CheckMyPayRate — open salary benchmarks + MCP server

Salary benchmarks for 20 countries and 13 sectors, derived from official OECD and Eurostat statistics. Gross annual pay in each country's own currency.

🌐 Website: https://checkmypayrate.com 📊 Live dataset (updated daily): https://checkmypayrate.com/data 📐 Methodology: https://checkmypayrate.com/methodology

Dataset

salary-benchmarks.csv — snapshot of the benchmark table
Live CSV: https://checkmypayrate.com/api/public/dataset/csv
Live JSON: https://checkmypayrate.com/api/public/dataset/json

Columns: country_code, country_name, sector, monthly_value, annual_value, currency, reference_year, source, last_updated

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Belgium, Denmark

Sectors: national average, IT & software, finance & insurance, energy & utilities, professional & consulting, manufacturing, public administration, healthcare, education, construction, transport & logistics, retail & wholesale, hospitality & food

How the figures are built

National average — OECD average annual wages per full-time equivalent employee (series AV_AN_WAGE).
Sector ratio — Eurostat national accounts (nama_10_a64): compensation of employees ÷ number of employees, relative to the whole economy.
- 14 EU countries + Norway: each country's own Eurostat sector ratios
- Canada and Australia: EU-27 average sector structure (marked as an estimate)
- Switzerland: only sectors with Swiss data
- United States and United Kingdom: no sector figures; the website offers occupation-level pay from BLS and ONS instead
Sector benchmark = national average × sector ratio.

Limitations: sector figures are modelled estimates, not directly measured salaries. Sector ratios are per employee, not per full-time equivalent, so sectors with many part-time workers (healthcare, education, retail, hospitality) may appear lower than full-time pay. Figures are not adjusted for cost of living.

MCP server

A remote MCP server lets AI assistants query the benchmarks directly.

Endpoint: https://checkmypayrate.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP)
Authentication: none required

Tools

Tool	Description
`list_options`	Supported country and sector codes
`get_salary_benchmark`	Benchmark for a country and sector
`compare_salary`	Compare a salary with the benchmark as a percentage

License

Dataset: CC BY 4.0. Attribution: "Data via checkmypayrate.com (OECD/Eurostat-derived salary benchmarks)". Underlying sources: OECD and Eurostat, used under their respective reuse terms.