30 requests per minute per IP address
*Rate-limited responses return HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header
*CORS is enabled for all origins, so you can call this directly from browser JavaScript

Attribution

This API is free. If you use it in a product or article, please include attribution:

Data from OpteroAI (optero.ai)

Embeddable salary widget

Want to show salary data on your site? Embed our widget with an iframe. Pass role and location as query params.

<iframe
  src="https://optero.ai/embed/salary?role=Software+Engineer&location=Bangalore"
  width="100%"
  height="400"
  frameborder="0"
  title="Salary data from OpteroAI"
  style="border-radius: 12px; border: 1px solid #222;"
></iframe>

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