salary-benchmarking

salary-benchmarking is a cursor rule for Cursor from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 141 tokens per session (1,109 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for estimating fair pay for a specific role, based on market data and factors such as location, seniority, industry, skills, and company size.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research market pay, judge whether your salary is fair, place yourself within a pay range, and prepare evidence for a compensation discussion.
Why use it?
It reduces reliance on one possibly outdated salary figure. It gives you a defensible low, target, and high range instead of a guess.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it to research market pay, judge whether your salary is fair, place yourself within a pay range, and prepare evidence for a compensation discussion.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/salary-benchmarking
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,352 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 141 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,109 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00141 $0.01109
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.00554
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00111

Measured 7d ago against content hash 22f4c118c8d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

salary-benchmarking scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

exports/cursor/pm-career/salary-benchmarking/salary-benchmarking.mdc · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Salary Benchmarking

"Am I underpaid?" and "what should I ask for?" both need the same thing: a defensible number, not a guess or a single glassdoor figure. This builds that range by triangulating sources and adjusting for the factors that actually move pay — level, location, industry, skills, company size — then places you within the band and helps you frame it. (Making the ask itself is a separate negotiation skill.)

What This Skill Produces

  • A research method — how to build a range from multiple sources (surveys, aggregators, postings, peers, recruiters) rather than one figure
  • The adjusting factors — how level/seniority, location/cost-of-living, industry, in-demand skills, and company size/stage shift the number
  • Your position in the band — a reasoned estimate of where you likely sit (and why), given your experience and value
  • A defensible range — a low/target/high you can justify with the factors behind it
  • Framing guidance — how to state the number and the evidence, without overclaiming
  • A triangulation caveat — pay data is noisy and often stale; cross-check, and adjust for your specifics

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The role — title, level/seniority, and field
  • Location — and whether the role is remote (which market applies)
  • Your profile — years, key/in-demand skills, notable results
  • Context — current pay, company size/industry, and the goal (raise, offer, new role)
  • Sources seen — any numbers you already have

Framework: Triangulate, Adjust, Position

  1. Use multiple sources. No single site is truth — combine salary surveys, aggregators, live job postings, peer/recruiter input, and community data to form a range.
  2. Adjust for the real drivers. Level, location/cost-of-living, industry, scarce skills, and company size/stage can each shift pay substantially — apply them to the raw range.
  3. Place yourself honestly. Position within the band based on your actual experience, skills, and results — not aspiration or imposter-driven lowballing.
  4. Build a defensible range. Produce a low/target/high with the reasoning, so the number survives scrutiny.
  5. Frame with evidence, not entitlement. Present the number tied to market data and your value; avoid a single cherry-picked figure or an unbacked demand.
  6. Caveat the data. It's noisy and can lag the market — triangulate and adjust rather than trusting one source or a stale number.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 71 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A 22f4c118c8d2

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salary-benchmarking is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,352 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 1,109 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.