What you should have known all along.
Salary negotiation in Nigeria has always been one-sided. Companies know exactly what they pay. You don’t.
That gap is where careers get undervalued — where offers get accepted too quickly, where a raise gets anchored to a number someone made up, and where good people leave money on the table for years without ever knowing it.
For a long time the question “what should I be earning?” had no real answer here. The internet existed. The group chats existed. Salary threads appeared on X, whisper networks formed on WhatsApp, communities quietly traded screenshots. All of it useful, and all of it fragile — anecdotal, unverified, and out of date within a year.
The market already knows what it pays. We think you should too.
The work
We collect verified salary submissions from Nigerian professionals across every major industry, level and city — and we pair them with what is already public: company career pages, disclosed pay ranges, published compensation reports and industry research.
Then we do the unglamorous part. Job titles get mapped to real roles. Company names get normalised, so GTB, GTBank and GTCO stop being three different employers. Pay structures get converted into one comparable figure. Every statistic gets a confidence score based on how much data actually stands behind it.
One platform, for what should always have been public knowledge: what Nigerian companies actually pay, by role, by level, by industry and by location.
Who it’s for
The professional who has sat through three interviews and never once felt confident about the number they named.
The founder who genuinely wants to pay fairly but has no benchmark to pay fairly against.
The HR lead trying to build a defensible salary structure in a market where nobody publishes anything.
How we protect people
Transparency about pay should never come at the cost of the person sharing it. You can contribute a salary without an account. Verification evidence, where someone offers it, is used once to confirm the submission is real and then discarded — never published.
We publish the numbers, not the people. The full detail of how that works is on our How It Works page, and the providers who touch any of it are listed on our sub-processors page.
Where we’re going
Nigeria is the starting point. As compensation data becomes infrastructure — searchable, comparable, machine-readable — the professionals and organisations with access to it will simply negotiate better than those without.
We’re building that infrastructure in the open, and it is free to use. OpenPay is a product of QuantumForge, built in Lagos.