What a salary is actually worth, country by country.
A number in one currency tells you little. Market Intelligence converts salaries across countries into purchasing power, take-home pay and rent burden, shows where a country moves between the nominal and the real ranking, and writes you a personal brief that may only cite figures you can see on the same page.
What is Market Intelligence on insiderOne?
Market Intelligence is a cross-country comparison of what a role pays in real terms. Salary, tax, rent and purchasing power figures are researched from national statistics sources and validated, then converted into purchasing-power dollars, take-home pay and rent as a share of net income. It also produces a short personal brief and cited live news, with every figure traceable to the table it came from.
Named mechanisms, not adjectives.
Every one of these is implemented and can be pointed at. On a product whose pitch is that claims get checked, the description of it cannot be the one place that is not.
The rank shift
How far a country moves between the ranking by nominal salary and the ranking by purchasing power. It is the single most interesting number the data can produce, and it is computed, not estimated.
Take-home and rent burden, not gross
Effective tax rate and one-bedroom rent are applied so the comparison is what is left, not what is advertised. Missing figures are shown as missing, never as zero, and sort last so the list never shrinks when you change a control.
Freshness is on the page
The oldest and newest as-of dates behind the table are shown, so you know how current the comparison is.
A brief that can only cite what you can see
The personal brief must name the figure it came from, and any link it offers is resolved in code from a closed set, so a hallucinated route renders as plain text rather than a dead link.
Cited news, shared honestly
Live market news comes from grounded search with citations, cached for six hours and shared by everyone, so nobody gets a private version of the truth. A failed lookup says so rather than reporting no news.
In practice.
- See which offer is actually worth more after tax and rent.
- Spot the countries that look expensive but pay best in real terms, and the reverse.
- Read a brief you can audit line by line against the table above it.
- Know how old the numbers are.
Against Salary sites and cost-of-living calculators.
| insiderOne | Salary sites and cost-of-living calculators | |
|---|---|---|
| What is compared | Purchasing power, take-home and rent burden, in one view | Gross salary, or cost of living, separately |
| Where the numbers come from | Researched from statistics sources, validated, with as-of dates shown | User submissions of unknown age |
| The brief | May only cite figures on the page, with links resolved in code | Not offered, or generated without sources |
Questions, answered.
How many countries are compared?
Every country with researched metrics is included, and the count grows as research runs. The as-of dates on the page tell you how current each figure is.
What is the rank shift?
The difference between where a country ranks by nominal salary and where it ranks by purchasing power. A large shift means the headline number is misleading in one direction or the other.
Can I trust the brief?
It is written from the same figures in the table above it and must name which figure each claim came from. If it cannot show its working, it does not make the claim.