How to get salary data from job postings

Pay-transparency laws (New York, California, Colorado, Washington, and the EU Pay Transparency Directive) mean employers increasingly publish salary ranges in job posts. Company job boards expose that data as structured fields. Here’s where it lives.

ATS	Where salary lives	How often it’s present
Ashby	compensation.compensationTiers[].components[] (compensationType: "Salary", minValue, maxValue, currencyCode, interval) plus compensation.scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary	Very often for US roles
Lever	salaryRange (min, max, currency, interval)	Sometimes
Recruitee	salary (min, max, currency, period)	Sometimes
Greenhouse	Usually only inside the description text	Rarely structured

Ashby example (with the multi-tier fix)

import httpx

jobs = httpx.get("https://api.ashbyhq.com/posting-api/job-board/ramp", params={"includeCompensation": "true"}).json()["jobs"]
for j in jobs:
    comp = j.get("compensation") or {}
    salary = [c for t in comp.get("compensationTiers", []) for c in t.get("components", []) if c.get("compensationType") == "Salary"]
    if not salary:
        continue
    lo = min(c["minValue"] for c in salary if c.get("minValue") is not None)
    hi = max(c["maxValue"] for c in salary if c.get("maxValue") is not None)
    print(j["title"], comp.get("scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary"), lo, hi, salary[0]["currencyCode"])

The pitfall: a posting can have several tiers (by level or location). Reading only the first tier reports the wrong range. In our tests, “$174K–$266K” postings read as $194K–$266K. Take the min and max across all salary components.

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