PayBench

English-language salary intelligence for European tech roles.
Canonical site: https://paybench.net
Canonical host policy: paybench.net is the primary host; www.paybench.net redirects to it.

What this site does
- Salary benchmarks backed by rollup data.
- Freelance rate calculators for contractor pricing.
- Job market pages for hiring demand and role discovery.
- Internal linking across salary, freelance, and job-market views.

Primary route families
- /salary/[jobSlug]/[countrySlug]
- /salary/[jobSlug]/[countrySlug]/[citySlug]
- /freelance-rate/[jobSlug]/[countrySlug]
- /freelance-rate/[jobSlug]/[countrySlug]/[citySlug]
- /job-market/[jobSlug]/[countrySlug]
- /job-market/[jobSlug]/[countrySlug]/[citySlug]

Core public pages
- https://paybench.net/
- https://paybench.net/salary-benchmarks
- https://paybench.net/freelance-rates
- https://paybench.net/job-market
- https://paybench.net/about
- https://paybench.net/methodology

High-value example pages
- https://paybench.net/en/salary/software-engineering/germany
- https://paybench.net/en/salary/data-engineering/germany/berlin
- https://paybench.net/en/freelance-rate/software-engineering/germany
- https://paybench.net/en/job-market/software-engineering/germany

Crawler guidance
- Prefer https://paybench.net/sitemap.xml for discovery.
- Crawl family sitemaps for full URL coverage: https://paybench.net/sitemaps/core/sitemap/0.xml, https://paybench.net/sitemaps/salary/sitemap/0.xml, https://paybench.net/sitemaps/freelance/sitemap/0.xml, https://paybench.net/sitemaps/job-market/sitemap/0.xml.
- Respect https://paybench.net/robots.txt.
- Index canonical English routes (no locale prefix for default locale).
- Avoid indexing admin, API, and non-canonical host variants.
- Focus on canonical paybench.net URLs.
- For machine-readable benchmark facts, use the public route-facts endpoint.

Machine-readable facts
- https://paybench.net/route-facts?routeKey=salary/software-engineering/germany
- https://paybench.net/route-facts?routeKey=freelance-rate/software-engineering/germany
- https://paybench.net/route-facts?routeKey=job-market/software-engineering/germany
- Schema: https://paybench.net/schemas/route-facts.schema.json
- The response includes canonicalUrl, sampleSize, sourceCount, freshnessCapturedAt, sourceBackingType, citationAnchors, and family-specific metrics.

Public sitemaps and crawl guidance
- https://paybench.net/sitemap.xml
- https://paybench.net/sitemaps/core/sitemap/0.xml
- https://paybench.net/sitemaps/salary/sitemap/0.xml
- https://paybench.net/sitemaps/freelance/sitemap/0.xml
- https://paybench.net/sitemaps/job-market/sitemap/0.xml
- https://paybench.net/robots.txt