Levels.fyi Salary Scraper

Levels.fyi Salary Scraper

Scrape Levels.fyi salary data for any company and job family, up to a million records per run. Every record includes base pay, stock, bonus, years of experience, and location. No login or API key. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.

Levels.fyi publishes crowd-sourced compensation data for tech companies, but there is no official API and manual browsing is slow. This Actor reads the public salary pages directly, filtered by company and job family, and returns each compensation record in one fixed schema.

Who uses it	What they scrape Levels.fyi for
Recruiters	Benchmarking offers against market pay for a role
Job seekers	Comparing compensation across companies before negotiating
Compensation analysts	Building salary datasets for internal pay bands
Market researchers	Tracking pay trends in the tech industry

What it does

This Actor collects Levels.fyi salary records by company, job family, or direct URL, and returns each one as a flat row.

• 🏢 Company and job family filters: scrape multiple companies and roles in one run, e.g. google, meta, microsoft for software-engineer.
• 🔗 Direct URL mode: paste any Levels.fyi salary page URL to scrape exactly that page.
• ⚡ High throughput: parallel requests with configurable concurrency up to 10.
• 📊 Structured output: every record is a flat row with base pay, stock, bonus, and more.

Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML, or straight from the API.

What you can do with Levels.fyi data

💰 Benchmark job offers.

A recruiter scrapes Levels.fyi for software engineer salaries at Google, Meta, and Microsoft to see if their offer is competitive.

📈 Track compensation trends.

A market researcher runs the Actor monthly for data scientist roles across top tech companies to spot pay shifts.

🤝 Prepare for negotiations.

A job seeker scrapes salary data for product manager roles at their target companies to anchor their ask.

🧮 Build internal pay bands.

A compensation analyst collects Levels.fyi data for multiple job families to calibrate their company's salary ranges.

Why choose this scraper

	What you get
No official API	Levels.fyi has no public API, so this Actor is the fastest way to get structured salary data.
Crowd-sourced accuracy	Data comes from real employee submissions, giving you market rates that job boards miss.
Flexible targeting	Scrape by company, job family, or exact URL, with up to a million records per run.
Clean exports	Get CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML files ready for analysis in any tool.

How it compares

This Actor focuses on salary data only, while the Levels.fyi Jobs Scraper targets job listings. Choose based on the data you need.

Feature	ParseForge	Levels.fyi Jobs Scraper 📊
Salary data (base, stock, bonus)	Yes	Not listed
Job listings	No	Yes
Filter by company	Yes	Not listed
Filter by job family	Yes	Not listed
Direct URL scraping	Yes	Not listed
Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, XML	Yes	Not listed

Configure the run

Drive the Actor from company slugs, job family slugs, and direct URLs, alone or together, and filters run as each page is read so only matching records reach your dataset. The Input tab lists every parameter.

A first run with the defaults:

{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "companies": [
    "google",
    "meta",
    "microsoft"
  ],
  "jobFamilies": [
    "software-engineer"
  ]
}

A larger pull:

{
  "maxItems": 200,
  "companies": [
    "google",
    "meta",
    "microsoft"
  ],
  "jobFamilies": [
    "software-engineer"
  ]
}

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.01599 per result collected. You pay only for the results written to your dataset.

Results collected	Approximate cost
100 results	$1.60
1,000 results	$15.99
10,000 results	$159.90

New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit.

Free users

Free-plan runs return up to 10 results as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.

Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the Levels.fyi Salary Scraper.
3. Set your inputs and any filters, then click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to Levels.fyi through the Model Context Protocol. Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client:

claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=parseforge/levels-fyi-scraper"

Then prompt it in plain language to run the scraper and read back the results.

Troubleshooting

Why am I getting no results?

Check that your company and job family slugs are correct. They must match the URL slugs on Levels.fyi, e.g. 'software-engineer' not 'Software Engineer'. Also ensure the combination exists on the site.

The Actor returns fewer records than Max records.

Levels.fyi may not have that many salary submissions for your filters. Try broadening the job family or adding more companies.

I get an error when using a Start URL.

Make sure the URL is a valid Levels.fyi salary page, like https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-engineer. Other page types may not work.

The run is slow.

Increase Max Concurrency up to 10 to speed up parallel requests, but be mindful of rate limits.

Some fields are empty in the output.

Not all salary records have every field filled. Empty fields mean the data was not provided on Levels.fyi for that record.

FAQ

Question	Answer
Does this Actor require a Levels.fyi account or API key?	No. It reads the public salary pages directly, so no login or API key is needed.
Can I scrape multiple companies at once?	Yes. Use the Companies input to list company slugs like google, meta, apple, and the Actor will scrape them all in one run.
What job families can I scrape?	Any job family slug that exists on Levels.fyi, such as software-engineer, product-manager, or data-scientist. Check the site for the exact slug.
How do I scrape a specific salary page?	Paste the full URL into the Start URL input. The Actor will scrape that page only, ignoring company and job family filters.
What data fields are returned?	Each record includes compensation details like base pay, stock, bonus, years of experience, and location, plus company and job family. See the sample output for the full schema.
Is there a limit on how many records I can scrape?	You can set Max records up to 1,000,000 per run. The default is 10.
Can I export the data to Excel or CSV?	Yes. The Actor supports CSV, JSON, Excel, and XML exports.
Does this Actor scrape job listings too?	No, this Actor focuses on salary data. For job listings, see the Levels.fyi Jobs Scraper.
How fast is the scraping?	You can set Max Concurrency up to 10 parallel requests to speed up large runs.
Is the data up to date?	The Actor scrapes live pages, so you get the latest salary submissions on Levels.fyi at the time of the run.

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⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Levels.fyi, Inc. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the collected data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and PIPL. Do not use it to collect personal data unlawfully.