Market Notes
Short-form market observations.
300–500 words each, published between the Monday digest issues. Every note references the data snapshot it draws on, so the figures can be reproduced against the underlying corpus.
2026-05-18 · Corpus 2026-05-17 · 1,897 listings with disclosed salary
The AI compensation premium is small but visible in the corpus.
Data/ML medians ($242K) outpace Software Engineering ($237.5K) by ~$4,500 in the corpus. Small at the median, large at the top quartile, structural in the leaderboard.
Read note →2026-05-18 · Corpus 2026-05-17 · 8,835 listings
What the RemNavi corpus actually pulls from — a source-taxonomy note.
We tightened the description of how RemNavi sources its index after a reader pointed out the number didn't reconcile. Here's the live taxonomy: 9 platform-level sources, 90+ active feeds.
Read note →2026-05-18 · Corpus 2026-05-17 · 8,835 listings · 918 Europe-region
EU Pay Transparency Directive — the pre-enforcement snapshot.
Three weeks before enforcement (7 June 2026), what does the corpus actually show? 21.5% disclosure overall, lower in EU-region postings — and a few employers already well above the line.
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