But your post highlights the inherent problems with just listing people's experience and salary: - location matters - two people in the same industry, same exp

But your post highlights the inherent problems with just listing people's experience and salary: - location matters - two people in the same industry, same experience, same title , different locations may have very different salaries - equity and bonus matters - some people want to structure their comp for more upside in an exit, others want more base, some people like bonuses. A sales person at an enterprise software company might make 165k base and then make another 165k in commission and bonus - "experience" is variable - if i spent four years as an engineer, before spending 1 year as a product manager, do I have 5 years of experience or 1? Simply listing numbers makes it difficult to assess whether you really are over-or-under-paid relative to your peers.