How A Day's Wage Works

At A Day's Wage, we believe in transparency and empowering individuals with valuable insights into salary trends. Our platform makes it easy to contribute your salary data, creating a powerful, community-driven resource to help everyone understand compensation better.

1. Contribute Your Data (Anonymously & Securely)

The heart of A Day's Wage is the data contributed by users like you. Sharing your salary information helps grow our collective knowledge base, making it more accurate and comprehensive for everyone.

  • Simple Submission: Our intuitive form on the homepage guides you through providing key details about your compensation, job, experience, and location. We focus on non-identifiable information to protect your privacy.
  • Secure & Validated: When you submit your data, it's sent directly to our secure database. Our system automatically validates every entry to ensure accuracy and consistency (e.g., checking that salary figures are within a realistic range, and that all required fields are complete). This helps maintain the quality of the data pool.
  • No Personal Identifiable Information (PII): We **do not** collect your name, email address, or any other information that could directly identify you. Your privacy is paramount.
  • Immutability: Once your data is submitted and validated, it becomes a permanent part of our dataset. This means it cannot be altered or deleted by anyone from the client-side, ensuring the integrity and stability of the aggregated information.

2. Our Data Processing

Once your data is successfully contributed, it immediately becomes part of our growing dataset.

  • Real-time Integration: Your validated entry is instantly added to the `salaryData` collection in our secure Cloud Firestore database.
  • Raw Data, Not Derived: We store the raw, validated information you provide. We don't perform complex calculations or aggregations on the fly in the database itself at this stage.

Why Your Contribution Matters

Every piece of data contributed makes our platform stronger and more useful.

  • Empowerment: By sharing your information, you contribute to a transparent job market where everyone has access to fair and accurate compensation data.
  • Accuracy: The more data we have, the more precise and representative any future salary insights (which would be generated by the app) will become.
  • Community-Driven: A Day's Wage is built by the community, for the community. Your participation directly benefits countless others.

Data Privacy and Security Commitment

Your trust is our priority. Here's how we handle your data:

  • Anonymity First: As mentioned, we strictly avoid collecting any PII. Your contributions are anonymous.
  • Secure Infrastructure: We leverage Google's Firebase platform, which provides robust security features, data encryption, and reliable infrastructure.
  • Read-Only Public Data: The raw salary entries are designed to be publicly readable. This allows our application (and potentially future features) to aggregate and present this anonymous data directly in your browser. We ensure no sensitive or identifying information is ever stored in this publicly accessible dataset.
  • No Client-Side Updates/Deletes: Once data is contributed, it's permanently stored. This protects the integrity of our dataset from malicious or accidental alterations by client-side operations.

Ready to Contribute?

Help us build a more transparent job market by sharing your experience.

Submit Your Data