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Our comprehensive guide to navigating hard conversations, debunking negotiation myths, and getting what you're worth

Understanding the game: how job offers are designed | Negotiation Guide | Salary Confidential

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Learn how companies structure offers, what 'budget envelopes' mean, and why your first offer is never the top of the range

The mindset shift: you got the offer because they want you | Negotiation Guide | Salary Confidential

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Turn nerves into leverage by remembering that the offer proves your value — not the other way around

The psychology of speed: why they want you to answer fast | Negotiation Guide | Salary Confidential

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It's not just that you can use the time to carefully consider your option; it's also that waiting itself makes the company more anxious and more receptive to your asks

The anatomy of a negotiation: rounds, counters, and “final offers” | Negotiation Guide | Salary Confidential

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When a company makes you their original offer, you can expect to toss the ball with your counter offers, their response ... and a few tactics they use to try and get you to give up before you let the full course of negotiation run its course

You won’t lose an offer just because you’re negotiating | Negotiation Guide | Salary Confidential

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The fear of “pushing too far” is a common reason for why candidates are concerned about whether or how much to negotiate. This is one of the most common myths of salary negotiation

Negotiating from a reasonable offer | Negotiation Guide | Salary Confidential

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Avoid debating market data; it’s not a courtroom. Signal that you’re informed, not confrontational, and use the language of collaboration. Fair doesn’t mean final — the space between those words is where good negotiators live

Negotiating from a low offer (and knowing when to walk) | Negotiation Guide | Salary Confidential

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Rescuing a lowball offer doesn't have amazing odds, but it's worth a shot and you'll learn as much from the process as you would learn from negotiating a great offer. You'll learn different things, to be sure, but valuable all the same

Building optionality: the power of parallel conversations | Negotiation Guide | Salary Confidential

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You don't need multiple offers: You need motion, or the appearance of it. Optionality changes how recruiters think: they stop asking “will this person say yes?” and start asking “how do we close before someone else does?”

How to use market data (we do not talk about Fight Club) | Negotiation Guide | Salary Confidential

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Market data is a compass that you use to set your course, not the place to launch an argument

Writing the counter: scripts that win respect (not recoil) | Negotiation Guide | Salary Confidential

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Structure your counter using Up–Down–Ask–Deflect — the framework that wins both trust and raises

When they counter your counter: the real negotiation begins | Negotiation Guide | Salary Confidential

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Round 2 is where you learn what’s movable. Learn how to push precisely where the system can flex.

Your current employer matches your external offer: Stay or go? | Negotiation Guide | Salary Confidential

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A counter-offer from your existing employer is giving you pause, because you can evaluate it with a lot more context than an external offer. But this offer came as they felt threatened that you may leave and this context is very relevant too. They’re not discovering your worth — they’re avoiding contagion.

Negotiation Guide: The Situational Playbook | Guides | Salary Confidential

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A deeper look at the negotiations shaped by context — early stage startups, large enterprise corporations, internal moves, gender dynamics, optionality, and asking for more when it feels impossible.

Negotiating at early-stage startups | Negotiation Guide: The Situational Playbook | Salary Confidential

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Decode startup offers, dilution, vesting, and how to value ownership you can’t yet spend

Negotiating at large corporations | Negotiation Guide: The Situational Playbook | Salary Confidential

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How to work inside rigid pay structures and still raise your ceiling

In-house raises & promotions: you have to choose which one you want most | Negotiation Guide: The Situational Playbook | Salary Confidential

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Why internal negotiations are often the hardest... and how to change the script

Negotiating as a woman | Negotiation Guide: The Situational Playbook | Salary Confidential

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How gendered expectations shape tone, perception, and confidence -- and how to break the script

If you find it hard to ask for more | Negotiation Guide: The Situational Playbook | Salary Confidential

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Reframe self-advocacy as collective good

Field notes: when optionality gets real (the case of company F vs company G) | Negotiation Guide: The Situational Playbook | Salary Confidential

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Once a candidate starts picturing themselves somewhere else, money might not be enough.

Crafting Excellent Polls and Surveys | Guides | Salary Confidential

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Best practices for using the Salary Confidential platform to gain the kind of intelligence you used to think you could never gain

Designing meaningful peer groups | Crafting Excellent Polls and Surveys | Salary Confidential

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Leveraging Salary Confidential's two-tier poll structure allows you to make peer groups tightly focused without losing sight of the bigger picture

Frequently asked questions

Frequently Asked Questions & Help | Salary Confidential

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Browse all FAQ articles and guides

How do our cryptographic invitation tokens work without tracking respondents? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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We use tokens to ensure that only invited participants can enter a survey. These are not "tracking codes," but rather they use cryptography called VOPRF (Verifiable Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions) which guarantees that they can never be used to track respondents

Can I export results? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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You have two different ways to export results if you're the requester: print a PDF of the report or export as CSV ; one way to do so if you're a survey respondent: print a PDF

In-depth technical look at VOPRF tokens and the Salary Confidential privacy model | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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For the technically curious, this page explains the cryptographic machinery that allows Salary Confidential to verify your right to participate in a survey without ever knowing who you are or linking your identity to your salary data

What is the Outreach Interview? Can I skip it? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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The outreach interview helps create custom messages to explain the context of your survey to your potential respondents

How do I authorize users to manage my organization? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Adding an authorized user to manage your organization in Salary Confidential

How should I interpret the results or use them in a negotiation? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Salary Confidential benchmarks are meant to be tightly focused on peer groups that look most like you. Their best use is to give you high confidence that your negotiation is based on realistic goals - not to claim that they reflect wide benchmarks

How do Polls and Survey Peer Groups work together? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Salary Confidential's data collection is a two-tier structure: the poll is the large container for your overall inquiry (the question you're trying to understand); the survey peer group is focused on a subset of people within your larger question. Some polls may only have one survey ; other polls will use the capability of multiple surveys to give you a clear read of how separate peers groups each fare while still allowing you to view all results together at the poll level

How many responses do I need before results are released? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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You start to see partial results when 3 results have been submitted. But there are some variations on how you'll see these results depending on the size of your survey

What happens if someone submits filler compensation data? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Salary Confidential runs automated quality checks on individual submitted responses before reports get published. Such responses get excluded from the reports, and are not billed

What is the “safe batches of 3” rule which controls how partial results are released to a requester? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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To protect every respondent and keep their data truly confidential, we release results in safe batches of three or more responses — never smaller

Do I need a professional email address to participate as a respondent? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Respondents don’t need to register or share an email at all. Requesters, not respondents, are required to verify their professional email and identity, so they approach Respondents transparently

Can I close a survey early and release all outstanding results? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Salary Confidential is meant to safely escrow your respondents' data so it never leaves the gate in a manner that could permit to triangulate a respondent's data. There is no 'escape hatch' mechanism for this: our anti-triangulation mechanisms are maintained even if you close the survey early

What does 'anti-triangulation' mean, and why does it matter? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Making sure data is anonymous isn't just about not storing a name: We make sure that a requester cannot infer and connect a response to a person by designing systems that remove or correct tangential ways to break anonymity

I forgot my Respondent key! How can I get access to the report now? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Respondents are anonymous so the secret results keys you obtain when you submit a response to a survey isn't being stored in a personal account you control. There are, however, two manual ways you can try and use to gain access to your results if you lost the keys

Do I get access to the results after responding? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Respondents get a personal link to access results immediately upon submitting data to a survey. The report will be available there when the survey closes. You should keep the result link handy and visit it periodically to see if the report has become ready: We have no way of notifying you as an anonymous respondent

Can I create my own Poll Model? I'd like to ask about a certain data item but don't see the option. | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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If you'd like to survey respondents along criteria we don't seem to have, reach out to us. We can create new models quickly, and we are eager to learn from real-world users about things that you and others would like to be able to ask your respondents about

How Salary Confidential approaches the goal of k-anonymity while keeping respondents safe | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Salary Confidential took a lot of inspiration from some of the principles of K-Anonymity algorithms, but we are not using them on our data. In particular, we changed how we gather data on location to avoid pseudo-identifiers

How do I start my first Poll? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Starting a new poll means deciding what questions you will ask. Under the hood, you're actually starting your first survey as well: that's what actually goes out to your chosen peer group. To support your outreach, you'll answer a short interview which we will use to generate custom messages you can use to share with your peer set to convince them to share their data

Can I edit my Poll after it's launched? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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The underlying set of questions of a poll (the 'poll model') can be edited until the first response to any of the poll's surveys comes in. Once a first response comes in, it is no longer possible to change the poll model.

How do I pause or delete a Survey? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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You can pause a survey at any time; You can only cancel a survey in its first 24 hours or until its first result is received, whichever comes first

How does Salary Confidential protect requester information from leaking? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Requesters are not anonymous on our platform: anyone asking for sensitive compensation data should disclose who they are so respondents can evaluate the context of the request. We make sure, however, that requester information is only seen by potential respondents, and not by anybody (or anything) else

How closing a survey early works - and why we may hold back data (for Math nerds) | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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How Salary Confidential handles early survey closure, why some data may be held back, and how our privacy-safe release rules work — including the math behind them.

Can I duplicate or relaunch a previous Poll? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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You can relaunch a previous poll by building a new survey peer group under it. You cannot create a separate poll that is a pure copy of an existing poll. We explain why this is in your interest

Can I respond to multiple surveys? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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All of us have multiple facets that may make you relevant for inclusion in surveys with different focus, run by different requesters. You can participate in any and all surveys to which you have been invited. You'll receive reports that will tell different stories depending on the specific focus of each survey

Are email addresses visible to anyone? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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A requester's professional email address is visible on the survey page while the survey is still open. However, only users with the link to the survey would see it, and we take various technical measures to prevent Search and Bots from scraping our site and picking up this data

What is the Liquidity Trajectory Index? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Salary Confidential has two indexes to help make equity compensation more easily comparable between respondents. The Liquidity Trajectory Index estimates how likely a respondent’s equity is to become liquid, helping make equity compensation more comparable across companies and respondents.

Can I change or withdraw a response after submitting it? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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We have no automated way to let an anonymous respondent access "their" record. But you can reach out to support to fix a factual error before the survey closes. It's a manual process and means you will have to provide ways for us to identify your record by giving us its precise submitted details

How privacy-by-construction is built into Salary Confidential's surveys and results reports | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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We explain how respondent data is shown to other participants of surveys, to the requester of the survey and how Salary Confidential works to limit surface identity signals and social graph leakage in the data we obtain on behalf of all parties

How does Salary Confidential protect my identity and data? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Privacy-by-design is an onion: we limit the data we collect; we control access to the data we collect; we defend the data we collect

How reliable are the results? Wouldn't respondents lie? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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We go to great lengths to keep respondents anonymous and their data impossible to link to them. We do it for the 'confidential' promise of it all, but also to remove the social, financial and psychological incentives for a respondent to misrepresent themselves

What do final results look like? (Employee polls) | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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We present each response set on its own so the context of each response is clear; we also calculate various statistics on your total numbers. Where more than 2 results come from companies of similar sizes, we also calculate ranges and distribution

What happens after I launch a Poll or respond to a Survey? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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As a requester, you'll keep track of the number of responses and get access to partial results in your dashboard ; a respondent, being anonymous, needs to visit their survey page periodically to see if the survey has closed and get access to the results report

Is Salary Confidential GDPR compliant? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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We comply with the core GDPR principles: data minimization, purpose limitation, transparency, and user control.

What is the Equity Delivery Index? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Salary Confidential has two indexes to help make equity compensation more easily comparable between respondents. The Equity Delivery Index helps compare equity packages along the axis of the reliability with equity-based comp is being handed to an employee

When should I create a new Survey versus adding more slots to an existing one? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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When you want more data from an existing peer group, just add more slots to your open survey; If you want to ask question to an adjacent peer group, you should create a separate survey. This keeps the focus of the data sharp

My Survey link isn’t working. What should I do? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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A survey link can stop working for several legitimate reasons but will give you a message about the cause. Alternatively, you can reach out to support if you are a requester and are having trouble

Managing your login options and email account changes (Google or Email-Password) | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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You can use your Google account to log into Salary Confidential, or an email-password combo. You can use both methods together, if you'd like. And you can enable 2-factor authentication using codes from an authenticator app (TOPT) for extra security

Why isn't 'Total Compensation' always including equity? (We let Respondents decide) | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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"Total Comp" is a different number depending on the kind of equity you're getting. We're leaving the respondent to decide how they think of their total comp, rather than making that assumption ourselves

What’s up with the musician names near the Marketing Consent section of My Profile? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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To go along with our compliance record keeping, we name the versions of our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy after the best recording artists of our time. Related: we like a pun

What is a Poll Report? Can Respondents see it? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Poll reports aggregate data across multiple surveys which are associated to the poll. Poll reports offer roll-ups of all data

Using Salary Confidential to identity a specific pay gap (Gender, Ethnic group etc) | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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If you suspect there’s a pay gap affecting you, Salary Confidential gives you a way to break off your surveys along peer groups so you can conclusively differentiate results by context

What if my payment didn’t go through? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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You can re-attempt payment for a pending Survey by clicking "View Details" for the survey in your dashboard. There will be a link to go back to Stripe to pay for this survey

How is organization size handled while preserving anonymity? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Organization size in Salary Confidential is shown as an approximate category rather than an exact value, with intentionally soft boundaries and no meaningful ordering within groups. Near category edges, results may appear in adjacent bands to reduce inference risk. When even this representation is unsafe, organization size is fully suppressed.

What is a 'Trust Circle'? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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"Trust Circle" is an optional feature of Salary Confidential that allows Respondents who participated in a peer group survey to get connected to each other after the survey is complete. It’s designed for professional networking, not for sharing salary data.

What happens if a Survey peer group doesn’t reach enough responses? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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We encourage requesters to invite additional peers to their surveys (keeping the focus tight); if, all the same, the survey peer group never completes, we will delete all associated data after the retention period ends: 13 months after the last recorded submission activity in the survey

Do you protect against ballot stuffing or Sybil attacks? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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When a survey peer group closes and prior to publishing a report, Salary Confidential runs integrity checks to detect patterns consistent with ballot stuffing or Sybil attacks. In certain cases, the survey report may be entirely held back if privacy and result integrity cannot be guaranteed

How do I get help if something isn’t working? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Most problems can be solved from your dashboard. Alternatively, reach out to Support

What happens to Surveys if there’s no movement after a year? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Surveys are considered abandoned if no submission activity is seen in 13 months

How do I know if my surveys will attract responses? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Salary Confidential surveys are meant to be the exchange of peer data. Transparency in who is asking and why supports your request, and the quality of the peer focus makes acquiring the result report attractive, the external incentive for a respondent to participate

What is Salary Confidential, and who is it for? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Salary Confidential is a confidential, peer-to-peer data platform for professionals who want focused, real-world compensation insights. It connects Requesters, who launch targeted surveys, with Respondents, who share their compensation data anonymously in exchange for access to the final report of aggregated results. Salary Confidential uses techniques from k-anonymity research to solve the issue of micro-data anonymity by shaping question design, by enforcing specific release mechanisms, and by controlling the shape of results report so respondents can't be triangulated.

Why don’t you integrate with LinkedIn to verify Requesters’ profiles? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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We've considered integrating with the LinkedIn Single-Sign On to create automatic verification of Requesters' LinkedIn profile. But we decided we didn't want a data flow to LinkedIn at this stage

Legal and compliance information | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Find links to our various legal documents and terms & conditions

How do I choose which peers or roles to include? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Think of your peer group as the smallest circle of professionals whose compensation patterns would genuinely inform your decision

Do Respondents need to verify their identity or employment? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Respondents are selected by requesters. Salary Confidential doesn't need to collect information about them for participation. If the requester selected a respondent, that's all we need to know

How do I know if a Poll is legitimate or relevant to me? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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We show you the identity of the requester and the survey message should carry the kind of context that would help a potential requester decide whether they feel comfortable participating in a survey

Time units in freelancer polls | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Respondents can choose the time unit that fits each service (hour, day, week, month). We normalize results and display them in the unit most commonly used by the group.

The 'Safe batches of three' release rules for the math geeks | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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In order to prevent triangulation of data responses, Salary Confidential designed a mathematical rule that never allows the release of results in sets smaller than 3 responses

How long do I have access to the data once it’s released? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Respondents can access reports using their private access key for at least 13 months after publication, but for compliance reason, we don't keep data forever

What are the risk scores? (Expense handling for freelancers etc) | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Salary Confidential uses risk scores to describe how financial risk is distributed between the independent professional and the client.

How are Requesters verified? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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We ask that requesters place an opaque unique code on their LinkedIn profile - so respondents can establish the requester is indeed that LinkedIn profile ; and we verify a professional email address for the requester

What personal information do you collect? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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We collect minimal data on respondents, only for fraud detection ; we require requesters to provide their real identities to build trust ; we never sell, rent, or trade user data

I think I found a bug or security issue. What should I do? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Please reach out to us if you've identified a bug or a security issue

Why would I respond to a Survey? What’s in it for me? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Participating in a survey as a respondent gives you access to highly focused, useful salary data in which you are a peer. Supporting peers who are negotiating is also useful in how it lifts baselines for everyone

What happens if Salary Confidential shuts down? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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We will communicate with registered requesters; Survey data would remain available at least 90 days after we announce the shutdown

As a requester, how and how much should I control who participates in my Surveys? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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For your salary data to be as useful as possible, requesters can — and should — limit access by controlling how its invitation link is distributed and to whom they give an invite token

How do organization invitations work? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Learn more about how our organization invitations work

As a Respondent, can I add or suggest other participants for the survey I received? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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As a respondent, you should certainly feel comfortable communicating with your requesters if you want to suggest a participant, but you cannot invite them yourself because requesters control who they want to include as potential respondents (and they are the ones with invitation tokens to hand out)

As a Respondent, I noticed that my Requester’s LinkedIn profile doesn’t show the Salary Confidential verification key | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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If your requester's LinkedIn profile is also the channel they used to reach out to you, it's probably a misunderstanding ; if your requester reached out through another channel, please report the survey to us and we will suspend it while we investigate

I signed a NDA on my compensation. Can I respond to a Salary Confidential survey safely? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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If your NDA is even legal in the first place, Salary Confidential offers a number of ways to keep your disclosure very limited

Are you going to localize Salary Confidential into other languages? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Salary Confidential is internationalized by default: Our poll models support benefits across geographies and currencies; Our outreach message generator can generate content in any language; However, the site interface isn't localized and we suggest you use your browser's native translation capabilities

How is Salary Confidential different from a compensation benchmarking service? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Benchmarking services create large aggregates around a role within an industry. We take a very different approach: We offer a way for our users to acquire small, tailored datasets that are centered on a highly focused peer group

Why does Salary Confidential ask for 'fair value' compensation, and why is it mandatory? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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How separating actual pay numbers from 'fair value' pay makes truthful reporting more comfortable and improves data quality in anonymous compensation surveys.

Can a Requester share Poll results? Can a Respondent share Survey results? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Each Poll and Survey peer group report is secured with private keys. We assumed the reports may get shared, and we won't stop you. If you have private keys, it means you contributed and it's your data to use as you wish. In order for the reports to be shareable, they deliberately contain no information about the requester of the survey

What if I don’t have LinkedIn? As a Requester, is it mandatory to have a LinkedIn profile? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Requesters need to share a LinkedIn profile in their account; Respondents don't need to have LinkedIn to participate

What are the special powers of the Owner of an organization? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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In a Salary Confidential organization, one person is an Owner and has a special status that ensures an organization can always be recovered. An owner can transfer this special status to another person, and immediately loses their own owner status

What happens if a Requester or Respondent deletes their account or asks for data removal? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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We abide by data removal requests: what you are able to delete depends on whether you are a requester or a respondent

How does Salary Confidential differ from traditional salary surveys or Glassdoor? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Our model treats salary information as shared intelligence — not user-generated content. We prioritize control and relevance over volume: you receive a smaller set of results, but from precisely defined peers

What are benchmark hubs and how should I use them? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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Benchmark hubs allow you to present entry points to multiple surveys on one page, so your invited users can self-select into one (or multiple) pre-selected surveys.

Do I get notified when results are ready? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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We send optional email notifications to requesters when survey results begin to come in, and when the final report is in. We cannot email respondents since they are anonymous

I’m a Respondent and want to join forces with my Requester to expand the survey. Can I do this? | FAQ | Salary Confidential

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We don't formally or technically a way for multiple users to own polls or surveys; but in practice, multiple users could decide to join forces to run a poll or a survey together

Features

Creating a Poll - How Salary Confidential Works | Salary Confidential

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Step-by-step guide to creating precise, private compensation polls. Learn how to design surveys, identify the right respondents, and get actionable salary insights.

Trust Circles - Salary Confidential | Salary Confidential

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Learn how Trust Circles work to connect survey respondents while maintaining privacy and security.

How Salary Confidential Protects Respondents' Privacy | Salary Confidential

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Your privacy as a survey respondent is essential to us. Learn about our comprehensive privacy protections.

How We Keep Your Data Safe - Salary Confidential | Salary Confidential

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Learn about Salary Confidential's comprehensive security measures to protect your privacy and sensitive compensation data.

Modeling Complex Equity Compensation - Salary Confidential | Salary Confidential

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How Salary Confidential analyzes equity compensation. Learn how the Equity Delivery Index and Liquidity Trajectory Index help compare complex equity packages.

Anonymous Compensation Surveys with K-Anonymity | Salary Confidential

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Collect and analyze salary data without exposing individuals. Salary Confidential uses k-anonymity, peer groups, and privacy-safe data modeling to deliver precise, actionable compensation benchmarks.

Compensation survey templates for salary surveys and benchmarking | Salary Confidential

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Configure compensation surveys in under 30 seconds with templated interview packs. Collect salary, bonus pay, equity, and benefits data with privacy-safe, k-anonymity based reporting.

Freelancer pricing survey templates for peer benchmarking | Salary Confidential

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Configure compensation surveys in under 30 seconds with templated interview packs. Collect salary, bonus pay, equity, and benefits data with privacy-safe, k-anonymity based reporting.

Run compensation surveys for associations, conferences & alumni groups | Salary Confidential

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Salary Confidential Organizations lets associations, conferences, and alumni communities sponsor confidential compensation benchmarks — delivering personalized insights to every participant while remaining an independent data steward.

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Last updated: July 14, 2026