Tracking compensation drift in crypto-native middle-market hiring — with directional data, not absolute salaries.
An open-source dashboard that tracks the direction and magnitude of compensation changes in crypto-native middle-market job postings — without ever publishing a specific company's salary.
The Comp Index anchors to 100 on 2026-05-20 (the day data collection began). Each daily snapshot reports the index value + the percentage delta versus the trailing 7-day, 30-day, and 90-day averages. A 5-point rise tells you crypto-native comp is getting more expensive; a 5-point fall tells you the market is correcting. Absolute salary numbers are never published.
| Headline | What it means |
|---|---|
| Index > prior period | Crypto-native comp is rising — more expensive to hire |
| Index < prior period | Market correction — comp budgets contracting |
| Disclosure rate rises | More crypto companies posting salary ranges publicly |
| Disclosure rate falls | Comp transparency contracting |
Data begins 2026-05-20. The first 30 days will produce mostly-flat deltas — the canary becomes meaningful at 30 days, publishable as a trend at 90 days.
| Signal | Source | Frequency | What It Measures |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comp Index | Public job-board APIs (Greenhouse, Ashby) | Daily | p50 of disclosed comp_max, indexed to 2026-05-20 = 100 |
| Week-over-week delta | Daily snapshots | Daily | Index vs 7-day trailing average |
| Month-over-month delta | Daily snapshots | Daily | Index vs 30-day trailing average |
| 90-day delta | Daily snapshots | Daily | Index vs 90-day trailing average |
| Disclosure rate | Same job-board APIs | Daily | % of open listings that include comp range |
Every signal uses free, public data sources — no proprietary APIs, no paywalls.
- Direction, not absolutes. This canary publishes deltas + an indexed series. It never publishes specific salary numbers.
- Reproducible. Methodology is open. Anyone polling the same target list's public job-board APIs will compute similar deltas.
- Automated. Updated daily on a schedule. No human curation of the daily data.
- Honest about sample. Only 16% of crypto-native open listings include comp ranges today. The canary surfaces that disclosure rate as a meta-metric.
- Accessible. Single page. No login. No paywall. Mobile-friendly.
data/snapshots/ Versioned daily JSON snapshots (deltas + index value)
data/latest.json Most recent snapshot (what the dashboard reads)
docs/ Static dashboard (HTML/JS/CSS — GitHub Pages)
.github/workflows/ Automated refresh schedule
METHODOLOGY.md How every signal is computed, with sources + caveats
Data is generated by scanning a curated list of crypto-native middle-market companies' public job-board APIs, extracting disclosed comp ranges, and aggregating them into a daily index. The target list and aggregation code are maintained privately; only the indexed deltas and meta-metrics are published here. See METHODOLOGY.md for details.
Four signals from the crypto economy's nervous system:
- cfo-gap — Can crypto staff its finance orgs?
- crypto-tool-curve — Is purpose-built crypto-accounting tooling adopting?
- compliance-canary — Is crypto getting ready for regulation?
- comp-pulse — Which direction is crypto-native comp drifting?
Sibling to The Canaries: displacement-curve · stablecoin-signal · quantum-qanary.
MIT — see LICENSE.
— Jay Schulman · jayschulman.com