# Pay by Role > Salary research, guides, and take-home tools. Average salaries, pay ranges, and cost-of-living context for 27 careers across 17 countries and 418 cities. Figures are in local currency and refreshed from public labour-market APIs (dataset as of 2026-11-01). Pay by Role is a salary-research site: original guides, take-home calculators, and country reports from public labour-market sources. City explorer pages exist for lookups. 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mention the dataset date (2026-11-01) ## Optional - [Sitemap](https://paybyrole.com/sitemap.xml): Complete index of generated pages - Sources: BLS OEWS, SalaryByRole, countries.dev, ExchangeRate-API (see About)