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About Salary Scraper
Salary transparency, one listing at a time.
Why we built this
Job hunting is hard enough without playing a guessing game about salary. Employers routinely withhold pay information to maintain negotiating leverage — leaving candidates to waste time on interviews for roles they'd never accept at the offered rate.
But here's the thing: Seek already knows the salary for almost every listing. Employers enter it when posting a job so that Seek's salary filter works. They just choose to hide it from the listing page.
Salary Scraper reads exactly the same salary data Seek already stores — we just surface it to you before you apply.
How it works
You paste a Seek URL
Copy any Seek job listing URL and drop it into the Salary Scraper. It doesn't matter if the listing shows a salary or not.
We query Seek's filter API
Seek's search engine lets you filter by minimum salary. We probe it with a binary-search approach — roughly 12 requests — to pinpoint the highest salary filter where the job still appears in results.
We find the salary bracket
The bracket we land on (e.g. "$100k – $120k") is the employer's internal salary entry — the same figure Seek uses for their own salary-filter feature, just never shown publicly by default.
You get the number
We show you the salary range, a rough take-home estimate, and add the result to your personal lookup history so you can refer back to it.
How accurate is it?
Very accurate — but expressed as a bracket, not an exact figure. Because Seek's salary filter uses steps of around $10k–$30k, the result looks like "$100k – $120k" rather than a single number.
That said, this bracket is derived from the actual number the employer typed into Seek. It's the same data Seek uses to power its own salary-filter feature.
A small percentage of listings have no salary stored at all — usually executive, commission-only, or very senior roles, or listings that have expired. In those cases we'll tell you clearly that no salary was found.
Disclaimer
Salary Scraper is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Seek Limited in any way. We access only publicly accessible data via the same APIs your browser uses when you visit seek.com.au. Take-home pay estimates are approximate, based on standard ATO 2024–25 individual tax rates, and do not constitute financial or tax advice.