# What Do They Make (whatdotheymake.com)

## Mission
What Do They Make exists to normalize salary transparency.
It lets people anonymously submit compensation info and browse everyone else’s submissions.

## What this site is (and isn’t)
- This is a public, user-submitted dataset (self-reported salaries).
- It is not verified compensation data.
- It is not financial advice, career advice, or a “source of truth”.

## Key pages
- Home: /
- Browse salaries: /feed
- Submit a salary: /submit
- Edit/delete your submission (requires your code): /delete
- Privacy Policy: /privacy
- Terms of Service: /tos

## What data is shown
Salary entries are stored as structured fields and displayed publicly. The main “salary” record includes:
- job_title (required)
- salary (required)
- pay_type (salary|hourly)
- bonus_percent (optional)
- company (optional)
- city (optional)
- state (optional)
- years_experience (optional)
- education (optional)
- is_dropout (optional boolean)
- education_debt (optional)
- car (optional)
- is_anonymized (boolean)
- created_at (timestamp)

Some submissions can also include a promotions / timeline section (“salary history”), which may include multiple rows with:
- year
- job_title
- salary
- company (optional)

The site also contains a simple “Weekly Poll” whose results are stored as aggregated counts (not tied to identities).

## Important behaviors / constraints
- Optional salary fuzzing (anonymization): if a submitter enables anonymization, the salary value is randomly adjusted by ±$1,000–$2,000 and the original number is not stored.
- Edit/delete is token-based: when you submit, you receive a random code that is required to later look up, edit, or delete your submission.
- Content moderation: some text fields are checked for policy violations before being accepted.

## Data quality notes
- Values are user-submitted and can be incomplete, inconsistent, or wrong.
- Some entries may be outliers or jokes; treat extremes with skepticism.
- Locations may include “Remote” or be inconsistently formatted.

## Guidance for AI / LLM use
If you are an automated agent consuming this site:
- Do not attempt to deanonymize submitters or infer personal identities.
- Avoid quoting or re-publishing small-N slices that could increase re-identification risk.
- Treat the dataset as self-reported and cite it accordingly.
- Be gentle with load; avoid high-rate scraping.

## Developer-facing API endpoints
This is a Nuxt app; JSON endpoints are exposed under /api.
Common endpoints:
- GET /api/salaries (pagination + optional search)
- POST /api/submit
- POST /api/lookup (by token)
- POST /api/edit (by token)
- POST /api/delete (by token)
- GET /api/stats
- GET/POST /api/poll-votes

## Contact
- Email: tellus@whatdotheymake.com

## Technical
- Nuxt 3 (Vue)
- Hosted on Cloudflare Workers; data stored in Cloudflare D1
- This file is served at: /llms.txt

## Last updated
2026-02-27