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Salary band calculator

Enter the midpoint of your first and last salary bands. The calculator builds your complete salary band structure automatically, including the minimum, midpoint and maximum for each band. Each band progresses by percentage rather than by fixed dollar amounts, which keeps the structure balanced and sustainable as compensation increases.

Updated August 4, 2026

A 40 % spread means the bottom of a band sits 20 % under its midpoint and the top 20 % over. Between 30 and 50 % is the usual range. The wider the band, the longer somebody can progress without changing job.

Your structure

Enter your two midpoints to build the structure.

How this is calculated

Midpoints step up by a constant percentage. A $5,000 step is a big raise at the bottom of a structure and a rounding error at the top, so equal dollar steps compress the senior bands into each other. A constant percentage makes every step feel like the same size of move to the person taking it.

A structure does not roll itself out

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