About CareerVector

CareerVector is an independent career planning tool built for professionals making intentional moves: salary negotiations, role pivots, industry transitions, and remote-work decisions.

Why we built this

Career decisions are made with bad information. Most people accept the first salary offer, stay in roles that no longer fit, or pivot to industries without understanding the realistic salary trajectory. The data exists, but it's scattered across LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Payscale, levels.fyi, and dozens of country-specific salary surveys. Nobody synthesizes it.

CareerVector exists because we watched too many talented people undersell themselves. A senior engineer in Nairobi accepting a $40K offer for a role paying $80K in Cape Town. A marketing manager in Lagos taking a 15% raise when she should have negotiated 40%. A designer in Manila accepting a remote contract at local rates when global rates were 3x higher. The pattern repeats because the information asymmetry is enormous.

This tool gives you the data: realistic salary ranges by role and location, expected raise percentages for promotions vs lateral moves vs new-employer jumps, and negotiation tactics that actually work in 2026 hiring markets.

How we calibrate salary data

Our salary estimates blend multiple sources:

Public salary surveys: Robert Half, Hays, Michael Page, PwC, and country-specific equivalents publish annual surveys we incorporate.
Self-reported platforms: Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, Payscale, and LinkedIn salary insights provide crowdsourced data. We weight for sample size and recency.
Job posting analysis: Posted salary ranges from public job boards are tracked monthly across major markets.
Industry reports: CompTIA, BCG, McKinsey, and consulting firms publish role-specific compensation analysis.
Direct reports from readers: Anonymous salary submissions from CareerVector users help us refine estimates for under-covered roles and markets.

We update ranges quarterly and flag estimates with low sample confidence so you can interpret them appropriately. For senior roles in smaller markets, salary data is genuinely sparse — we say so when that's the case.

Who runs CareerVector

CareerVector is built by an independent team in Botswana with backgrounds in technology, recruiting, and HR analytics. We have firsthand experience with career transitions across African, Asian, and European markets, including remote-work negotiations during the 2020-2025 distributed-work expansion.

We are a small team currently working part-time on CareerVector alongside other commitments. Reader feedback drives most of our roadmap decisions.

How we monetize

CareerVector receives no payment from employers, recruiters, or job boards for editorial decisions. We are not affiliated with LinkedIn, Indeed, or any specific employer. Our monetization comes from two channels:

Display advertising via Google AdSense and similar networks. Ads appear in dedicated slots and never affect calculator results.
Affiliate referrals to career-development services we believe provide genuine value: resume-writing services, interview-prep platforms, online learning platforms, and the like. These relationships are disclosed and don't affect editorial content.

What's coming next

Our 2026 roadmap includes salary calculators for additional emerging markets (Bangladesh, Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil), industry-specific negotiation playbooks (tech, consulting, finance, healthcare), and a resume-pivot tool that maps current skills to adjacent roles with realistic salary trajectories.