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Hiring engineers by the numbers.

Free, ungated tools and benchmarks for hiring teams. Calibrated against active Re:Sourced searches across AI, software, data, cyber, cloud and forward-deployed engineering.

Salary Guide - 2026

Australian Tech Engineering Salary Guide 2026

Senior, staff and principal salary bands across six disciplines. Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and remote-first benchmarks. Permanent and contractor day rates.

Interactive · Live

Salary Checker

Drop in a role and seniority, get a calibrated band against current market data.

Quarterly · Live

Tech Hiring Pulse - Quarterly

Quarterly market report with original Re:Sourced placement data: time-to-close, offer acceptance, counter-offer rates by specialism.

Interactive · Live

Hiring Brief Builder

Turn a role into a first-draft job description and a structured interview scorecard, calibrated to the 2026 market. For hiring managers.

Interactive · Live

Am I Underpaid?

Check your current package against the 2026 market band for your role in 20 seconds. For engineers.

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Cost-to-Hire Calculator

The all-in employer cost of an engineer: base, superannuation, payroll tax and total comp by company stage.

Reference · Quarterly

The Salary Index

Every band we publish, charted: six disciplines and three levels across seven cities and four currencies.

Interactive · Live

Job Description Grader

Paste your advert and see the exact phrases costing you applications. Runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

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Day Rate vs Salary

What a contract rate is actually worth against a permanent offer, once super, leave and the weeks between contracts are counted. Both directions.

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Option Pool Calculator

What a pool costs the people who already own the company. Pre-money or post-money, the dilution nobody prices, and how many grants it actually holds.

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Equity Check

What a startup grant actually is: the percentage, the cost to exercise, and the exit price below which it returns nothing. No valuation, because nobody honestly has one.

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Counter-Offer Check

Your employer countered. See what that changes and what it leaves alone. No verdict, because we are not the ones who should be giving you it.

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Offer Acceptance Check

Score an offer before you send it, against the reasons engineers actually decline, and see what is costing you. Runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

Interactive · Live

Team Benchmark

Read your whole engineering team against market: who sits below band, what it costs to fix, where the pressure is. Runs in your browser; no pay data is uploaded.

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Cost of Vacancy Calculator

What an open engineering role costs while it stays open: per day, so far, and at 30, 60 and 90 days, on your own assumptions.