Benchmark Startup Salary and Equity with YC's Job Board

Nowhere else publishes this many startup comp ranges in one place. Thirdwatch's YC Jobs Scraper reads Y Combinator's Work at a Startup board and returns every listing with the two fields job boards usually hide — salary range and equity range.

Skip the setup: Run this as a ready-to-go task on Apify — pre-loaded with the configuration from this guide.

Why benchmark compensation

Comp benchmarking for startups is normally anecdote and levels.fyi screenshots. The YC board publishes structured salary and equity ranges at scale — a real distribution, not a sample.

A full-board pull gives you salaryMin/salaryMax/equityMin/equityMax per role — group by roleType for the bands.

The scraper parses the board's embedded data, so every row arrives fully structured — comp ranges included.

How does this compare to the alternatives?

Why this Actor

• Salary AND equity ranges on every listing — the fields other boards hide.
• Company context bundled: batch, one-liner, logo, last-active date.
• Direct applyUrl per job — no intermediate listing page.
• Filter by free-text query or role type.
• Cheap and fast — the whole board in one HTTP run.

How to do it in 3 steps

Step 1: Configure the input

Set the inputs as shown below — query takes the targets, free-text filtering plus a role type filter; leave both empty for the full board.

Step 2: Run the Actor

Run it from the console, the API, or the linked saved task. One dataset row is written per job.

Step 3: Use the output

Each row carries the role plus company name, batch, one-liner, location, remote flag, salary range, equity range, and the apply URL.

{
  "maxJobs": 100
}

Each dataset row looks like:

{
  "jobId": "12345",
  "title": "Full-Stack Engineer",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/acme/jobs/12345",
  "applyUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/acme/jobs/12345",
  "companyName": "Acme",
  "companySlug": "acme",
  "companyBatch": "W24",
  "companyOneLiner": "APIs for logistics",
  "location": "Remote",
  "jobType": "full-time",
  "roleType": "engineering",
  "salaryMin": 140000,
  "salaryMax": 190000,
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "equityMin": 0.1,
  "equityMax": 0.5
}

What to watch for

Comp ranges are as published by each company — some listings omit salary or equity. The board only shows live postings, so expired roles disappear rather than aging out.

Related use cases

• Pull Every Engineering Role Across YC Startups
• Find Remote-Friendly Roles at YC Startups
• Track Product and Operations Roles at YC Companies
• Scan the YC Board for Junior-Friendly Roles
• All Thirdwatch use-case guides

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