Crewvale Chatter Pay Index
How the Crewvale Chatter Pay Index is computed
In short
The Chatter Pay Index aggregates the pay stated in the jobs on Crewvale’s jobs board, in US dollars. A figure is shown only when at least 5 jobs stand behind it, agencies and jobs are never named or ranked, and each quarterly edition is frozen when it is published.
What the index measures
Every job on Crewvale must state its pay. The index reports four figures from it: the median weekly base pay, the median commission rate on net sales and on gross sales (never mixed, because they mean different things), and the share of jobs open to people without experience. It also shows how jobs pay: fixed pay, a base plus commission, or commission only.
Which jobs count
Every job on the jobs board on the day an edition is taken: open, not expired, and posted by an agency creators can find on Crewvale. Closed and expired jobs do not count.
US dollars only
Chatters and VAs are usually paid in US dollars, and the index reports US dollars only. Jobs that pay in another currency are left out and counted, because Crewvale stores no exchange rates and never converts. Commission-only jobs have no currency and always count.
Roles, pay models and regions
Figures are given for all jobs together, then by role, by pay model and by where applicants may live (the Philippines, Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, and the EU, UK, US, Canada and Australia). A remote job counts in every region its applicants may live in, so the regions overlap and don’t add up to the total.
At least 5 jobs behind every figure
A figure is published only when at least 5 jobs stand behind it. Below that, the table says “not enough jobs yet” and the edition stores no value at all, so no figure can be traced back to a single agency or job.
How the figures are calculated
Base pay is the starting amount a job states (the lower end of a range), turned into pay per week: hourly pay times the job’s hours per week, monthly pay times 12 and divided by 52, yearly pay divided by 52. Hourly jobs that don’t state their hours are left out of that figure. A median is the middle value; with an even number of jobs, it is the average of the two middle values. Weekly pay is rounded to the whole dollar, commission to one decimal, shares to the whole percent.
What the index does not tell you
The figures describe the jobs posted on Crewvale, not every agency in the industry, and not the offer any one person will get. They are what jobs state, not what people were paid. Agencies cannot pay to appear in the index or to change it, and it never names or ranks them.
Editions
The index is taken once a quarter. Each edition is frozen when it is published: its figures never change afterwards, and later jobs appear in the next edition.
Using the data
Each edition can be downloaded as a CSV file and is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0): you may share and adapt it, also commercially, as long as you credit Crewvale. Each edition shows a suggested citation.
The first edition will be published when enough agencies post jobs on Crewvale.
All editions of the Chatter Pay Index