Global Salary Atlas is built on public, verifiable data — not crowdsourced guesses. Here's exactly where our figures come from.
National statistics offices and labour ministries publish wage and employment data as part of their regular economic reporting. Where available, these figures anchor our average salary estimates for a country.
Income tax estimates are based on published tax bracket and rate information from each country's tax authority, applied at the average salary level for that country.
International organizations such as the IMF, World Bank, OECD, and ILO (International Labour Organization) publish comparative economic and labour-market indicators — cost of living, purchasing power, employment, and development metrics — that inform our cost-of-living and quality-of-life scoring. These are named here as examples of the type of institution we draw on, not as a claim of live or automated access to their systems.
Cost-of-living scoring draws on publicly available cost-of-living datasets covering housing, groceries, transport, and everyday expenses, alongside the multilateral indicators above.
Where government data is sparse for a specific profession, we supplement with independent, non-sponsored compensation surveys to estimate profession-level salary figures.
Note: the organizations and source types listed on this page are named as examples of the categories of public data we draw on. We do not claim real-time or automated data-feed access to any specific institution's systems.
No figure is published automatically. Every update passes through a human review step before going live — see the Verification Process section of our Methodology page for the full process.
If you spot a figure that looks outdated or inconsistent with a source you trust, please let us know — corrections are reviewed and applied on our regular update cycle. See our Editorial Policy for how corrections are handled.