September 27, 2006 9:28 AM

A cool salary tool, indeed
Posted by Douglas Eisenhartat 9:28 AM

Jobs aggregator Indeed.com (partially owned by BostonWorks and the Globe's parent firm The New York Times) is launching a nifty new salary tool on their site. It uses rolling 12-month data from their millions of aggregated job listings to assess salary levels for a broad range of positions.

From the company's blog post on the beta launch of the new tool, called Salary Search:

It’s Market-based. Most salary tools are based on historic survey data that may not be accurate or up-to-date. Indeed Salary Search shows you what current job openings are paying - which is what matters if you are in the job market. Traditional survey-based salary tools can be poor at tracking completely new kinds of job - Iraq Reconstruction Program Advisor, for example - whereas Indeed monitors the very latest jobs as they are published.

You can put a geographic filter on it as well, say "Sales Manager" in "Boston".

Read the whole blog post here. Check out the Salary Search tool here.