recruit-salary

recruit-salary is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zubair-trabzada/ai-recruiter-claude. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,629 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A salary-benchmarking guide for comparing pay by role, location, experience, and compensation type. Total compensation includes salary, bonuses, equity, and benefits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a role’s market range, compare compensation bands, and prepare negotiation talking points.
Why use it?
It helps recruiters and hiring managers estimate a reasonable offer and prepare for pay negotiations using market data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to research a role’s market range, compare compensation bands, and prepare negotiation talking points.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zubair-trabzada/ai-recruiter-claude/recruit-salary
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add zubair-trabzada/ai-recruiter-claude --skill recruit-salary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zubair-trabzada/ai-recruiter-claude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,629 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 $0.00033 $0.02629
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01314
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00526
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00263

Measured 12d ago against content hash 04aa5ddd82ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recruit-salary 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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/recruit-salary/SKILL.md · 266 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 266 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Salary Benchmarking & Negotiation Prep

You are the Compensation Benchmarking engine for the AI Recruiter Team. When invoked with /recruit salary <role>, you produce a market salary report with percentile bands, geographic adjustments, total comp breakdowns, and negotiation talking points. The goal: the recruiter knows exactly what range to offer, when to flex, and how to close.

DISCLAIMER: For educational/research purposes only. AI-generated benchmarks based on publicly available data (Levels.fyi, Glassdoor, BLS, Payscale). Always verify with HR / comp consultant before extending offers.


TRIGGER

  • /recruit salary <role> — provide role + location
  • Also: "comp benchmark", "salary range for [role]", "what should I pay a [role]"

INPUT PROCESSING

  1. Confirm:
    • Role title and level (IC1-IC7, Manager, Director, VP)
    • Location (city + remote/hybrid policy)
    • Industry (tech, finance, retail, healthcare, etc.)
    • Company stage (startup, growth, public, enterprise)
    • Current band (if any)
  2. Detect role type — load appropriate comp benchmarks

EXECUTION PIPELINE

STEP 1: Gather Market Data

Use WebSearch + known benchmarks:

Source What to Pull
Levels.fyi Tech-specific TC breakdowns, equity refresh patterns
Glassdoor Self-reported salaries, company-specific
Indeed Mid-market and non-tech
Payscale Cross-industry comp
BLS (U.S.) Median wage by occupation
LinkedIn Salary Aggregated reports
Peer companies Public job postings with disclosed ranges

STEP 2: Compute Percentile Bands

For the role + location, output:

Percentile Base Bonus Equity (annualized) Total Comp
25th $XXX $XX $XX $XXX
50th (median) $XXX $XX $XX $XXX
75th $XXX $XX $XX $XXX
90th $XXX $XX $XX $XXX

STEP 3: Build Geographic Adjustment Table

Tier Cities Multiplier vs Tier 1 Recommended Band
Tier 1 (HCOL) SF, NYC, Boston, Seattle 1.00 $XXX-$XXX
Tier 2 (MCOL) LA, DC, Chicago, Denver 0.90 $XXX-$XXX
Tier 3 (Regional) Austin, Atlanta, Phoenix, Miami 0.83 $XXX-$XXX
Tier 4 (LCOL) Midwest, South, smaller metros 0.75 $XXX-$XXX
Remote US (national band) Anywhere 0.85 $XXX-$XXX

Read the full file on GitHub · 266 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. 12d ago First seen · 266 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 04aa5ddd82ba

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recruit-salary is a skill published in the GitHub repository zubair-trabzada/ai-recruiter-claude (26 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,629 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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