Our Mission
We believe every professional deserves to know their true market value. mycareer.pro was founded to flatten the information asymmetry that has long given employers an unfair advantage in compensation negotiations.
The Story Behind mycareer.pro
mycareer.pro was born from a simple but frustrating reality: compensation is one of the most important factors in a professional's life, yet reliable salary data has historically been locked behind expensive enterprise paywalls or buried in opaque, self-reported surveys.
Our founding team brings together decades of experience across human resources leadership, talent acquisition, workforce analytics, and technology. Having spent years on both sides of the hiring table — advising Fortune 500 companies on compensation strategy while also coaching individual professionals through career transitions — we witnessed firsthand the profound information gap that shapes every salary negotiation.
We saw talented engineers accept offers 20% below market because they lacked context. We watched HR teams lose top candidates because their benchmarks were two years stale. We observed how this opacity disproportionately affected women, minorities, and professionals in emerging markets who had even less access to reliable compensation data.
We decided it was time to change that.
Founded 2024
By a team of veteran HR leaders, data scientists, and technologists united by a shared mission.
Global Reach
Serving professionals across 80+ locations on 6 continents with localized market intelligence.
What We Stand For
Our values guide every product decision, from how we collect data to how we present insights.
Transparency
We show our confidence scores, data sources, and methodology. No black boxes.
Privacy First
All submissions are anonymized. We never sell personal data or share individual records.
Equity
We believe fair pay starts with fair access to information, regardless of background.
Accuracy
Multi-source data fusion from government, platform, and crowd-sourced data for reliable estimates.
Leadership Team
Industry veterans who have spent decades shaping compensation strategy at leading organizations.
James Richardson
Co-Founder & CEO
Former VP of Total Rewards at a Fortune 100 technology company. 20+ years in compensation strategy and workforce analytics.
Sarah Park
Co-Founder & CPO
Former Head of People Analytics at a global consulting firm. Led compensation benchmarking programs across 40+ countries.
Michael Kowalski
Co-Founder & CTO
Former engineering director at a leading HR tech unicorn. Built AI-powered talent platforms serving millions of users.
Our Approach
We combine multiple data sources with AI analysis to deliver the most accurate salary intelligence available to individual professionals.
Multi-Source Data
We aggregate data from government labor statistics (BLS), job posting platforms (Adzuna, Glassdoor), published compensation surveys, and our growing crowd-sourced database of anonymized submissions.
Confidence Scoring
Every estimate comes with a transparent confidence score (0-100) that tells you exactly how much data backs our numbers. We show which sources contributed and how they were weighted.
Community-Powered
Every salary analysis you run contributes anonymized data back to the platform, making estimates more accurate for everyone. The more professionals who participate, the better the intelligence becomes.