About CaribSalaries

In most of the Caribbean, what a job pays is something you find out after you have accepted it. Ranges are left off the advert, bands go unpublished, and asking a colleague what they earn is treated as a breach of manners rather than an ordinary question about your own livelihood. The effect of all that discretion is one-sided: employers come to the table knowing what the market pays, and the person across from them is guessing. CaribSalaries exists to close that gap the only way it can actually be closed: by collecting what people are really paid and publishing it.

Everything here is self-reported, and every figure carries the number of reports behind it. One report is labelled as one report, never smoothed into a range that would imply more evidence than exists. That matters because this site is meant to be used rather than admired. If you are about to name a number in an interview, or weighing whether the offer in front of you is fair, or working up to asking for a raise, what you need is not a confident average built out of nothing. It is a real figure, and an honest account of how much weight it can hold.

The site covers the region rather than one country because the labour market already does. People move between Kingston, Port of Spain, Bridgetown, Nassau and Georgetown for work, companies recruit across all of them, and someone in Jamaica considering a role in Trinidad has almost nowhere to find out what that role pays there. Pooling reports across the Caribbean gives every country a fuller picture than it could build on its own. Every entry on the site is here because somebody chose to share what they earn so the next person negotiating would have more than a guess. That is the whole arrangement, and it only works if people keep their side of it.