Editorial Policy

Coverage priorities

We cover work that helps a reader choose, find, or evaluate a publishing role: occupations, hiring paths, pay evidence, and the shape of departments. Early-career readers come first. Specialist tracks get room when we can describe the work without dressing it up as a lifestyle.

A missing guide is better than a stub that repeats the homepage. We would rather send you to a complete orientation page than to a decorative URL.

Official sources and salary surveys

Occupational data from statistical agencies can appear when we can cite the series, the period, the geography, and the scope. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics figures on the salaries page are an example: they are labelled as industry-grouped or occupation-wide, and they are not sold as a promise to an assistant editor.

Named surveys can be cited if a reader can see who ran them, when, and on what sample. A chart without a method is decoration. We do not blend official medians with hallway estimates. We do not convert a national midpoint into a house-by-house ranking.

Employer-posting checks

A job listing on this site needs a distinct title, an employer, a location or remote status, a source link, a date checked, a contract type if known, a salary only if advertised, and an application destination. Expired or unverified posts stay unpublished. Sample vacancies written to look busy are not used.

Until those checks exist for a live role, the jobs page explains the work rather than simulating a board.

Corrections

Factual mistakes — a wrong wage year, a mislabelled occupation, a broken internal link — should be corrected on the page, not quietly sanded out of memory. Where a change is substantial, a short note on the page can record the update. There is no excuse for leaving a known error in public HTML once it has been confirmed.

Advertising and editorial

Editorial pages do not treat advertisers as employers, trainers, or career partners. If an outbound commercial placement appears, it is labelled as an advertisement, kept visually separate, and given relationship attributes that mark it as sponsored. A gambling or gaming destination is not a publishing resource. It must not sit inside a jobs list or a salary table.

We do not sell the sentence that introduces a career track. Sponsored language does not belong in how-to copy.

Reader-submitted data

This publication does not collect anonymous salary submissions. A genuine collection service, a privacy explanation and aggregation thresholds would be required before any such dataset could appear. We will not preview fake observations.

Reporting inaccuracies

Send corrections through the contact page or to [email protected]. Include a URL, a description of the error and a supporting reference where you have one.

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