Wagegap is a crowdsourced wage benchmark built for nurses. Enter your role, location, experience, and hourly — unlock exactly where you stand against the rest of your specialty in your metro.
You're being paid less than the typical ICU RN in your metro with the same experience and shift. The 75th percentile is $6.80/hr above you.
Give-to-get. You contribute one verified wage to see the rest. No employer can pay to alter your read.
Specialty, metro, years of experience, shift type, employer, hourly + differentials.
Percentile by specialty, metro, employer, and shift. Not a vague national average.
Browse Fair-Pay Certified employers in your metro. Apply directly. We never sell your data.
Levels.fyi, Glassdoor and Payscale weren't designed for hourly workers, shift differentials, or the realities of bedside nursing. We are.
| Wagegap | Levels.fyi | Glassdoor | Payscale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built for nursing | Yes | Tech only | Generic | Generic |
| Hourly + shift differentials | Yes | No | Loose | Loose |
| Employer-level reads | Yes | Yes | Anonymous | No |
| Worker-funded · employer-firewalled | Yes | Recruiting-funded | Employer-funded | Employer-funded |
| Fair-pay certification | Yes — earned | No | No | No |
Employers cannot buy the Fair-Pay badge, raise their percentile, hide unflattering data, or pay to be ranked higher. The benchmark is the benchmark. We are accountable to workers because workers are the only audience whose trust we cannot afford to lose.
Pay above the verified market rate for the specialty and metro, and the badge is yours — visible to every nurse on the platform. Stop, and it's gone.
Always. Submissions are anonymized before they enter the benchmark. We never display individual wages — only aggregated percentiles. Your employer cannot see what you submitted.
We seed from public and FOIA-able payroll data, then verify worker submissions using paystub uploads, email-domain matching, and statistical outlier detection. Junk gets filtered out.
Because pay data only stays current if real workers keep contributing. One submission unlocks full access; the benchmark gets sharper for every nurse who comes after you.
No. Employers can earn certification by paying fairly, and pay for recruiting access — but they have zero ability to move the benchmark, suppress data, or alter percentiles. That wall is the product.
One verified wage. Sixty seconds. A real answer about where you stand — and a list of employers in your metro who pay above the market rate.
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