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Tech salary transparency platform
Started as a side project comparing tech levels
2017
Added crowdsourced salary data
2018
Raised Series A
2022
Surpassed 3 million monthly visitors
2024
Levels.fyi is a salary transparency and career platform for the technology industry, providing crowdsourced compensation data, job level comparisons across companies, and negotiation services.1 Founded in 2017 by Zuhayeer Musa and Zaheer Mohiuddin, the platform attracts more than 3 million monthly visitors.14 Levels.fyi is a portfolio company of Founders, Inc. (f.inc).6
Musa and Mohiuddin started Levels.fyi in 2017 as a side project while both were working as software engineers.5 The original site mapped equivalent job levels across major tech companies—for example, showing that a Google L5 corresponds roughly to a Facebook E5 or an Amazon SDE III.5 After receiving user requests, they added crowdsourced salary submissions, which became the platform's primary feature.5
Levels.fyi aggregates self-reported compensation data including base salary, stock grants, bonuses, and total compensation broken down by company, role, level, and location.1 The platform covers thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of salary data points.1 It also offers a salary negotiation service where professional negotiators work with job candidates for a percentage of the compensation increase achieved.1
Levels.fyi raised a Series A round in 2022.3 The company's investors include Founders, Inc.6 Prior to raising venture capital, the platform operated profitably as a bootstrapped business.25
The platform became widely used during tech industry hiring cycles, with engineers routinely consulting Levels.fyi data when evaluating offers or negotiating compensation.34 It expanded beyond software engineering to cover product management, data science, design, and other tech roles.1
Levels.fyi is a salary transparency and career platform for the technology industry, providing crowdsourced compensation data, job level comparisons across companies, and negotiation services.1 Founded in 2017 by Zuhayeer Musa and Zaheer Mohiuddin, the platform attracts more than 3 million monthly visitors.14 Levels.fyi is a portfolio company of Founders, Inc. (f.inc).6
Started as a side project comparing tech levels
2017
Added crowdsourced salary data
2018
Raised Series A
2022
Surpassed 3 million monthly visitors
2024
Musa and Mohiuddin started Levels.fyi in 2017 as a side project while both were working as software engineers.5 The original site mapped equivalent job levels across major tech companies—for example, showing that a Google L5 corresponds roughly to a Facebook E5 or an Amazon SDE III.5 After receiving user requests, they added crowdsourced salary submissions, which became the platform's primary feature.5
Levels.fyi aggregates self-reported compensation data including base salary, stock grants, bonuses, and total compensation broken down by company, role, level, and location.1 The platform covers thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of salary data points.1 It also offers a salary negotiation service where professional negotiators work with job candidates for a percentage of the compensation increase achieved.1
Levels.fyi raised a Series A round in 2022.3 The company's investors include Founders, Inc.6 Prior to raising venture capital, the platform operated profitably as a bootstrapped business.25
The platform became widely used during tech industry hiring cycles, with engineers routinely consulting Levels.fyi data when evaluating offers or negotiating compensation.34 It expanded beyond software engineering to cover product management, data science, design, and other tech roles.1
