Why does the Google Jobs salary estimator give such wildly different ranges for the exact same remote software engineering job title?
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
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Why does the Google Jobs salary estimator give such wildly different ranges for the exact same remote software engineering job title?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
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Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
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Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 1 of 1 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
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Google Jobs salary estimates methodology salary range job title location remote estimates sources Google ↗
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- Make your site's complete jobs information accessible to job seekers | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers · developers.google.com
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