Real compensation, hiring demand, and the skills behind it — measured from live postings and official statistics across categories and roles, not surveys.
Tracking 2,184 live postings across 4 countries — 2 across Latin America, with compensation for 12 roles, every figure labelled by source.
Real individual wages — salary disclosures in live postings (published at 30+ observations, outlier-filtered) plus government administrative micro-records (Brazil RAIS, Mexico IMSS). Census-grade, no self-selection.
Published official statistics (ILOSTAT, INEGI) and community surveys (sysarmy, Stack Overflow). Self-selection is flagged in the source detail and weighted down.
Where disclosure is thin, we anchor to public US BLS occupational wage data, mapped role by role — so every figure has a defensible floor.
Regional figures apply a transparent cost index and seniority multipliers. Every number on the page is labelled with how it was derived.
Demand refreshes weekly from live job postings across tracked ATS providers, LinkedIn, Indeed and community boards; stale postings retire after 10 days. Compensation cadence varies by source — government data is monthly to annual — and every figure shows its own "as of" date.
We annualize and FX-normalize every disclosed salary to USD, then compute p25 / p50 / p75 per role. Reported percentiles publish only once a role clears 30 observations; below that, figures fall back to official-statistics or BLS-anchored baselines, clearly labelled.
We source free, official government wage records — Brazil RAIS, Mexico IMSS, ILOSTAT — the same data paid vendors resell, with cleaner provenance. It is aggregated and anonymized, and it is why LATAM compensation on diiirect is more honest than survey-based competitors.
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Open the DevOps Engineer report →| Region | p25 | Median | p75 | vs. US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | $104K | $130K | $166K | — |
| Mexico | $34K | $42K | $54K | −68% |
| Brazil | $30K | $38K | $49K | −71% |